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‘America, behold’ / A year of Bupkes / Return of the reading

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This month, The Bupkes publishes ‘America, behold’ – probably M. E. Grey’s most substantial, timely work since Pages of an Autumn Journal in 2016.

This makes a year of monthly contributions in The Bupkes – spanning menswear, an empty chair, beachfront real estate, home decor, a railway pub, and so on. Or seen another way, data security, the meaning of The New Yorker, Gaza, Ukraine, the far right – and so on.

Meanwhile, this month – and specifically Friday 27 March – sees the return of what was once referred to as The Saturday Night Reading, but last time it took place on a Sunday (and then a pandemic happened), so that name was already defunct. And a few things have happened since then. Let’s just call it a reading. Gabriele Pedrini will graciously return as host, and the evening will include readings by Deborah O’Donoghue and William Noah Glucroft, and of ‘Howl’ by Allan Ginsberg – published 70 years ago this year. It also turns out to be the wonderful Frank O’Hara’s actual 100th birthday – so a glass will certainly be raised in his memory too. For more information, please contact M E Grey via the contact form on this website.

Contributor contributing contributions: poems in The Bupkes

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Work by M. E. Grey is featuring irregularly in satirical zine The Bupkes. ‘Snack (Austrian Airlines)‘ was published in March, and ‘Bad threads‘ was published today. Future publications depend on, among other things, the existence of the future.

The Bupkes launched in October 2024 and is running as a Substack. A subscription offers you “a front-row seat to the confounding nothingness that is the everything of our era.”

Taxi poems published by Eurolitkrant

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Remember taxis? A regular feature of professional and personal life for many – and then absent from those same lives since early 2020. M. E. Grey has selected a series of poems featuring taxis for publication in Eurolitkrant:

  • taxi driver
  • NY AIRPORT PICKUP SATELLITE RADIO JAZZ
  • Through the bois after nightfall
  • Relation to an abstract shape
  • taxi poem
  • walking poem

Eurolitkrant is an interdisciplinary, European, online literary journal recently launched by Ali Bader.

Citizens of Everywhere publishes ‘Power Mediated: Three Poems from Brussels’

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The Citizens of Everywhere project, from the Centre for New & International Writing at the University of Liverpool, has published a blog piece by M E Grey, including three poems examining different ways that political or bureaucratic power can be discussed, and challenged or valued, in poetry.

The Citizens of Everywhere project is commissioning writers, artists, scientists, academics, cultural organisers and more to write for the Guardian and the Conversation. Their blog also provides a home for writers tackling issues related to citizenship, belonging and borders in the aftermath of Theresa May’s ‘citizens of nowhere’ speech in October 2016. Content ranges from reflections on the borderless nature of plastic waste, to work on the linguistics of politics that is ripe for rediscovery.