Chad Parenteau: Poet For Hire

Both lion and lamb reenact that final scene in Kubrick's Shining.    

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

Thanks to TikTocker and YouTuber Kaelin for posting this Instagram post by Lucas Jones. Read "This country is an abusive parent" ...

  "Complete and Total" is my latest Truth Social blackout poem--and yes, it's based on THAT post--up now at  Medium.

Jason Wright is back with his Jagged Thought poem column. Read his latest now at Oddball Magazine.

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

Shipshape in a Sh-tstorm, Part Thirteen: No Loss. Read it on my Patreon.

Jeff Weddle with more timely poetry with help from protest photographer Jack Marty. Happy(?) Tuesday at Oddball Magazine.  

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...

Sure, let’s do one of these when I’m tired and coming down from a cold. I’m pissed. 

 

 

Woke up this morning  with a head full of dogshit. flu week one achieved!

Use it to reply to any James Woods Twitter post!   

Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Monday. 

Tony Brown's "The Last Day" is today's required reading on his Dark Matte r blog.

Edward Michael Supranowicz is next in our writer/artist series for National Poetry Month at Oddball Magaizne.  

And I say unto thee: Now I'm just confused. A place in Brookline Massachusetts?!?

Anne Skove's comic shares the spring wear of her local stomping grounds. Thanks to Anne Skove and "She Who Laughs Lasts" at Od...

It's Later Now, Part Thirty-One: Question. Read it on my Patreon.

Glad to have my photography paired up with flash fiction by Steven Schutzman for Monday's opening salvo at Oddball Magazine . Glad you s...

Jason Wright features a Stone Soup Poetry in just a couple of more days.

The coffee cup in the "Free" distribution box always cracks me up.

Anti-Social Fuck you Pisseyes I bite  you dead!

   

Continuing to continue a theme. 

This Death Rabbit is the only type of bunny I'm celebrating this April. Also, it has the same friendly reminder for this week.  

Patti Smith is featured this week as part of National Poetry Month.     

 At least no one’s questioning he wrote it. P

Is Trump trying to make my next blackout poem before I can?

Happy Easter.

   

Enjoy Easter Sunday!

It almost feels like a joke for Easter to already be here. Here's a card I found at the Forest Hills station that serves as an invitatio...

New Easter Aides move boulder. 

"Don't Make America Sick Again" is a sign that I spotted not after 2020 but during a healthcare rally in April of 2017.  Anoth...

   

Diane Sahms is featuring later this April at Stone Soup Poetry.

  Bitter Saturday. Fimbulwinter continues  despite changed seasons.

Day Two All bid me rise.

Over twelve hours sleep. How you doing?  

The song that keeps on popping up consistently when I search for The Showcase Showdown.    

   

Poet and photographer Edward S. Gault is the first of our spotlighted writer/artists for National Poetry Month. Thank you for reading Oddbal...

From former Poet Laureate Mark Bohrer:  You are invited to the next monthly "Poetry and Coffee"! This Saturday is the first Saturd...

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

Bruce Wise keeps Friday going with Wise Words at Oddball Magazine.  

Ron Goba with Tom Daley after a Salon reading in October 2010. Below are the words I prepared for my introductory piece to Ron Goba's tr...

Janet Cormier is back with Bamboozled No More! is back at Oddball Magazine. Friday is here! 

Scrollers Don't look for things you said last night.

Choose A snap to be  unbent.

It's been a rough 24 hours. My running around got the best of me.  So now I'm a day behind, and it's only Day Three. I have to g...

More of the recently reunited Showcase Showdown.    

  Thank you, Pam Bondi, for making my work easy this week. Funny. When the news was trending on social media, I thought she had already bee...

America doesn’t have a king! Why aren’t you working?!? UhweyooweyooweyooWEYoo!!!

Appreciate John Patrick Robbins for publishing my poem "Closed" in today's edition of The Crossroads.  

  Jacqueline Waters is this week's featured poet at The Arts Fuse.  

Jame Van Looy's poem column returns. Read It's All One Thing now at Oddball Magazine.    

Just me and my emotional support poets Timothy Gager and Jason Wright. Thanks to them and everyone else for coming to Ron Goba's tribute...