Happy Birthday, Julie River

 

 

Why?

Sadly, this Jeep sticker was torn up. Why? Who hates the Eugene the Jeep?

This Week's Friendly Reminder

This won't stop popping up. 

My Monday Morning Music

Surprised I haven't featured Charles Bukowski. One more focus on spoken word for National Poetry Month. 

 

 

There's More of Ron to Share

This artwork titled Butter Moon was created by Ron Goba's granddaughter Sayla and used for a chapbook collection that debuted as part of his feature on May 11, 2013. With the permission of Ron's family, I would love to have this and at least one other collection available as a downloadable PDF on my website this May. I also hope to share other Goba related media in the coming weeks. Announcements will be made. 

Run!

“Help! I’m a dispensable crony helping to destroy the American people! Let me through!”

 

Before What Happened Happened

You've got to be kidding me. 

You Know Who's New Look!

“I just want you to know that I’m fine. I’m healing. I have a healing factor like Deadpool. Not wolverine. Wolverines a loser. He died his last solo film. Sad.” 

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Six, Poem Twenty-Six

Retire Already

Holed up
hiding.

Same spot
you once 

shamed me
out of. 

Happy Birthday, Nadia Arioli

 

 

Happy Birthday, Lewis Morris

 

 

Your Weekly Dose of God

Looking at one of the very specific Christian songs from Megadeth today. 

 

 

A Measured Response

 

Another Coming

"Trump Sitting Above a Pile of Bones in Palm Beach, Florida" is my latest entry in the Indolent Books Second Coming series. Thanks for having me back, Michael Broder. 

Last Minute Haircut

Timed perfectly. Tipped generously. The second statement might be more true.

Saturday Fleas

 

 

Read my poem "Insight" in the Saturday edition  Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry). Thanks to Roberta Beach Jacobson for keeping the poetry going on the weekends. Glad to be with poets Linda M. Crate, Richard Magahiz and several others.

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Five, Poem Twenty-Five

Pace

I will
take a
first step,

My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 4-25-26

 

Fimbulwinter in

Spring is still Fimbulwinter.

Sun hangs uselessly. 

Happy Birthday, Jess Mynes

 

 

No Comment

 

My Friday Evening Music

The last King Missile spoken word piece for National Poetry Month. Heard this years ago on the late Yahoo Launch. Always remembered this.

Stone Soup Croutons, 4-8-26: Where do You Go Now?

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.

 

I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

 

I haven't wanted to do these in a while. 

I was enjoying writing other things for a while. 

 

I wondered if this was a worthwhile exercise. 

 

I figured I would see by starting to do Crouton poems for National Poetry Month. 

 

Jason Wright was our first feature for April. 

 

I enjoyed recapping the show. And then I didn't. 

 

I don't have the energy to do admin work for a Zoom call and take notes for the poem.

 

It was easier live. AT least I had an excuse for not being able to take down everything.

 

Now I don't.  

 

It's such a tedious process. 

 

And did I haven't done something in a while, It's like ripping bones from my body.

 

I did it anyway. Here's what I came up with.

 

Thanks for reading. 

 

 

Where do You Go Now?

 

A sex course is being offered

by a relative whose funeral 

you attended. They say you 

can please your partner

and a mistress you don't have. 

Monday: The Contro-Verse Open Mic at Urban Media Arts in Malden with Shannon O'Connor

From 7:00 to 8:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. At Urban Media Arts on 145 Pleasant Street in Malden, MA. Hosted by Anna Geoffroy and Ethan Mackler. Click here for more information.

Grab Those Last Pearls

Continuing our series of featured writer/artists with longime Oddball staple Jennifer Matthews. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this week. Stay safe this weekend.

What I Sometimes Spot

I'm about to walk all the way to work, and then I see the warning signs. 

The Duke of Wisdom

Bruce Wise keeps it going with Wise Words for Oddball Magazine. 

This Is Happening More

Soneone tried to follow and communicate with me on Bluesky posing as an anti-Trump wrestler using the above photo of Bayley, one of the most famous women wrestlers. Maybe it was just a random catfish, or maybe they connected with me due to my wrestling work. I don't know which is sadder.

Thoughts While Walking, 4-24-26: More Music Talk

Let's be honest, okay?

Still Waiting

Janet Cormier's Bamboozled No More! is up now at Oddball Magazine. 

Have a good Friday.

 

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Four, Poem Twenty-Four

PSA

Jennifer Bannan, Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series Plus Q and A with Timothy Gager, 4/23/26

Yesterday's Dire today. Hosted by Timothy Gager. 

 

 

Happy Birthday, Ryan "Rat" Travis

 

 

Happy Birthday, Karen DeGroot Carter

Keep writing.

 

F--k Fridays

You can have them.

 

My Friday Morning Music

When I heard this King Missile track, I thought the lyrics inspired Rich Mackin's non-protest from over two decades ago. I asked Rich if he knew the track, and he said no. He's a punk guy, so I still believe him all these years later. Still...

 

 

Leopards Eating Faces Update!

