Chad Parenteau: Poet For Hire

Jason Wright's latest Jagged Thought poem column is out now over at Oddball Magazine.    

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May Contain Traces of Me, Part Three: Going Unheard. Read it on my Patreon.

Patricia Carragon has an anti-ode to America turning a wizened 250. Glad to have photography paired  paired with her work this Tuesday at Od...

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 ...

   

I don't need to work that hard today.

Oh well. Probably won't get to the 300th anyway.  

Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this drawn out Monday.  

A lot has happened while I was away. While I was away from the computer, John Patrick Robbins published my poem "Your Job That Will Be ...

    "Retribution" is my latest poem for the micropoetry journal Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry). Glad to be in the Monday post with fel...

Another Anne Skove's comic on the (lack of) creative process in this week's "She Who Laughs Lasts." Read it now over at Od...

  It's Later Now, Part Forty-Four: And Another Thing. Read it on my Patreon.

Post July Fourth Mike Mesterton-Gibbons gives us lighter subject matter for this Monday. Welcome to Oddball Magazine. It's like we neve...

Mary Ann Honaker features on July 15 when Stone Soup Poetry returns.

When I visit my Mom for July Fourth, we go watch the fireworks because they are literally walking distance from my childhood house. Normally...

Poet, author, columnist and editor Marc Goldfinger has been a multiple time feature during my tenure at Stone Soup Poetry, and he has always...

We need to work together again soon.  

   

   

Amazing to see a Big ⇡ 02130 sticker in Kenmore Square during the spring.

I love that a store put this sign up. More should do likewise.

New music from established. First is Bootsy Colins with Eric Gales.    

Must have been a bad lip read.

Mary Ann Honaker has graced Stone Soup Poetry's real space and virtual space podiums. On July 15, she makes her virtual return with poe...

Bruce Wise's Wise Words column was lost and couldn't be put up on Friday. Putting his column in today as a late entry marks what mig...

Here is a still shot from Mom recording my graduation from Framingham Sate College back in [REDACTED]. I'm thinking of writing a story f...

Well, that's it for freedom.  

Too many people who don't really understand journalism use the term "burring the lead." From a recent Yahoo story, starting fr...

   

Been a while!  

   

Found another standard "God Bless America" pamphlet they print out every June. God better hurry up and bless us. I don't know ...

Jon Wesick shares his recent work to close out our holiday posting. Thanks to him and to Eric N. Peterson for being our artistic MVP. Thanks...

It’s probably nothing.  

Jackie Oldham is the first poet with a special entry this Fourth of July. Thanks to her and artist Eric N. Peterson. Enjoy special holiday ...

On the Fourth, we now keep a look out for fire  above and below.

Thanks to James Penha for publishing my poem "Department of Justice Releases America’s 250th Birthday Song" in The New Verse News ...

   

When I started my  Sarcastic Haiku series,  I wrote my first  American Haiku. An American Haiku doesn't care about tradition, formalit...

I keep going with Stone Soup Poetry without taking many breaks. The week of July 8 is one of those rare times I take a break. I'll be ba...

One more from Donald Fagen's  Kamakiriad  album. I wasn't sure what song to include, but then I found out Rick Moranis was in the vi...

Held at the First Baptist Church on 633 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain. Doors open at 7:00. Click here for more info. 

Things feel dangerous now. Not just because the sun is slowly murdering me.

Janet Cormier with words on one facet of the American spirit. Bamboozled No More! is up for Friday at Oddball Magazine.  

I think my output always increases around July Fourth. I think it’s because my schedule opens up so much after my girlfriend starts her summ...

   

"One Choice is my latest From Picture to Page poem. Join my Patreon (even as a free subscriber) to read it. 

Anyone carrying a jackhammer in DC will be arrested. 

It's weird to think of a song like "Snowbound" from Donald Fagen's  Kamakiriad  album as a summer song, but I do.     

  Stop trying to make Marjorie Taylor Greene appear noble.  

Follow me for more news on decaying soulless octogenarians propped up by evil science. Or not.

Noting poetic will happen as long as you're on the telephone.

This weekend he'll be having a conversation with Little Nero.

  Tracey McTague is the first featured poet of July for  The Arts Fuse.

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

 

From this week's online gathering. Stone Soup is taking a break this week. Stay safe this July Fourth weekend. I'll see you back two...

I'll be off next week, bound for parts unknown. Stone Soup will be back on July 15 for special feature Mary Ann Honaker. Stay safe this ...

Named after his spawning pit. I mean the Freedom Pool..  

Sweet relief at the end of a Wednesday.  For once.  Stone Soup's open mic is tonight.  I hope you join us. 

The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for July 1 is up now at Substack.

Poet Kevin B and photographer Edward S. Gault give us the closing post for the first day of July. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine to...

Decided to share an old article of mine, "Is Trump adding a dash of salt to the hate?" Read it now on my Medium page. 

Poet Spencer Keene is matched with artist Edward Michael Supranowicz to give us our first Wednesday post of July. Oddball Magazine says wel...

  Meet  Lizzie Rutberg in this week's  Lyrical Somerville for  The Somerville Times.  

Saw this tweet and thought of George Carlin immediately.   

Is this supposed to be a flex? Because I'm not sure it's really a flex. 

Maybe if told people that superheroes were being caged alongside immigrants and other brown people, we could end ICE tomorrow and turn this ...

When I started my  Sarcastic Haiku series,  I wrote my first  American Haiku. An American Haiku doesn't care about tradition, formalit...

Not enough popcorn to outlast this slow death.

   

In light of the Great American State Fair, here's the poem "State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day" by Maryann Corbett, courtesy of ...