George Murray

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Poet | 10 books | Neuromancer | Dog person | Habitual founder of things | Nerd | St. John's | http://newpoetry.ca | Other links: https://linktr.ee/georgemurray

Screencap of entry from Submittable showing an opened submission of poems to the New Yorker dated July 1, 2024.
Screen cap of today's spelling bee, with the word FRIGGING identified as "not in word list."
Nyt spelling bee board with "illin" marked as "Not in word list".
Social media poster for Summer Poetry Course July 2 - 11 at St. Peter's Abbey in Muenster, SK, facilitated by George Murray.
Tattoo on left forearm of a wagon trailing a rope. From Calvin and Hobbes.
Screen cap of spelling bee game in which the word Conan is flagged as not being in the word list.
A photo of the entrance to the Kafka Museum in Prague.
Self-Portrait of artist from the 1600s seated and holding up an empty hand. Looks uncannily like the actor who played faramir in Lord of the rings.
Seated statue in robe with darkness under hood where face should be.
Screen cap of a feed headline that reads, "Why is AI hallucinating more frequently, and how can we stop it?"
Screencap of a post by the CAMEL lit journal of the longlist for the 2025 Gilmer Prize. Including my name with a story called "One Last Thing".
Screen cap of a weather app showing rain and temperatures ranging between 5 and 18 degrees Celsius.
Poster advertising last two seats for in-person poetry workshop. More info and buy link at https://square.link/u/kDaZxo12
Image of a poem titled "Considerations for Building Your Own Guillotine" Text: Considerations for Building Your Own Guillotine What’s essential to get right is the ratio between height and weight to ensure the blade attains enough velocity to be humane, lest it get stuck part way through the neck. Brand recognition, though, is also key, prominent logos and flags, race car decals like Amazon, Monsanto, Apple, Nestlé, Dupont, Disney, Tesla, United Health, Exxon, Walmart, News-Corp, Hungary, Russia, Israel, America. Also, pay homage. Etch the blade with names, carve the wood like bones, engrave images of Palestinian children, Black slaves, missing Indigenous women, African lithium miners, migrant babies in cages, Asian forced-labor corpses, Trans youth dead on the toilet floors of a world that somehow cares more about genitalia than humanity. Listen, I’m aware that only the first six lines here approach what’s called decency, so my advice is to skip that part and just get the job done. - George Murray