Brian U. Garrison
@bugthewriter.bsky.social
poet
he/him
president sfpoetry.org
managing editor eyetothetelescope.com
not nearly as young as I look in my picture
www.bugthewriter.com
Elgin Winner (3rd Place): Micropoetry for Microplanets
bugthewriter.etsy.com
he/him
president sfpoetry.org
managing editor eyetothetelescope.com
not nearly as young as I look in my picture
www.bugthewriter.com
Elgin Winner (3rd Place): Micropoetry for Microplanets
bugthewriter.etsy.com
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People are On Here begging for food. People are on the street begging for food. People are starving to death in the United States, in Sudan, in Palestine. And we're letting Elon Musk have A TRILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
People are On Here begging for food. People are on the street begging for food. People are starving to death in the United States, in Sudan, in Palestine. And we're letting Elon Musk have A TRILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.
See you on Nov 12! So excited to read with this all star lineup!
Electric Sheep Reading Series – SpecPo Hugo Edition!
November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)
Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem
Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)
Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem
Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
See you on Nov 12! So excited to read with this all star lineup!
For a group of folks who claim that it’s their sacred duty to uphold the law, ICE agents sure break it a lot.
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
For a group of folks who claim that it’s their sacred duty to uphold the law, ICE agents sure break it a lot.
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All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!
The fatal flaw in 2nd amendment exceptionalism is that most laws broken by tyrannical governments do not call for a murderous response.
October 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The fatal flaw in 2nd amendment exceptionalism is that most laws broken by tyrannical governments do not call for a murderous response.
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Wondering what’s going on with National Guard in Oregon? Here’s a quick timeline of the legal developments over the past week.
NOTE: This information is current as of Monday morning, October 6. We’ll continue to share updates as the situation evolves.
NOTE: This information is current as of Monday morning, October 6. We’ll continue to share updates as the situation evolves.
October 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Wondering what’s going on with National Guard in Oregon? Here’s a quick timeline of the legal developments over the past week.
NOTE: This information is current as of Monday morning, October 6. We’ll continue to share updates as the situation evolves.
NOTE: This information is current as of Monday morning, October 6. We’ll continue to share updates as the situation evolves.
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As a retired US Navy vet, if you are ordered to invade US homes, break their doors, zip-tie kids? - and you do that? YOu should read up on Neuremberg because those are NOT lawful orders, and you should be fucking ashamed of yourselves. Your families shoulid be ashamed of you. Stand the fuck up.
October 6, 2025 at 3:51 AM
As a retired US Navy vet, if you are ordered to invade US homes, break their doors, zip-tie kids? - and you do that? YOu should read up on Neuremberg because those are NOT lawful orders, and you should be fucking ashamed of yourselves. Your families shoulid be ashamed of you. Stand the fuck up.
stay out!
"Trump’s team has studied how to bypass district judges and court blocks. They are implementing a blueprint — the same blueprint I’ve been warning you about: Project 2025."
Breaking: Trump Defies Federal Judge — Federalizes California National Guard to Bypass Block in Portland
After a federal judge halted his Portland crackdown, Trump bypasses the courts and orders California’s Guard under federal control — a move insiders say is just the beginning.
levremembers.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
stay out!
The IRS does not recognize Portland as a combat zone. DO NOT SEND TROOPS.
www.irs.gov/individuals/...
www.irs.gov/individuals/...
Combat zones | Internal Revenue Service
Find combat zones recognized by the IRS for combat pay tax benefits.
www.irs.gov
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The IRS does not recognize Portland as a combat zone. DO NOT SEND TROOPS.
www.irs.gov/individuals/...
www.irs.gov/individuals/...
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Chapbook Category
First Place: The Inca Weaver's Tales • Katherine Quevedo • (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024)
Second Place: Water-Kin • @mahailasmith.ca • (Metatron Press, 2024)
Third Place: Micropoetry for Microplanets • @bugthewriter.bsky.social • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)
First Place: The Inca Weaver's Tales • Katherine Quevedo • (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024)
Second Place: Water-Kin • @mahailasmith.ca • (Metatron Press, 2024)
Third Place: Micropoetry for Microplanets • @bugthewriter.bsky.social • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)
October 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Chapbook Category
First Place: The Inca Weaver's Tales • Katherine Quevedo • (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024)
Second Place: Water-Kin • @mahailasmith.ca • (Metatron Press, 2024)
Third Place: Micropoetry for Microplanets • @bugthewriter.bsky.social • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)
First Place: The Inca Weaver's Tales • Katherine Quevedo • (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024)
Second Place: Water-Kin • @mahailasmith.ca • (Metatron Press, 2024)
Third Place: Micropoetry for Microplanets • @bugthewriter.bsky.social • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)
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Congratulations! I just love this book.
We don't have a government, but I've got an award!
My chapbook scored 3rd for the 2025 Elgin Award.
