Chad Parenteau: Poet For Hire

Stop name dropping dead poets to prop yourself up!  

It’s sad seeing Snopes sink so low as to try and minimize what he said while ignoring the cheers from the audience.

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

It's time to send your work to Oddball Magazine for the 2026 Horrorthon!  

  Here's Whit Griffin as this week's featured poet for The Arts Fuse.

James Van Looy's poem column is up. Welcome to Thursday at Oddball Magazine.  

   

From this week's online gathering. Just what Stone Soup needed. A poet providing some much needed Boston flavor in our brew. Be sure to ...

October is already heating up (along with the rest of the planet). Thanks so much to Mignon Ariel King for a wonderful feature last night. B...

I mean, another fulfilling something accomplished, am I right? I'm sure you can say the same.  But I hope you have enough energy for Sto...

The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for October 7 is up now at Substack.  

We end with work by the poet known as DAJ 2020 with photography by Bonnie Matthews Brock. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Wedne...

I hate this month.

We start with a series of poems by Jennifer Gurney with photography by Edward S. Gault. Welcome to Wednesday at Oddball Magazine.  

Editors Diane Sahms and g emil reutter have compiled more poetry and book reviews for the latest issue of North of Oxford this month. Check...

  Christopher Cavallo is October's first entry in Lyrical Somerville. Read it now in  The Somerville Times.  

Looking forward to Mignon Ariel King being Stone Soup's first October feature.  

On Sunday I found these "'47 Clean Up" stickers. It looks like they came off purchased clothing. It looks like someone had the...

This  last"Why" from Why Guy's initial run of graffiti  is still holding up. It's actually easy to miss if you don't k...

My newest poetry project on Patreon involves new work based on a friend's chapbook. One of the poems in their collection includes a drea...

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

First step is second- worst step ever. Worst step is each step after that.

   

   

There are a fee poems out there in the wild web from poet Oliver Baez Bendorf. I finally decided on "I Want Biodegradable Sex" on...

I can't believe I had to edit out clapping. Some days I give up.

Jason Wright and his Jagged Thought poem column return to Oddball Magazine.  

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

Never Say, Part Four: Full Stop. Read it on my Patreon.

Poet Mark Tulin and artist Edward Michael Supranowicz break the silence this 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...

   

   

Hope to see you back in Oddball soon.

I don't know much about Nathan Bowen, but this piece in Kenmore Square really captures the musical spirit of the area that persists no m...

Saw a group of people in the Forest Hills T stop singing.  One was dressed in a dinosaur costume.  It's all well and good when spring is...

Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Monday.

Noise Flower is also looking for poetry submissions.  

  The North East Coast is currently accepting poetry submissions.

Glad to have my photography with Eric Goldfarb's poem on the recent botched execution of Christa Pike. It's up now at Oddball Magazi...

If I had the time, I would do a followup to my Coyote Vs. Acme review with  an article on all the fan art that ships Wile E. Coyote with th...

Life lessons for my girlfriend are in today's Anne Skove comic. Read "She Who Laughs Lasts" now at Oddball Magazine.  

  It's Later Now, Part Fifty-Six: Coulda. Read it on my Patreon.  

We have Mike Mesterton-Gibbons on the real royal family to open the week over at Oddball Magazine. Have a happy Monday! Hope to see you ali...

Mignon Ariel King rings in October for Stone Soup Poetry.  

Started a new journal, so it needs stickers. I've started with free ones from this particular overseas press I hope to bring up later to...

When your appointments are finished and your partner asks you to pick up toner for school, why not walk all the way down to State Street and...

I wanted to catch up last week but couldn't due to exhaustion. I'm a little more rested. Somewhat more healed. Let's see if I ca...

Going to post a sticker I found down in Provincetown.  The quote "You'll trip if you keep looking back" is actually taken from...

This is some ghost graffiti I found in Kenmore a while back. Probably faded away by now, as ghosts and street pieces often do. Let's see...

Republican politicians are killing us and people voting republican are killing themselves. We all need to vote in November.  

For this Halloween month, I'm focusing on the kind of everyday modern horror I've been featuring at Oddball Magazine. The techno mu...

Timothy Gager reads from his latest collection,  Almost Bluing for X-Tra Whiteness.

James Conant passed away over a decade ago. Two months later, I lost my grandmother and sister, which placed me in a stupor for the rest of ...

Saw this while out and about yesterday. That's the thing about religion. You can't really control who people are going to canonize a...

   

Doing stupid things most of the day.  

One last song from The Atomic Wranglers with a title that at least sounds optimistic. Check out their music.  

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

Looks like Bruce Wise and Wise Words is closing us out. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this week.   

Janet Cormier's Bamboozled No More! is up for Friday at Oddball Magazine.    

I'm lying low today.  I may be back sporadically. . Maybe not.   

Keep writing.

More of The Atomic Wranglers for the end of the week.    

  Another man losing his wife to his own racism.  

Trying to channel my disgust into something.