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Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Cold Water
Poet Chris Mansel and photographer close out Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. Thanks for reading. Hope you keep visiting us.
Like a Serpent's Tongue
Poet Shawn Scott Smith and artist Thomas Riesner kick off Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. Thanks for stopping by.
Never Retire
A Moment of Comics
I've been bad highlighting black creators for Black History Month. Today, I'm featuring the opening page from the biography comic Prince: Alter Ego by the late writer Dwayne McDuffie and pencils by Denys B. Cowan, who is still working today.
American Haiku: Trump State of the Union Leaked
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 State of the Union Leaked
Trump (no Epstein) Trump
Trump Trump (kill brown people) Trump
Trump (no one gets to vote) Trumpy Trump.
Your Wednesday Morning Poetry
Thanks to the Poetry Foundation site for Evie Shockley's poem, "Sex Trafficking Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the USA (or, The Nation’s Plague in Plain Sight)."
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Most Exquisite
Poet Susan Isla Tepper and photographer Glenn Bowie reunite for another 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.
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| I'm expecting the noise interrupting my piece any second now... |
Monday, February 16, 2026
Never Too Late, Maybe
Catching up with everything that happened when I wasn't online. Thanks to Don Kingfisher Campbell for accepting "Too Late to Be a Love Poem" and "Too Late to Be a Love Poem, Part 2" in the Four Feathers Press anthology Love.
I Get All of These!
Anne Skove gives us a good ol' aging comic this week. Read "She Who Laughs Lasts" at Oddball Magazine.
Smashed
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons captures a moment of rage to kick off the week today at Oddball Magazine.
February 18: Stone Soup is On Vacation
After spending much of last week getting my computer fixed and dealing with other nonsense, I'll be taking this week off for my planned vacation.
Stone Soup will return next week on February 25 with Jules Nyquist.
Part of the Madness
Thanks to Patricia Carragon for including me in the March Madness issue of her Sense and Sensibility Haiku journal yesterday. Check out the whole issue!
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Happy Valentines Day
What better way to celebrate the so-called holiday than with a photo of The Cantab in Cambridge, a constant source of heartache for me in the early 2000's.
Friday, February 13, 2026
My Friday Evening Music
The Smashing Pumpkins have new music, and they're second banana to a group named YUNGBLUD? I'll listen to this tonight.
Crude and Cruel Wisdom
Wise Words with Bruce Wise closes out Oddball Magazine. Thanks for reading us this week.
Damn
This isn't my current laptop.
This isn't even my last laptop.
It's the laptop I had before that.
I've had three laptops over five years.
I've always known that, but it sucks to reflect.
My current laptop is acting up. I can't even turn it on.
It is under warranty, so I'm sending it over to Micro Center this afternoon.
I hope it's ready for the end of February.
Newly Added to the Link
Check out Chainmail Poetry and read Kristen Keckler's poem in response to my poem published last week. Consider writing your own response using a phrase from Kristen's poem. You have until the end of next Wednesday to do so.
Leopards Eating Faces Update!
Steven Mnuchin proves that your loyalty to a tyrant only ensures you inherit not their power but their blame. Nothing more. Maybe less.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
So There We Have It
James Van Looy shows you what's in plain sight with this week's poem column. Read It's All One Thing now over at Oddball Magazine.
Richard Spisak Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 2-11-26
From this week's online gathering. Hope you got some chuckles from Richard's special performance.
Thanks, Richard
I really appreciate Richard Spisak cominb back from illness to deliver the Stone Soup feature he promised. Seek out his books if only to distract yourselves while I go away and take a week off from Stone Soup and return on the 25th for Jules Nyquist.
Tempted
Sometimes I'll just want to post on Facebook, "Will you f--kers stop smelling your farts with this 365 poem-a-day blog thing? "
I stop myself, but the temptation grows greater every year.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Won't Have to Do This For a Little Bit
I'll be on vacation next week. Before that happens, join me tonight for Richard Spisak's Stone Soup feature later tonight. Let's get two Wednesdays of fun in.
Beatdowns and Body Counts
Now we end the day with relevant poetry by Lukas Flippo with artwork by Edward S. Gault. Thanks for reading Oddball Magazine. Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you come back soon.
Little Men
It's a darker mix in the waters today. We start with poet Salvatore Difalco and artist Mark Blickley this Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. Welcome and thanks for reading.
An Abundance of Poetry
The February issue of North of Oxford is chock full of poetry, which includes the anthology And So This is Winter... Check it out now and thanks to g emil reutter and Diane Sahms for the extra work.
Other Saint’s Day
A Moment of Comics
For Valentine's Day week, I want to feature something from a love comic. What else could it be but one of my favorite pages from Saga #1. Written by Brian K. Vaughan with artwork by Fiona Staples.
American Haiku: Kid Rock's Lips Move
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: Kid Rock's Lips Move
I did not lip synch
while Trump sang "Bawitdaba"
on a mic behind the curtain!
Your Wednesday Morning Poetry
Aside from the poem I featured last week, I couldn't find any poems online about Jeffrey Epstein written by women. That's really messed up. So I decided to feature a poet who has always written about women.
Read "black curses as songs" by Jamailla VanDyke-Bailey over at Open: Journal of Arts and Letters.
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