 

I could just say "women" this week and end it there, but let's start with Lori Chavez-DeRemer, another of the women forced to leave Trump's administration. Trump throwing women under the bus (or under the dirt of his golf resorts) is so predictable, now Tulsi Gabbard is projected as being next on the chopping block. Between them, Riley Gaines last week, and Caitlyn Jenner a few days ago, it seems like Trump is taking his frustrations out on women to make himself feel better about Iran. And unlike Iran, Trump is winning that fight.

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Three, Poem Twenty-Three

Not This Time

Performing 
monkey boy

Calls night
early. 

Tonight: Jennifer Bannan at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

 
Hosted by Timothy Gager. Click here to join the group and get information on how to join the call.

How Those Other Negotions Happened

That's how I heard it. 

But Before

 

Serena Solin is this week's featured poet at The Arts Fuse.

Sick and Tired of It

Jesus f--king f--k. Why is The Face That Is the Space blocking my post for James Van Looy's poem column It's All One Thing today and making it less noticeable. I have guesses.

Madman Theory Foreign Policy

James Van Looy is back again with It's All One Thing, the longest running poem column to run in Oddball Magazine. 

Happy Belated Birthday, Lee Desrosiers

 

 

Diane Sahms Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 4-22-26

From this week's online gathering. A true night of experimental work. Pick up Diane's latest book, of an octopus: an archite|x|tural awareness of words, as soon as you can. 

 

 

Goodbye, Philly!

Thanks to everyone who came out last night and special thanks to Diane Sahms for a fantastic feature. Be sure to buy her collection, of an octopus: an archite|x|tural awareness of words. Stay tuned for more Stone Soup News as we approach our fifty-fifth anniversary. 

Why Am I Here?

Oh, yeah. I remember now.

I just have to last long enough to start Stone Soup Poetry.

Diane Sahms is our feature tonight. 

This is going to be a different feature. 

You should be a part of our virtual audience for this. 

The Dark Before the Dark

 

 

The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for April 22 is up now at Substack.

Final Burn

Returning contributors, poet Jim Bellamy and artist Digby Beaumont, give us today's closing post at Oddball Magazine. Thanks for reading us today. One more Wednesday to go for National Poetry Month!

Dead Again

I've never been busier and less productive. 

I'm so f--king frustrated. 

The Crawl Begins

Poet Kaleigha Easterly and photographer Bonnie Matthews Brock unite to give us our first Wednesday post for Oddball Magazine. Welcome to the day.

More Student Time

 

Doug Holder features Irina Canute, another Endicott College student, in this week's Lyrical Somerville. Look at Irina's work now over at The Somerville Times. 

Gotta Get Ready

You better be ready for Diane Sahms' Stone Soup Poetry feature tonight.

Have a Feeling

We're going to see more stickers like this in the coming days. 

So I Read This And...

I get it. I really do. 

A Moment of Comics

I miss being able to just sit down and read poetry. In this week's entry, non-breakout character Feron enjoys (off-page) a lesser=known poem by William Butler Yeats in the Alan Davis helmed Excalibur #48. Written and penciled by Davis with inks by Mark Farmer.

 

American Haiku: Trump Recites Scripture from Memory

When I started my Sarcastic Haiku series, I wrote my first American Haiku. An American Haiku doesn't care about tradition, formality or history. it takes as long as it wants to make its point because America. You can read others I've written since by clicking here and scrolling down. 

 

American Haiku: Trump Recites Scripture from Memory

I am me and you 
love me and you love me and
you all think I'm Jesus!

Happy Birthday, Daniel Coshnear

 

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-Two, Poem Twenty-Two

You're an Emotional Landfill

Behold. Another trauma dump
Why else are you around people
if not to catalog their sins. 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

 

 

I'll spend this week and next focusing on poets who are no longer with us. Today, let us read "A Poem for Happy Endings" by the late Charles Coe. Thanks to Solstice Literary Magazine. 

Nowhere is Somewhere

Jason Wright's Jagged Thought poem column is up now at Oddball Magazine. 

This Thursday: Jennifer Bannan at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

 
Hosted by Timothy Gager. Click here to join the group and get information on how to join the call.

New Series

Finding My Worse Self, Part One: Zero Temptation. Read it on my Patreon.

Come In

Poet Alec Solomitta returns as does artist Edward Michael Supranowicz, paired up once again for Tuesday at Oddball Magazine. 

This Week's Most Distinguished Network Name

It's amazing what people will name their online networks. I'm always trying to hijack Wi-Fi when I'm commuting, so I often come across a number of interesting names. Every Tuesday, I post the most impressive and/or cringe-inducing names.

It would have been a lot cooler if I saw this on a Friday.

NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty-One, Poem Twenty-One

Adding Red Flags
on Dating Profile

Never been
smart enough

to know when
somebody

More Bloom

More plants coming out ahead of the hydrangea. Makes me wonder if we'll get blueberries this year. 

News from the Front, 4-21-26

Not going from sick to canceled. Sorry. Let Carder Anderson do this one.