Stephen Guy-Bray
@stephengb.bsky.social
Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
It's so wonderful so I write it like this for my students
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's so wonderful so I write it like this for my students
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."
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
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.
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!
The magnolia tree outside my balcony is about to flower!
March 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The magnolia tree outside my balcony is about to flower!
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'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.
Yesterday's dinner: roast chicken and potatoes roasted in chicken fat.
January 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Yesterday's dinner: roast chicken and potatoes roasted in chicken fat.
🚨 Culinary Update 🚨
I'm using the ham bone from Chr*stm*S dinner to make soup. Tomorrow this will be the best split pea soup in the world. 🇨🇦🇨🇦
I'm using the ham bone from Chr*stm*S dinner to make soup. Tomorrow this will be the best split pea soup in the world. 🇨🇦🇨🇦
December 31, 2024 at 7:58 PM
🚨 Culinary Update 🚨
I'm using the ham bone from Chr*stm*S dinner to make soup. Tomorrow this will be the best split pea soup in the world. 🇨🇦🇨🇦
I'm using the ham bone from Chr*stm*S dinner to make soup. Tomorrow this will be the best split pea soup in the world. 🇨🇦🇨🇦
Yesterday's dinner. I baked ham in a bourbon & maple syrup glaze and served it with this lovely rosé.
December 26, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Yesterday's dinner. I baked ham in a bourbon & maple syrup glaze and served it with this lovely rosé.
Despite what this unhinged, far right, Zionist poster on X says, I think I am clearly Canada's greatest professor.
December 13, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Despite what this unhinged, far right, Zionist poster on X says, I think I am clearly Canada's greatest professor.
Trying to persuade my first-year students that studying fiction is fun.
November 30, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Trying to persuade my first-year students that studying fiction is fun.
The mother ship (Robards Library at the University of Toronto).
November 14, 2024 at 2:52 AM
The mother ship (Robards Library at the University of Toronto).
A student had this Barthes mug made for me and you need to see it. Attn @barthesstudies.bsky.social
October 15, 2024 at 6:06 PM
A student had this Barthes mug made for me and you need to see it. Attn @barthesstudies.bsky.social
Beautiful rhododendron & azalea by my balcony.
May 8, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Beautiful rhododendron & azalea by my balcony.
Goose leg, salt potatoes, and red cabbage cooked with vinegar, caraway, and champagne.
March 31, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Goose leg, salt potatoes, and red cabbage cooked with vinegar, caraway, and champagne.
In rushing so early in the spring to put on flowers before everything else, the magnolia demonstrates one variety of queerness.
March 19, 2024 at 2:16 PM
In rushing so early in the spring to put on flowers before everything else, the magnolia demonstrates one variety of queerness.
I'm sharing the meme I made. It's true!
March 11, 2024 at 3:13 PM
I'm sharing the meme I made. It's true!
I'm obsessed by this sign. I have no desire to know what it means.
February 15, 2024 at 2:24 PM
I'm obsessed by this sign. I have no desire to know what it means.
Amazing pub ceiling in Liverpool.
December 15, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Amazing pub ceiling in Liverpool.
Oldest selfie in my phone. Budapest 2014.
December 7, 2023 at 4:47 PM
Oldest selfie in my phone. Budapest 2014.
