We are opening up our amazing Artist in Residence fellowship again. If you know any formerly incarcerated artists or artists otherwise directly impacted by state repression, please share. It's an incredible opportunity with a wonderful organization. civilrightscorps.org/artist-in-re...
Listen to my interview with Ani DiFranco, following her Unprecedented Sh!t tour and looking ahead to the release of her next book, The Spirit of Ani, with Lauren Coyle Rosen. aidanmryan.substack.com/p/15-the-unp...
This is the last week to see CINDY SUFFOLETTO at WNYBAC. Stop by on Saturday, 11am-2pm, for my conversation with Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar and author of an excellent essay on Suffoletto's work (which you can pick up at WNYBAC). wnybookarts.org/cindy-suffol...
New interview with @equalityalec.bsky.social up this morning -- we talk about his work with Civil Rights Corps, the history of plea bargaining, the body camera con, the ICE budget, and much more. Listen: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/13-copagan...
My conversation with Martin Gurri, author of The Revolt of the Public aidanmryan.substack.com/p/12-the-rev...
The Orwell quote we've all remembered slightly misses what's going on with MAGA shitposters right now. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
People asking me for an audiobook. I can't do that myself (but would gladly work with a publisher). Here's a teaser: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/11-america...
Recognizing MAGA as a revolution might help the rest of us discern a counterrevolutionary path forward. Thoughts on Iran and Minneapolis, from London and Paris: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
Thanks for explaining this, Nick, I likely would have missed the context without this thread. It does seem like PF could have explained this to the reporter. Are they so cowed by 6 years of demands from the "poetry community" that they don't trust themselves to stray from a holding statement?
Absolutely loving the emergence of Blindboy's new interest in radio voice, documentary cadences, town criers, jazz poetry, early vinyl, and how these inheritances play out in podcast production. open.spotify.com/episode/5ZI3...
Joined Rachelle on The Desire Question - hear us on desire in art, intimacy + privacy + audience, balancing each other's priorities, and more - across Hell Yeah, I Am Here You Are Not I Love You, and our lives. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
Coming to the PNW--Friday in Seattle and Saturday in Portland.
Reading Cory Doctorow's Enshittification and hanging out in NYC on election night got me thinking about why so many things are incentivized to suck -- and what we might do to change them.
open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
The Buffalo History Museum asked me to write an episode for their excellent podcast on the local spiritualist and lawyer Edward C. Randall. He believed the dead have never died. Check it out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
I'm back at it! If you enjoyed the last episode about Buffalo's Ezra Pound, check out this bonus episode with musings, corrections, and extended cuts from my conversation with Pound scholars Josh Kotin and Bob Spoo. aidanmryan.substack.com/p/09-bonus-e...
New episode up now. I set out to understand how and why Ezra Pound's final published poem ended up in an obscure magazine in Buffalo. The whole story was bigger and weirder than I could have imagined. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
Massive investigation dropping Monday. Subscribers get an early look. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
Rachelle Toarmino by Lucy K Shaw: zonamotel.substack.com/p/profile-he...
A devastating loss. Thank you for introducing so many of us to his work.
Jon Cone reviews Franz Wright's At His Desk In The Past in Rain Taxi: raintaxi.com/at-his-desk-...
If you missed last month's live panel discussion in Cleveland featuring Madeline McDonnell, Caryl Pagel, Zach Savich, and me ... listen! aidanmryan.substack.com/p/07-i-am-he...
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Let me know if you visit and can confirm
Yep! this conversation is with Leo Lensing and James McWilliams
Gearing up for Cleveland, Sept. 13, where I'll speak with Zach Savich, Caryl Pagel, and Madeline McDonnell about research and the collision of creative and critical practices.
Why did some of Ezra Pound's final cantos first appear in print in Buffalo (a full year BEFORE the unauthorized Ed Sanders Fuck You Press publication)? Why did this happen twice, in TWO of Buffalo's little magazines? I'll be trying to sort this out on my Substack in the weeks ahead. Follow along.
Deeply grateful for this review from John Haber, who launched the first website for art criticism and history right around the time Cindy gave up her studio. Here he gives her some of the context she was missing then, comparing her work to Arshile Gorky.
www.haberarts.com/topolski.htm
Listen to James McWilliams and Leo Lensing on the life and poetry of Frank Stanford - recorded live in Buffalo, NY. open.spotify.com/episode/5FOW...
