In Fauxccasional Poems, UTSC Associate Professor Daniel Scott Tysdal does just that – conjuring events that never took place and creating alternative universes in the process. Or maybe a world where the crew of the Enola Gay refuse to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the Iroquois colonize Europe in the 12th century. Kennedy evades assassination and lives to the tender age of 92 or one where Barrack Obama compliments his politics with a career as a poet.