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Matthew Goulish
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writer teacher dramaturg Every house has a door
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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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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...
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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
bit.ly/480I9ky
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...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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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!
We've got a healthy group line up for my 8-week More Than Self creative nonfiction zoom workshop starting next week. We're reading Teju Cole, Annie Dillard, Daniel Saldaña París, Joan Didion, Daisy Atterbury & others. A few more would be welcome. Join? Share?

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8-Week: More Than Self—Creative Nonfiction
In this eight-week critique-based workshop, we'll consider ways to balance personal stories with other modes of writing, from researched history, to politics and theory, and everything in between. Wha...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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Every house has a door
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October 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
"The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts."
October 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
they cover their faces when they intend to break the law
September 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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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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…
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September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
reflections lie proclaim dictators as they ban mirrors
September 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
do deportations smell? I don't get it
September 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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
August 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
at Art Institute of Chicago: 25-year drawing (1960-1985) in fabricated charcoal on paper by Myron Stout—not something you see everyday
July 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
thank you Kyle
there are for me very, very few writers whose every new work lands as an occasion to eradicate everything else, find a seat, and then follow wherever he goes.
July 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
read my essay *Seven degrees of silence* in current issue of Inscriptions international philosophy journal
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View of Seven degrees of silence
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July 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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
July 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Every house has a door newsletter #6.2: What can performance do?
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Every house has a door
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July 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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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
July 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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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Portable Gray | Vol 8, No 1
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July 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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.
July 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“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."
June 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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
June 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
June 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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***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
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May 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
tomorrow = Tuesday May 20th 2025
May 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Lin and I are here in Boston speaking tomorrow hosted by the mighty ds4si bit.ly/3SH0nQG
Beyond Composition and Collapse with Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish
We invite you into thinking beyond the binary through this panel series.
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May 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Here'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.
May 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
TRUST NO ONE
Starting off a brief break from school by going to a lovely event 🙂‍↕️✨ by @matthewgoulish.bsky.social and Karla Kelsey :]
May 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM