THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY

A report by Oxfam, “UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need,” says that in 2025 the US was “indelibly shaped by concentrated wealth and power.”

[photo from ACLU] An article in this week’s High Country News highlights the mistreatment of a trans woman in Arizona’s Eloy Detention Center.

Dutifully, Trump holds up his July 13 directive dismantling two Utah national monuments.

A favorite album by one of my favorite musicians, Bill Frisell.

A shootout decided the Champions League final on Saturday, with PSG defeating Arsenal by one penalty kick (my photo of the TV coverage).

…for Sam Rushforth, the well-read botanist who, reading The Crossing by candlelight at 13,000 feet altitude while we were on the island of Taquile, Peru, experienced remarkable hallucinations in conjunction with Billy Parham’s experiences in the novel.

Six or seven months ago, while Alex was in the hospital being treated for breathing issues, I heard Trent and Alex talking about mail art.

Working to keep Alex close, I wrote this for a Canadian journal of poetry and poetics: periodicities.

Thomas Deichmann’s two-volume set has surfaced memories of a life-changing—a life-jolting—trip through the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a land and peoples sundered by civil wars catalyzed and exploited by nationalist leaders.