I'm excited to be on the list with so many excellent writers.
My chapbook scored 3rd for the 2025 Elgin Award.
I'm excited to be on the list with so many excellent writers.
October 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Congratulations! I just love this book.
We don't have a government, but I've got an award!
My chapbook scored 3rd for the 2025 Elgin Award.
I'm excited to be on the list with so many excellent writers.
My chapbook scored 3rd for the 2025 Elgin Award.
I'm excited to be on the list with so many excellent writers.
October 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We don't have a government, but I've got an award!
My chapbook scored 3rd for the 2025 Elgin Award.
I'm excited to be on the list with so many excellent writers.
My chapbook scored 3rd for the 2025 Elgin Award.
I'm excited to be on the list with so many excellent writers.
Views from Portland on Saturday. Skateboarding. Solar Panels. Electric-powered lawn care.
No military intervention needed.
ICE GO HOME.
No military intervention needed.
ICE GO HOME.
September 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Views from Portland on Saturday. Skateboarding. Solar Panels. Electric-powered lawn care.
No military intervention needed.
ICE GO HOME.
No military intervention needed.
ICE GO HOME.
L.A. stood strong and Portland will too! Terrible decisions continue by the so-called U.S. Department of War, pointing the cannons at its own citizens. Enjoy this lovely poem by @gwynnega.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force
our purple clouds of delight rise above your tear gas
strangehorizons.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
L.A. stood strong and Portland will too! Terrible decisions continue by the so-called U.S. Department of War, pointing the cannons at its own citizens. Enjoy this lovely poem by @gwynnega.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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It's @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social weekend!
On Sunday at 3pm Eastern, come listen to @akualezlihope.bsky.social, @dianadima.com, @yarntheory.bsky.social and yours truly, led by moderator @bugthewriter.bsky.social, as we chat about speculative poetry!
FoF is online & free! Register here:
On Sunday at 3pm Eastern, come listen to @akualezlihope.bsky.social, @dianadima.com, @yarntheory.bsky.social and yours truly, led by moderator @bugthewriter.bsky.social, as we chat about speculative poetry!
FoF is online & free! Register here:
Registration – Flights of Foundry
flights-of-foundry.org
September 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It's @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social weekend!
On Sunday at 3pm Eastern, come listen to @akualezlihope.bsky.social, @dianadima.com, @yarntheory.bsky.social and yours truly, led by moderator @bugthewriter.bsky.social, as we chat about speculative poetry!
FoF is online & free! Register here:
On Sunday at 3pm Eastern, come listen to @akualezlihope.bsky.social, @dianadima.com, @yarntheory.bsky.social and yours truly, led by moderator @bugthewriter.bsky.social, as we chat about speculative poetry!
FoF is online & free! Register here:
I'll be at Flights of Foundry this weekend, the free online conference. Go register!
September 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I'll be at Flights of Foundry this weekend, the free online conference. Go register!
where is due process?
Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
In immigration news, hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have disappeared.
www.democracynow.org
September 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
where is due process?
Some thoughts I plan to share with my Senators. Feel free to reuse and send to anyone who may need to hear.
September 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Some thoughts I plan to share with my Senators. Feel free to reuse and send to anyone who may need to hear.
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"The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident."
a man talking to another man with the words so much going wrong so much to say and all of it happening so quickly below him
Alt: Karis Nemik telling Cassian Andor, "So much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly" on the TV show Andor.
media.tenor.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident."
He went over the edge a long time ago. The failure of US leadership becomes more absurd every day.
September 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
He went over the edge a long time ago. The failure of US leadership becomes more absurd every day.
Small Wonders loved the chemistry in my poem so much they wanted to publish it! Read it at their site.
Take a break today for whimsy, somewhat mad science, and cats. Discover the secret ingredients in "Dr. Hypha's Laboratory" by Brian U. Garrison:
Dr. Hypha’s Laboratory - Small Wonders
Fickle as ethyl. Explosive as magnesium. / The alchemist's cats are noble but scrappy.
smallwondersmag.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Small Wonders loved the chemistry in my poem so much they wanted to publish it! Read it at their site.
Listening to Space River, among other songs by Priya Darshini. Discovered from my continuing obsession with Max ZT on hammer dulcimer.
youtu.be/_z1u1Bz221o
youtu.be/_z1u1Bz221o
Priya Darshini - Space River
YouTube video by Chesky Records
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Listening to Space River, among other songs by Priya Darshini. Discovered from my continuing obsession with Max ZT on hammer dulcimer.
youtu.be/_z1u1Bz221o
youtu.be/_z1u1Bz221o
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Glad the vice president of the United States, whose salary my taxes fund, is using his position to *checks notes* attack me on the Charlie Kirk show.
September 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Glad the vice president of the United States, whose salary my taxes fund, is using his position to *checks notes* attack me on the Charlie Kirk show.
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When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.