Latest books: Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, 2025), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit, 2023), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press). No chats.

Joined July 2009
New work at Trampoline Poetry - "Poet at Home, Shares Reflection". Thanks to Barnali Ray Shukla (amazing filmmaker, poet) for creating the photo that inspired the poem, and to Ed. Justin Lacour for believing in the piece. @barnalirays @TrampolinePoet1 trampolinepoetry.com/
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From Rolling Stone’s list (2021): The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time… #119: Marvin Gaye, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” This is the second recorded version and the third released – but Gaye’s version made the loudest boom on the charts. youtu.be/6FODXN6LnzA
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Carl Phillips, from “Something to Believe In”
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Have You Been Long Enough at the Table by Leslie Sainz #poetry
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The Gallows Songs by Christian Morgenstern #poetry
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Around 1500, Hieronymus Bosch painted sheet music on a sinner's bare butt in hell. 500 years later, someone transcribed and performed it. Now you can hear the original butt song from hell.
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“Come then. Leave your war awhile, paper or iron war, petrol or flesh, come in with your love, your fear of losing, your exhaustion with it. All day it’s been at you, coercing, jiving, claiming your belief in so much that isn’t true.” Thomas Pynchon hitting hard on a Friday
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Franz Wright from Ill Lit.
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after cleaning big well and little well... moongazing 大井戸も小井戸もかへて月見哉
ō ido mo ko ido mo kaete tsukimi kana Issa refers to the summer custom of draining and cleaning wells. haikuguy.com/issa/new.html
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Sky In Some Mosaic is in production! This is going to be a beautiful book (as are all Pinhole Poetry's books). You can find out more and order a copy at the link in my bio. Photo credit: Erin Bedford
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Light makes way like fire Angela Ball
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From Rolling Stone’s list (2021): The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time… #127: TLC, “Waterfalls” youtu.be/R09S7CNPhFs
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Thanks to Lee at @stonecirclerev for publishing my poem!
POEM 379: "City Pastoral with Crash Scene" by Chrissy Stegman (@pimpledrose) "Juliet was already horizontal backstage, pinned beneath silk and hot pink municipal flowers. Her beauty had the stunned look of love taxidermied." ⬇️LINK BELOW⬇️
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Two Bilingual Poems - Guillermo Bowie/Visual Poems - Robert Frede Kenter Not on soc media, welcome Guillermo Bowie to @icefloeP w/ 2 bilingual poems. Art @frede_kenter you grabbed this panorama of photos as much as from under        which clouds of rain…icefloepress.net/2026/10/23/…
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"No mother / will ever pluck us with a gentle turn / of her wrist." Love how non-humanness feels so deeply human, the transformation, and unexpected shift in POV in this autumnal poem 🤍 'The Unripe Apples' by @CharisJMorgan in @GrainLitMag #poetry #poetrycommunity
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Charles Wright from “Via Negativa” from Oblivion Banjo.
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I think I am ready to learn how to write. Think with words, not with ideas. -- Susan Sontag
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Happy falllll to all who celebrate.
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