Stephen Guy-Bray
@stephengb.bsky.social
Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Here are two tenure-track jobs in the English Department at the University of Victoria:
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ENGL 250-106 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
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September 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Here are two tenure-track jobs in the English Department at the University of Victoria:
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First day of teaching and we're under an air quality advisory because of the thick smoke from all the forest fires.
September 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
First day of teaching and we're under an air quality advisory because of the thick smoke from all the forest fires.
Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone.
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Full-time Academic positions
Inspired by a strong tradition of social responsibility and an enduring commitment to the advancement of women, Mount Saint Vincent University promotes academic excellence and the pursuit of knowledge...
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August 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone.
www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...
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Happy birthday to Herman Melville, 206 years young. Once again I say "harpoon me, Daddy."
August 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Happy birthday to Herman Melville, 206 years young. Once again I say "harpoon me, Daddy."
Last night was rather a blur, but when I woke up I saw that I had written METAPOETICS in block capitals on a piece of paper so it's on now.
July 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Last night was rather a blur, but when I woke up I saw that I had written METAPOETICS in block capitals on a piece of paper so it's on now.
Today I visited the memorial to John Milton, the greatest poet in English and one of my greatest joys since I was a teenager.
"not to me returns / Day"
"not to me returns / Day"
July 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Today I visited the memorial to John Milton, the greatest poet in English and one of my greatest joys since I was a teenager.
"not to me returns / Day"
"not to me returns / Day"
Irish pizza! Bacon, mushrooms, sausage, black & white pudding (a rather dull meat product that they love), and an egg. Yes, an egg. Wish me luck. #CulinaryAdventurer #GastronomicAudacity
July 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Irish pizza! Bacon, mushrooms, sausage, black & white pudding (a rather dull meat product that they love), and an egg. Yes, an egg. Wish me luck. #CulinaryAdventurer #GastronomicAudacity
My hotel lobby is full of brides and bridesmaids and in the park across from my hotel there's a very loud hippy drumming circle. #WhyThisIsHellNorAmIOutOfIt #WasEverGriefLikeMine
July 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
My hotel lobby is full of brides and bridesmaids and in the park across from my hotel there's a very loud hippy drumming circle. #WhyThisIsHellNorAmIOutOfIt #WasEverGriefLikeMine
Just having a beer and a cigarette and thinking about Fanny Howe.
July 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Just having a beer and a cigarette and thinking about Fanny Howe.
Happy Father's Day to my wonderful father, seen here with my sister and me, a tiny baby.
June 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Happy Father's Day to my wonderful father, seen here with my sister and me, a tiny baby.
Two outhouses, both alike in shittiness.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
June 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Two outhouses, both alike in shittiness.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Happy Pride Month to all! As we say at the poetics lab, you can't spell Pride Month without ODE. #praxis #themoreyouknow
June 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Happy Pride Month to all! As we say at the poetics lab, you can't spell Pride Month without ODE. #praxis #themoreyouknow
Thinking of my mother today. Here she is with my sister and me in 1970. Happy mothers' day!
May 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thinking of my mother today. Here she is with my sister and me in 1970. Happy mothers' day!
Yesterday I submitted my final marks so I'm giving everyone in the world the day off. Party on!🥂🥂
May 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Yesterday I submitted my final marks so I'm giving everyone in the world the day off. Party on!🥂🥂
Today in George Eliot news: my partner is rereading Middlemarch and I'm rereading Romola. This is as it should be.
April 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Today in George Eliot news: my partner is rereading Middlemarch and I'm rereading Romola. This is as it should be.
why did I call my paper on Fulke Greville "Learning From Cupid" when I could have called it "Do You Want To Fulke" I'm so stupid
April 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
why did I call my paper on Fulke Greville "Learning From Cupid" when I could have called it "Do You Want To Fulke" I'm so stupid
The business class lounge at Boston airport was out of breakfast sausages. #WasEverGriefLikeMine
March 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The business class lounge at Boston airport was out of breakfast sausages. #WasEverGriefLikeMine
Just overheard at my hotel bar: "I said to them for the honeymoon you can go to Italy or you can go to hell." Words to live by really.
March 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Just overheard at my hotel bar: "I said to them for the honeymoon you can go to Italy or you can go to hell." Words to live by really.
omg I have once again made perfect coq au vin
March 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
omg I have once again made perfect coq au vin
I've decided to reassess and overhaul my perfume strategy. Thanks in advance for your support and patience.
March 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I've decided to reassess and overhaul my perfume strategy. Thanks in advance for your support and patience.
I just saw an old friend at a restaurant here & I was so happy & looking forward to talking to him again & then I realized it was just someone who looked very much like David as David died almost forty years ago from AIDS. So I'm an idiot but I still cried. It never ends.
February 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I just saw an old friend at a restaurant here & I was so happy & looking forward to talking to him again & then I realized it was just someone who looked very much like David as David died almost forty years ago from AIDS. So I'm an idiot but I still cried. It never ends.
I received an invitation to submit a paper for a medical conference because of my "expertise in gynecology." For the first time ever I have impostor syndrome.
February 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I received an invitation to submit a paper for a medical conference because of my "expertise in gynecology." For the first time ever I have impostor syndrome.
The Making of a God
The Big Bang Theory 😂😂🤭
February 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Making of a God
Happy Valentine's Day to all my bluesky paramours. It's time for this poem again:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm Stephen Guy-Bray,
You should be too.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm Stephen Guy-Bray,
You should be too.
February 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Happy Valentine's Day to all my bluesky paramours. It's time for this poem again:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm Stephen Guy-Bray,
You should be too.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm Stephen Guy-Bray,
You should be too.
I'm thrilled to have a piece in this excellent collection. And look at that cover photo! I wrote about myself, parataxis, Frank O'Hara, Joe Brainard, and Joshua Garcia, a young contemporary poet living in New York.
January 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm thrilled to have a piece in this excellent collection. And look at that cover photo! I wrote about myself, parataxis, Frank O'Hara, Joe Brainard, and Joshua Garcia, a young contemporary poet living in New York.