Chad Parenteau: Poet For Hire

    My poem "No Heights" is in the Saturday edition of Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry).  Thanks to Roberta Beach Jacobson for including ...

Susan Deer Cloud represents a big part of my history hosting Stone Soup Poetry. Some of my favorite events in the early years at the Out of...

The rest of the year takes place in single morning. No turning back now.

   

   

Today is the first day of the rest of the year. Wake me up when December ends.

It's the little victories that make me stop crying.     

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 wh...

Bruce Wise closes out the week with his Wise Words poem column. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine. See you Monday.  

I hate waiting.  

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

Damn all my stop starts.  

Waiting for the AC repair people.  Trying to get work done in the meantime.  

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 o...

Yesterday's Dire today. Hosted by Timothy Gager.     

Keep on keeping on.  

   

   

The soundtrack would've hit different is all I'm saying.  

Bruce Willis put out music, made a cringy video and even had a concert on HBO.      

  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...

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  What fun! Jim Behrle is this week's featured poet at  The Arts Fuse.  

James Van Looy writes how we all feel.  Read It's All One Thing. His weekly poem column appears every Thursday morning at Oddball Magazi...

   

   

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 aft...

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...

I'm still having Stone Soup tonight. Meg Smith is featuring. I hope you're there. We can all take our minds off of things.  

The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for May 20 is up now at Substack.

Young Abigail Cain closes us out with photography by Edward S. Gault. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Wednesday. Hope you come ...

Who's running ICE? Video from Poets of the Resistance I. A reprint of "America" by James Monroe Whitfield. All this up now at ...

Welcome exciting new poet Devon Riddick with returning artist Thomas Riesner for Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. Glad you stopped by.

  Valerie Quercia cools us down with less heated times. Check out her work in Doug Holder's Lyrical Somerville over at The Somerville Ti...

Stone Soup Poetry features Meg Smith this evening.    

Check out Hans Rickheit on YouTube with his new characters Prong and Preen. 

I haven't seen this take yet. Does this mean I'm going to see memes of Trump kissing Epstein throughout Pride Month?

Thinking of someone I know who was always a bit of a chameleon like the character in Daniel Clowes' short story "Gynecology." ...

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

   

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 m...

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Jason Wright's Jagged Thoughts poem column is up now at Oddball Magazine.    

Finding My Worse Self, Part Five: Before It Kills Me. Read it on my Patreon.

Self-proclaimed new Poet Eliza Hansen is paired up with artwork from Edward Michael Supranowicz 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...

First I asked myself what would happen if I heard it in the Stop & Shop, then it happened.   

 

Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Monday.

I need to escape.

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.  

The last thing young people learn to read is a room.

Anne Skove makes math fun for the first time ever in this week's comic. Read "She Who Laughs Lasts" now over at Oddball Magazi...

  It's Later Now, Part Thirty-Seven: Summer Fool. Read it on my Patreon.

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons on a new British marketing campaign kicks off the week at Oddball Magazine.  Be safe this week!

Meg Smith Features at Stone Soup Poetry this Wednesday.      

Is Snopes going to try and "debunk" those photos of Trump's hair from last week?

Welcome to Monday! Now get in line to receive  your morning beating!

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. 

   

   

   

   

Hope TSOSP returns someday.

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...

These are dark times. No time for subtlety. 

Saw this David Hasselhoff cover of Echo and the Bunnymen and decided I would cover obscure covers by celebrities. Not everything can be a co...

I want my clipped Bobcat Goldthwait to be the next Willhelm scream.  

Meg Smith features this coming week at Stone Soup Poetry.    

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 ha...

   

   

Saw another painted "Jesus Saves" cross on a Mattapan side street.