Matthew Goulish

'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.

My column in the Sun-Times today:

www.everygoddamnday.com/2026/02/phil...

Books 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

Books 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

Books 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

Books 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

"panjandrums"

mgouli@artic.edu

to the lions in winter--Every house has a door newsletter #6.3
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morning 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

tomorrow

Reading 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...

I 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
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this 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!

Junkology 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
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"The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts."

they cover their faces when they intend to break the law

DOUBLE LAUNCH: Danny Hayward AND Matthew Goulish Housmans 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…

I am reading alongside Danny Hayward at Housmans Bookshop in London 7PM Wednesday October 15 thank you both are worse press

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reflections lie proclaim dictators as they ban mirrors

do deportations smell? I don't get it

finally 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

at Art Institute of Chicago: 25-year drawing (1960-1985) in fabricated charcoal on paper by Myron Stout—not something you see everyday

thank you Kyle

read my essay *Seven degrees of silence* in current issue of Inscriptions international philosophy journal
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returning 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

Every house has a door newsletter #6.2: What can performance do?
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We 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

Portable Gray | Vol 8, No 1

Dried 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
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I 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.

“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."

the 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