My Friday Evening Music

Wouldn't you think there'd be more Reg E. Gaines out there? Next year, I might have to upload some material on YouTube. Here's the last one for the week.

 

Thank You, Richard

Continuing to celebrate National Poetry Month with work from our contributing artists. Up next is Richard Spisak. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this week.

Save Geoffrey

 

 

Oddball Magazine's Geoffrey Fallon needs help. I've organized this Gofundme page with the hopes that the arts community can help him get back on his feet. Click here and please consider donating.

Wisdom Within Wisdom

Wise Words by Bruce Wise is up now at Oddball Magazine. 

NaPoWriMo, Day Nineteen, Poem Nineteen

Downtime

 

Ozzy

backed by

Primus

 

cancels

force-fed

jazz tracks,

Going Random

A special edition of Janet Cormier's Bamboozled No More! starts our Friday over at Oddball Magazine. 

Away

Not at my computer for most of the morning. The Croutons poem and more will come later.

My Friday Morning Music

 This counts as music. Reg E. Gaines with tap kid Savion Glover.

 

T.G.I.F.

When the trial starts, let him fall asleep and never wake up.

Inspired by DL Polonsky.

NaPoWriMo, Day Eighteen, Poem Eighteen

Argument

 

When asking 

for forgiveness

Coming Soon

Geoffrey Fallon and I will be podcasting about the new X-Men '97 cartoon. 

Nice Name...

The Odd is another journal accepting submissions. Click here for more info.

Coming Up in May

#FemkuMag is is open to women, non-binary, & trans-identifying poets only. Submission will be open throughout the month of May.

Still April

Gnashing Teeth Publishing is still publishing a poem a day on their site for National Poetry Month. Click here to submit a poem every day by 5:00 CT until the end of April.

Pull, Pull, Pull...

James Van Looy's poem column It's All One Thing is up now at Oddball Magazine. 

Sue Savoy Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 4-17-24

From this week's online gathering. Sue Savoy gave us an awesome feature. Stay tuned when we send a call out to buy her collection coming from Crooked Tree House Press. 

 

 

Last Stop! Wave By and Get Off the Train!

Another night to mark National Poetry Month. Thanks to Sue Savoy for her impressive feature and everyone who attended. Look out for our call to action when Sue's book comes out in June. Stay tuned for more announcement for April and May, the month of Stone Soup's fifty-third anniversary. 

Happy International Haiku Day 2024

'Merican haiku?

If there's  no cherry blossoms,

elite don't want 'em.

Forgot to Post This Reaction Haiku Last Week

American Haiku After Discovering
Jack Kerouac's American Haiku

Jack's ghost
gets back on the road
to sue my ass.

I'll Be Much Happier Than Most When the Day's Done

Heading out when I can. Tonight will be busy, but first and foremost I have to prep for Stone Soup. Sue Savoy is featuring tonight, and you should join us. 

Okay, You Got Your Single Step in, Now Walk a Thousand Miles!

The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for April 17 is up now at Substack.

Tonight: Toni Bee's Poetry Workshop.

If you go to Toni's workshop then call in to Stone Soup, I'l be your best frind. Click here to register. 

Drive Carefully

Poet John Greiner and photographer Glenn Bowie give us an appropriate pairing to close out the day. Thanks for getting your poetry and art fix over at Oddball Magazine. 

NaPoWriMo, Day Seventeen, Poem Seventeen

Theorizing Over Juice

 
OJ Simpson 

already died 

First Taste

Poet Jeannie Roberts and artist Ira Joel Haber is our first serving this Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. 

Next Stop!

The transit puns will stop after Sue Savoy features tonight at Stone Soup Poetry.

Bonus Comics Moment

Found Liefeld Guy graffiti at a bus stop this morning. Good omen?

 

A Moment of Comics

More comic creators dumping on poetry and the poets who recite it. Remember when Jonah Hex spent time at a cattle ranch inspired by the life of Oscar Wilde where workers were forced to create music and verse? I'll give it to writer Joe Lansdale and artist Timothy Truman: They capture the awkwardness found at most open mics. A page from Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such. Story by Lansdale, art by Truman with inks by Sam Glanzman. 

American Haiku: How to Trump a Jury

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: How to Trump a Jury

 

You like Donald Trump?

Well why wouldn't  you like him?!?

Motion to strike...Motion to strike...

Happy Birthday, Anthony McPherson

 

 

Happy Birthday, Kkumar Prasanna

 

Told You This Was Happening More

Now it's everywhere.

And it's escalating.

