Chad Parenteau: Poet For Hire

Always seems to last forever, always over too quick.

Work Poems. I have to avoid them for th emoment. Maybe you should too, if you can. Maybe not.

Response poems. Do you write them? I do. I just don't anyone know who I'm responding to.

Just got finished with my poem for today. Or so I thought. I won't be publishing it today. Call it poem 7.5. Has that happened to ...

Talking less as a poet and more as a host for other poets. Asking about the venue I host is actually the worst thing a poet can do to ...

Today I tried to write another Tretina. It was a poetic form I was introduced to by Tom Daley. It's like a sestina, except shortene...

On Sunday night, before National Poetry Writing Month started, I wrote a poem I had in my head since Thursday.

A question for fellow writers. Have you ever had a friend, a family member or a coworker talk to you and tell you they're a poet?

Above image above courtesy of Maureen Thorson.   Welcome everyone participating in National Poetry Writing Month. I will have something ...

For National Poetry Month, I decided to writing a poem a day as per my usual routine, I'll also be sharing random thoughts about poetry...

Above image above courtesy of Maureen Thorson,   It starts April 1st. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is a thirty-challenge...

I first asked Charles Coe to come read at Stone Soup all the way back in 2007 when our home was on Prospect Street in Cambridge. It...

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