My poem "No Heights" is in the Saturday edition of Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry). Thanks to Roberta Beach Jacobson for including with poetic comrades Jackie Chou, Patricia Hawkhead and others.
Saturday, May 23, 2026
NIght Bites
My poem "No Heights" is in the Saturday edition of Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry). Thanks to Roberta Beach Jacobson for including with poetic comrades Jackie Chou, Patricia Hawkhead and others.
May 27: Susan Deer Cloud Brings It All Back Home
Join us on Wednesday, May 27, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 816 7309 2287
Password: stonesoup
My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 5-23-26
The rest of the year
takes place in single morning.
takes place in single morning.
No turning back now.
Friday, May 22, 2026
My Friday Evening Music
I could have gone for funny, but my Dad's birthday is coming up, and I remembered this cover song by Muhammad Ali on an album put out when he was still Cassius Clay. I got the CD version for my father when he was still alive.
Wisdom from the Battlefield
Bruce Wise closes out the week with his Wise Words poem column. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine. See you Monday.
Light Fantastic
Taken from Tuesday after the storm and blackout. Used a different photo of this sky for my newsletter. Want to do something else with this one.
Wayne-Daniel Berard, Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series Plus Q and A with Timothy Gager, 5/21/26
Yesterday's Dire today. Hosted by Timothy Gager.
If Pulp Fiction was a 2000s Move and Tarantino Love the 80s
The soundtrack would've hit different is all I'm saying.
My Friday Morning Music
Bruce Willis put out music, made a cringy video and even had a concert on HBO.
Leopards Eating Faces Update!
Thomas Massie was never and will never be the savior of the GOP or anything else. Simply put, what was he doing when the GOP was amassing all their power? Letting it happen, of course. You can't get the power by any means necessary and somehow wipe the blood from your hands like it was never there.
Thursday, May 21, 2026
This Terrible Still Lull
James Van Looy writes how we all feel.
Read It's All One Thing.
His weekly poem column appears every Thursday morning at Oddball Magazine.
Meg Smith Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 5-20-26
From this week's online gathering. Sorry the open mic got cut off due to me only able to get on the call and record fifteen minutes after we started. Thanks to Richard Spisak for stepping in as host. Thanks to Meg Smith for a wonderful reading.
This Day Needed to End
Last night was a bit of a mess with me having to go back to work and grab the cord to my uncharged laptop, but Richard Spisak pulled through serving as open mic host before I was finally able to introduce last night's feature Meg Smith, who put on a great show. Visit her website to support her work. Learn more about this year's events for Edgar Allen Poe and Jack Kerouac. Be back next week for the final feature of our fifty-fifth anniversary month, Susan Deer Cloud.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
I'm Not in the Best of Places Right Now
I'm still having Stone Soup tonight.
I hope you're there.
We can all take our minds off of things.
Breathing Out
Young Abigail Cain closes us out with photography by Edward S. Gault. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Wednesday. Hope you come back.
New Additions
Who's running ICE? Video from Poets of the Resistance I. A reprint of "America" by James Monroe Whitfield. All this up now at North of Oxford for May.
A Drop of New Blood
Welcome exciting new poet Devon Riddick with returning artist Thomas Riesner for Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. Glad you stopped by.
A Winter Poem? Okay!
Valerie Quercia cools us down with less heated times. Check out her work in Doug Holder's Lyrical Somerville over at The Somerville Times.
An Awesome Moment of Comics
Check out Hans Rickheit on YouTube with his new characters Prong and Preen.
This Is Different
I haven't seen this take yet. Does this mean I'm going to see memes of Trump kissing Epstein throughout Pride Month?
A Moment of Comics
Thinking of someone I know who was always a bit of a chameleon like the character in Daniel Clowes' short story "Gynecology." A shell of a human being assuming identities and discarding them when it suits him, leaving a trail of hurt people in his wake. Last I checked, he attempted being an AI guru, shedding the family man role he assumed for two decades. What role is he wandering to now? Enjoy the final page to the short story below from Eightball #17, later collected in the collection Caricature.
American Haiku: Satire Choking on Blood
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: Satire Choking on Blood
Justice serves itself!
Trump innocent forever!
Everything's legal! Everything's legal!
Your Wednesday Morning Poetry
William J. Barnum passed away in 2019. I miss his existence in our world. Sadly, this is another poet whose work isn't online very much. In fact, nearly all his work online is because of me. Some of his work is on the old Stone Soup online journal Spoonful, Some of it is on my YouTube. Today, I'm focusing on this excerpt from his poem “Pierrot, The Wanderer,” courtesy of Oddball Magazine, which I also edit.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Throwing Things Together
Self-proclaimed new Poet Eliza Hansen is paired up with artwork from Edward Michael Supranowicz this 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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| *Sniff* These Pixar kids grow up so fast! |
Gen X Haiku
First I asked myself what would happen if I heard it in the Stop & Shop, then it happened.
Monday, May 18, 2026
For Ron
Thanks to Jen Kohl for letting me pair one of my photographs to go with her tribute to Ron Goba. Take a look now at Oddball Magazine.
Teach Your Own Numbers
Anne Skove makes math fun for the first time ever in this week's comic. Read "She Who Laughs Lasts" now over at Oddball Magazine.
Sales Savvy Squirrels?
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons on a new British marketing campaign kicks off the week at Oddball Magazine. Be safe this week!
About Time
I've been waiting for this bush outside our home to finally sprout up. Sadly, this will all be gone once it gets really hot.
Had to Check
I saw this newer sticker of Marianne Radnitzky's bundled up character. Given how cold it was for most of April, I'm not surprised. Maybe one of her more more springy characters will pop up soon.
Sunday, May 17, 2026
My Response to These Stupid YouTube Motivational Videos
I want my clipped Bobcat Goldthwait to be the next Willhelm scream.
More Ron from a Moron
As far as I can tell, this is also from the Goba Salon in December 2009. Regardless, it's a photo I like of Ron and Laura Kiesel, who has a new book out. I hope to share more photos of Ron along with a tribute poem or two in Oddball Magazine this Monday. I wanted to post more of Ron on his birthday week, but the week got away from me. Apologies.
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