Chad Parenteau: Poet For Hire

The funeral for my partner's mother is today. Here's "The Truth the Dead Know" by Anne Sexton courtesy of the Poetry Foun...

Because I'm still in a Canadian state of mind, here's a fitting poem by Leonard Cohen. Read "All There is to Know About Adolph ...

This morning, we are focusing on Canadian poet Margaret Avison. Here's a summer-ish poem of hers (it has swimmer" from the Poetry i...

Thanks to Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey once again, I've discovered poet Tiana Clark. Read her poem "My Therapist Wants to Know about My R...

Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey recently recommended a collection by peot Omotara James, and I'm grateful for the recommendation. Read her poem ...

To mark Lindsey Graham's death, here is a brutal and necessary poem by Mohammed El-Kurd. Read "Tonight We Die as a Family" ov...

Pride Month is done, but I'd like to feature Emma Wells, a Pride staple at Oddball Magazine. Her poem "Fall" comes courtesy ...

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

You deserve a modern poet for Pride Month. So here's the stunning  "Ravens Aren’t Songbirds, and We’ll Never Meet Again" from...

Adrienne Rich is our Pride feature of the week. Thanks to Poets.org for reprinting "Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem II]."  

To continue Pride Month, here's Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric" at the Poetry Foundation website. Here's ho...

    People in their outrage forget that Allen Ginsberg belongs to the poets who are celebrated during Pride Month. Read "Footnote to Ho...

Ending May and Stone Soup's fifty-fifth anniversary month with an eye on the criminally underpublished Walter Howard, who passed aw...

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...

Joanna Nealon, the woman I dubbed the matriarch of Stone Soup Poetry, passed away in November.  Though her books are still available to buy ...

This May I'll mark Stone Soup's fifty-fifth anniversary by featuring some of its lost friends. I'll start with John Wieners, who...

    For the last Wednesday of National Poetry Month, I'm featuring Jennifer Martelli, another recently lost local poet. Read her poem, ...

    I'll spend this week and next focusing on poets who are no longer with us. Today, let us read "A Poem for Happy Endings" ...

People on my Facebook feed share poems all the time. ONe that really got to me was "The Committee Weighs In" by Andrea Cohen. Rea...

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