Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026thank you Chris Reeves for including my work Reliable Narrator in “If - If - If-” exhibition at The Plan opening today 6:00 PM 610 N. Albany Ave Chicago 000
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I will be one of the readers of Hamza Walker's words at this book launch performance event with music bit.ly/3TjNOPkbit.lyHamza Walker: The Renaissance Society Years | Events: Book Launch | The Renaissance SocietyThe Renaissance Society is a contemporary art museum free and open to the public. 020
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Odysseus took advantage of insatiable Trojan appetite for flattery and praise 000
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 12/08/2026challenging selfie angle for gratifying OPC Sky Room moment after years of introducing students to Idris Khan’s photography 000
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 04/08/2026finished reading This Poor Book immediately missing Fanny Howe “It’s as if words are remnants of thoughts that can’t be caught.” @graywolfpress.bsky.social 010
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I’m no Odyssey purist but the counting sheep strategy confused and disappointed that the escape from the cave of Polyphemus did not resemble the one in the Art Institute of Chicago 000
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Royal March of the Lion--performance by Every house has a door and Essi Kausalainen 2 matinees at Constellation Chicago, 2PM Saturday and Sunday July 25 and 26 bit.ly/4fOkdVFbit.lyEvery house has a door 031
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 21/06/2026assembling replacement step stool that has appeared in every performance for past 9 years—getting choreography ideas 001
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 24/05/2026the pope don't work cuz the vandals took the candles 100
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 12/05/2026there will be other sunsets—there will be one every day—but this one will not repeat 131
Reposted by Matthew GoulishKyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026i'm teaching my sentence writing / being a human class on the morning of Saturday, May 30. at the risk of boasting people tend to really quite like this class 0106
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026rehearsing the elephant--Every house has a door newsletter #7.1 bit.ly/3PcNJLbbit.lyEvery house has a door 000
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 11/04/2026current obsession thank you @floodeditions.bsky.social 041
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 12/03/2026here in IL 7th Congressional District awoke to four Friedman yard signs installed overnight without permission in greenway—disposed of them—voting today for Dr. Thomas Fisher @tfishermd.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Matthew GoulishNeil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 11/02/2026My column in the Sun-Times today: www.everygoddamnday.com/2026/02/phil...everygoddamnday.com'None of us can do everything. But all of us can do something'The retired "Chicago Tonight" host decided he must speak directly to Latino ICE agents about their involvement in the deportation campaign. 0175
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Books read 2025 / 4 of 4 Ohio Railroads by C. S. Giscombe Off Shore by Penelope Fitzgerald The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls James by Percival Everett Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton Gratitude by Oliver Sacks 140
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Books read 2025 / 3 of 4 Training Exercises by Danny Hayward Bowling with Corpses by Mike Mignola George’s Daughter by Carol Becker Penitential Cries by Susan Howe North Woods by Daniel Mason Séance of the Bees by Andrea Rexilius Vaim by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls 000
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Books read 2025 / 2 of 4 Playground by Richard Powers Black Box Syndrome by Jose-Luis Moctezuma The Magicians by Blex Bolex Leaving Emmaus by Anthony D. Baker We Do Not Part by Han Kang, tr. E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris TOAF by Renee Gladman Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse 010
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Books read 2025 / 1 of 4 Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman White Holes by Carlo Rovelli, tr. Simon Carnell The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life by Brian Massumi Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy by Karla Kelsey 230
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 22/12/2025to the lions in winter--Every house has a door newsletter #6.3 bit.ly/48OaLiGbit.lyEvery house has a door 000
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 05/12/2025morning up from train at Monroe Dearborn corner greeted by sublime Inland Steel on my way to teach class Gehry’s “Icehenge” security desk shipwrecked in lobby ambushes every time with its eternal reminder: avoid doing something idiotic today 010
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I am reading alongside Patrick Morrissey and Ed Roberson at Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 E. Locust Street Milwaukee WI 2PM Saturday December 6 attend in person or remotely bit.ly/480I9kybit.lyReading and Conversation: Ed Roberson, Matthew Goulish, and Patrick Morrissey *HYBRID*Join us for a reading and conversation with Ed Roberson, author of Asked What Has Changed (Wesleyan University Press, 2021), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize; Matthew Goulish, author of Kingfis... 020
