Stephen Guy-Bray
stephengb.bsky.social
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
Happy birthday to Herman Melville, 206 years young. Once again I say "harpoon me, Daddy."
August 1, 2025 at 4:09 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"
July 17, 2025 at 12:42 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
July 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Just having a beer and a cigarette and thinking about Fanny Howe.
July 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
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
The magnolia tree outside my balcony is about to flower!
March 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
omg I have once again made perfect coq au vin
March 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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
Yesterday's dinner: roast chicken and potatoes roasted in chicken fat.
January 20, 2025 at 5:10 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. 🇨🇦🇨🇦
December 31, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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
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
Trying to persuade my first-year students that studying fiction is fun.
November 30, 2024 at 6:36 PM
The mother ship (Robards Library at the University of Toronto).
November 14, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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
Beautiful rhododendron & azalea by my balcony.
May 8, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Goose leg, salt potatoes, and red cabbage cooked with vinegar, caraway, and champagne.
March 31, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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
I'm sharing the meme I made. It's true!
March 11, 2024 at 3:13 PM
I'm obsessed by this sign. I have no desire to know what it means.
February 15, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Amazing pub ceiling in Liverpool.
December 15, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Oldest selfie in my phone. Budapest 2014.
December 7, 2023 at 4:47 PM
Remembering when I gave my first talk at UBC. I called it "Poetry is Hard" because that's what students always say, but I used this picture of me with a glass of wine and a cigarette for the poster to show that my life was still fun. #praxis #pedagogy
November 19, 2023 at 5:52 PM