Free Sneakers!

 I wish I remembered the store. I would have totally posted this on Instagram.

 

City Haiku

Pathway to work

perfumed under foot.

Petals on sidewalk.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

You can read and hear "God Willing Valley" and "Poem for Gaza" by Palestinian poet Nyla Matuk in Send My Love to Anyone.

 

Practice Haiku

Four in the morning,

birds awake just to tell me

to go f--k myself.

Jason and Me by Geoffrey

Geoffrey Fallon sent me this sketch of me and co-host Jason Wright to remind us he is the number one (as in only) fan of the Week That Was podcast currently on hiatus. The drawing was later utilized in this week's episode of "The Secrets of Skinny People." Hopefully Jason and I will start up again soon.

Tonight: The First and Last Word Poetry Series

 

 

Hosted by Gloria Mindock. Featuring Harris Gardner, Ed Meek and Annie Pluto. Click here to register for the Zoom call. 

Shine

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

When An Annoyance is Just Another Writing Prompt

 

 

My fifty-eighth Tuesday Poem is up now on Patreon for subscribers.

 

For Those Feeling Old

Poet Joseph Cooper and artist Thomas Riesner kick off Tuesday over 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.

The one time I regret doing research...

Happy Birthday, Erik Nelson

 

NaPoWriMo, Day Sixteen, Poem Sixteen

Avoid a Midlife

Crisis in Three Steps

 
Stay ugly 

and old. 

Remember

you're broke.

Oddball Stories with John Garmon

Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Monday.

If I Was in New Orleans, I'd Go to This

 

 

Click here for more information. 

A Higher Standard

Don Krieger is back with an essay on the inner workings of one of Trump's many court cases. Read it now at Oddball Magazine. 

Tomorrow: The First and Last Word Poetry Series

 

 

Hosted by Gloria Mindock. Featuring Harris Gardner, Ed Meek and Annie Pluto. Click here to register for the Zoom call. 

 

Two More Days Until Toni Bee's Poetry Workshop

Write with former Poet Populist Toni Bee on the subject of roses and thorns and share the work you create in the session. Click here to register. 

More Show and Tell!

Anne Skove's comic is back. Read "She Who Laughs Lasts," up now at Oddball Magazine. 

Too Short to Be an Erasure Poem, but Closer to TRUTH

Trump's TRUTH Social post from earlier today pre-erasure.

Trump's TRUTH Social post from earlier today post-erasure.

Now I'm Caught in the Metaverse!

Thanks to Geoffrey for letting me and Jason Wright have our say in his comic for the week. Read "The Secrets of Skinny People" and bask in my baldness over at Oddball Magazine. 

Wednesday Coming Around the Bend

Sue Savoy's next stop is Stone Soup Poetry.

April 17: Sue Savoy from the T to the Virtual Mic

 

 

Sue Savoy has been one of the most consistent open micers at The Cantab Lounge for years. Like many Boston Poets, she gets a lot of writing done on the T. She has a collection of these poems coming out in the summer. You can hear a preview of this collection via our remote gathering this Wednesday on April 17. More local legends join us for National Poetry Month.

Join us on April 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 874 4170 0263

Password: stonesoup 

Thank You, Jennifer.

Continuing to celebrate National Poetry Month with work from our contributing artists. Next up is Jennifer Matthews for this early Monday at Oddball Magazine. 

NaPoWriMo, Day Fifteen, Poem Fifteen

No Running

 
Race already won

in rigged version

we take busses to.

Happy Birthday, Beatriz Alba Del Rio

Come back to Oddball Magazine. 

Made Me Smile to Pass By on the Street

I appreciate moments of cartoon levity in graffiti. 

This Week's Friendly Reminder

When people have to alter numbers in their sticker with a marker, things are serious. Try to contribute to the current administration changing their minds.

My Monday Morning Music

I still have the CD from Reg E Gaines this track appears on. His stuff is hard to find online, but I think I have a selection ready.

 

NaPoWriMo, Day Fourteen, Poem Fourteen

Do

 
Just one more

everything now.

 

All at once

never enough.

New Release

"Trump Releases" is my latest blackout poem on Medium.

 

Your Weekly Dose of God

This was actually on a table in my girlfriend's classroom.

Happy Birthday, John Roche

 

 

NaPoWriMo, Day Thirteen, Poem Thirteen

Rally

 

Cry sheep

when wolf

 

already 

left larder.

NaPoWriMo, Day Thirteen, Poem Twelve

Warning

 

Dream of

past time 

when me

comatose