Reposted by Matthew GoulishKyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025this starts Thursday and we're up to eight students. a good healthy group size, you'll agree, but also there's room for one or two more. thank you for sharing! 052
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Junkology a collaborative work of interactive sculpture and performance by Fari Shams and Every house has a door at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf tomorrow Sunday October 12 at 2:30 PM bit.ly/3W0zqcEbit.lyEvery house has a door 000
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 06/10/2025"The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts." 000
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 30/09/2025they cover their faces when they intend to break the law 030
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I am reading alongside Danny Hayward at Housmans Bookshop in London 7PM Wednesday October 15 thank you both are worse press bit.ly/4mzUWQbbit.lyDOUBLE LAUNCH: Danny Hayward AND Matthew GoulishHousmans and both are worse are delighted to be launching two new excellent essay collections, Training Exercises by Danny Hayward and Kingfisher by Matthew Goulish. ‘both are worse’ pu… 030
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 18/09/2025reflections lie proclaim dictators as they ban mirrors 110
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 25/08/2025finally told Dario how much I miss coming to his restaurant since my doctor told me I had to stop eating pasta—he was very understanding—told me I needed a new doctor 010
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 28/07/2025at Art Institute of Chicago: 25-year drawing (1960-1985) in fabricated charcoal on paper by Myron Stout—not something you see everyday 170
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 16/07/2025read my essay *Seven degrees of silence* in current issue of Inscriptions international philosophy journal bit.ly/3GFKF6ebit.lyView of Seven degrees of silenceinscriptions, journal, academic, arts, philosophy, archaeology, culture, critique, psycho-analysis, live-feed | journal of philosophy, art and psycho-analysis | www.tankebanen.no/inscriptions 110
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 15/07/2025returning to practice this summer derived from Oliver Sacks—celebrating birthdays with sample of element sharing atomic number with age—younger friend receives ampule of argon older friend of mercury 010
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Every house has a door newsletter #6.2: What can performance do? bit.ly/4m6IyaLbit.lyEvery house has a door 010
Reposted by Matthew GoulishThe Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 09/07/2025We at the Review mourn the loss of Fanny Howe (1940-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/YtQzXpd 211246
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Dried ketchup drips from a dragged-out wall. Lin Hixson and I collaboratively composed our contribution to the Portable Gray issue Pope.L The Chicago Years bit.ly/4eCuBPfbit.lyPortable Gray | Vol 8, No 1 031
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I find this email inappropriate, coming from the SSA, for too many reasons to explain, but mostly because of its partisan position. It is also misleading about the legislation to which it refers. Please send an apology and retraction to everyone who received this email. 010
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 28/06/2025“Given its conduct in these proceedings, the government’s posture resembles that of the arsonist who calls 911 to report firefighters for violating a local noise ordinance." 010
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 14/06/2025the king in the act of dreaming—when church and state are one, absolute sovereign infallible, unconstrained by human forces, enemy unspecified: a shape with lion body and the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless, the difficulty to think at the end of day, when the shapeless shadow covers the sun 062
Reposted by Matthew GoulishJonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 16/05/2025***GIVEAWAY*** This signed/stamped Advance Readers Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, forthcoming Nov 2025 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social! Like=1 entry, Share=1 entry, Like + Share=2 entries. Will randomly select winner on Friday, May 23, 2025. US addresses only. Preorder info: shorturl.at/OXr0Z #booksky 67640
Matthew Goulish @matthewgoulish.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Lin and I are here in Boston speaking tomorrow hosted by the mighty ds4si bit.ly/3SH0nQGbit.lyBeyond Composition and Collapse with Lin Hixson and Matthew GoulishWe invite you into thinking beyond the binary through this panel series. 000
Reposted by Matthew GoulishKyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Here's one easy and local way to resist the march of antihuman tech. Make a practice of writing sentences. DM for info or write kylebeachy at gmail to reserve a spot. I believe in this weekend course as much as I believe in just about anything. 0166
