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Stephen Guy-Bray

@stephengb.bsky.social
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Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
First day of classes! My 46th year in university! I am old!
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here's another tenure-track job. This is for Canadian studies at Western University in London Ontario, the forest city. www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
uwo.ca
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026
jobs.utoronto.ca
Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature
Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's August now, so academics are frantically working on their course outlines for this year. If it's any consolation, I did mine three months ago. Hope this helps. 👍
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Seducing heiresses and then taking all their money and leaving. #MyHeritage
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I'm finally doing it, and by it I mean reading Clarel. So far I was struck by "In stony strait the scorch of noon." Anyway, wish me luck. #HotMelvilleSummer
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This plaque is next to my place. It commemorates a priest who in 1830 founded one of the first schools for deaf mutes in Italy "cui donava col canto la vita della parola" (to whom he gave with song the life of the word." I'm not sure what that means, but it's a lovely phrase. @jsfarr.bsky.social
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
While I am generally against the prison system, I support long sentences for the director, writers, and producers of "In the Hand of Dante."
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I'm getting emotional reading about Budapest Pride, the first under the new government. Tens of thousands of people marching through the centre of the city from the opera house and across the Erzsébet Bridge. I'm so happy. Boldog büszkeség napját, kedves magyar barátaimnak! 🏳️‍🌈🇭🇺
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride Month! Let the kinkening begin! #PrideMonth #Pride2026 #LGBTQ
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
When I was a little boy some adult asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up and I said "read poetry all day" and they said "that's not a job" and I said "I know, I'll think of something" but then I thought that maybe it could be a job and now that is my job and I couldn't be happier.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I'm just sitting at a bar reading and minding my own business and they've played that horrible "Let it go" TWICE in one hour. #WhyThisIsHellNorAmIOutOfIt
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I just got an email from my university informing me that they're expanding the role of AI. There's a "Learning Technology Innovation Centre" to "help faculty explore and apply AI in support of their teaching—from ideation to deployment." "ideation to deployment" ffs This is all so depressing.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I am so happy that the wretched Orbán lost in Hungary. Gratulálok Magyar Péternek. #OrbánEgyGeci
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Joe Brainard was born on this day in 1942. He died of AIDS in 1994. I first read his great book I Remember in high school. I was a bookish gay kid and he changed my life. Thank you, Joe. 💙
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Happy Valentine's Day! Here is a matchless quatrain from "The Ecstasy" by John Donne. When love with one another so Interinanimates two souls, That abler soul, which thence doth flow, Defects of loneliness controls.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Rudolf Nureyev cruised me at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He was so obvious even my father noticed.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
As a gay Canadian, I'm getting a lot of questions from Heated Rivalry fans, so here goes. Yes, I played hockey, but not often and not well. On the other hand, I was very good at floor hockey, although my career ended when I was banned for life for "excessive force." Now I'm a poetry specialist.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Hello fellow Canadians! Please sign this important petition supporting trans rights.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I just reread Roderick Hudson. I feel people don't appreciate how filthy Henry James could be. For instance: "I have only one way of expressing my deepest feelings--it's this." And he swung his tool. Total smut.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
"He ruin'd me, and I am re-begot / Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not."
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Worlds AIDS Day. I'm thinking again of Howard, dead so many years now. He was my first love.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Happy Wrong Thanksgiving to my neighbours in the melancholy republic to the south.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Here are two tenure-track jobs in the English Department at the University of Victoria: www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf... www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
uvic.ca
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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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
First day of teaching and we're under an air quality advisory because of the thick smoke from all the forest fires.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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...
msvu.ca
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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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Happy birthday to Herman Melville, 206 years young. Once again I say "harpoon me, Daddy."
picture of a great novelist smouldering lubriciously
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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"
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Just having a beer and a cigarette and thinking about Fanny Howe.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Happy Father's Day to my wonderful father, seen here with my sister and me, a tiny baby.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Two outhouses, both alike in shittiness. William Shakespeare
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy Pride Month to all! As we say at the poetics lab, you can't spell Pride Month without ODE. #praxis #themoreyouknow
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Thinking of my mother today. Here she is with my sister and me in 1970. Happy mothers' day!
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Yesterday I submitted my final marks so I'm giving everyone in the world the day off. Party on!🥂🥂
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Today in George Eliot news: my partner is rereading Middlemarch and I'm rereading Romola. This is as it should be.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The business class lounge at Boston airport was out of breakfast sausages. #WasEverGriefLikeMine
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
omg I have once again made perfect coq au vin
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I've decided to reassess and overhaul my perfume strategy. Thanks in advance for your support and patience.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The Making of a God
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Yesterday's dinner: roast chicken and potatoes roasted in chicken fat.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
🚨 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. 🇨🇦🇨🇦
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