prompt i came up with: yer abducted by a pair of unknown beings. though u don’t understand their eerie language, u grasp they’re a bickering couple unsure what to do with u. write a Poem addressed to these beings in under 30-lines. bonus-points if u can bookend the poem w/ the same or similar word.
Cold in the heart and colder in the brain,
We blink in darkened rooms toward exists that are gone.
—Weldon Kees, “Xantha Street”
#Reading #Poetry #WeldonKees
they always start by killing the Poets. watch out for your people. this sonnet is for Renée Macklin Good, murdered in broad daylight in the middle of an american street by stormtroopers.
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The night has no thoughts heavier than itself.
—Bill Knott, from “Suicidal (or Simply Drunken) Thoughts on Being Refused a Guggenheim for the 11th Time” #Poetry
i get to host a wonderful #PoetryReading & #AllPoetry #OpenMic every month at Flywheel Brewing. peep these amazing #Poems from #JanLaPerle & #ClayMatthews
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I do not pity the dead, I pity the dying.
—James Wright, “At the Executed Murderer’s Grave” #Reading #Poetry #JamesWright
I host a monthly #PoetryReading & All-Poetry #OpenMic at Flywheel Brewing in Etown. Here’s #Meredith #reading #Poetry. Come catch a featured set of Meredith’s Poems on 2/8/26 at 3:45pm EST.
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i’m yer host for an all all-Poetry open mic today at flywheel brewing in elizabethtown, caintuckee. 3:45pm EST. bring dem Poems & friends on down to the best watering-hole in hardin county.
here’s a prompt i came up with for all y’all beautiful Poets:
you and your favorite childhood toy are reunited. what stories does the toy bring back? what does the toy think of the person you grew into? what would they remind you about the child you were?
had a blast slinging Poems at Underground Lit Fest a few weeks back. here’s the vidyuh of my 10 min set. much ❤️ to @oneldammit.bsky.social & @dandenton.bsky.social
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slinging lil sonnets to broken beer bottles in alleys across these disunited states. here’s a little draft.
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Got some copies of Memorabilia in. Hit me up if you want a signed copy.
“Broken balloons covering the holes
where my eyes used to be.”
—Juliet Cook
slinging #Poems in #TheGlassCity this weekend alongside #Poets from all over the country. come say hi #ToledoOhio
#ASCoomer #UndergroundLitFest #SmallPress #IndieArt #CultureClashRecords #AtticOnAdams
back in sept i played 13 songs live-on-air on michael logsdon’s radio show terra firma. you can stream them songs at all the usual places. if yer feeling generous you can dl the hi-res tracks from as coomer dot bandcamp dot com
#ASCoomer #TerraFirma #Live #SingerSongwriter #KentuckyMusic
live on terra firma is out on all the streaming services
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big thanks to Caitlin & the good folks at Marrow Magazine for nominating my poem “river montage (Nolin River Aubade #33)” for a Best of the Net award. congrats to my fellow nominees.
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I’ll be slinging tunes to raise some funds for the good folks at the Leitchfield Animal Shelter next month. See y’all at Mudd Fest 2025.
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Plath > Hughes
slinging songs on the radio & interwebs this evening. check out the Community Music Alliance Facebook page at 7pm EST for a live vidyuh-stream. my set will be recorded live & rebroadcast on 106.5 WFMP FM & forwardradio.org this coming Saturday at 8pm EST, Sunday at 6pm EST, & Monday at 10am EST.
it’s a write-two-sonnets kind of birthday morning.
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Nashville’s Bobby Row & Lauren Wanamaker are passing through Elizabethtown, KY to play an acoustic show at Flywheel Brewing on 10/17/25 at 7pm EST. I’ll be lending support. Free show! Bring yer friends!
From that pale mist
Ghost swore to priest:
‘There sits no higher court
Than man’s red heart.’
—Sylvia Plath, “Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest” #Reading #Poetry
Sponsored > Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
Submit now for Spring 2026 publication in The Heartland Review. Top prize: $400 gift card. Fee: $10 for 1-3 unpublished poems. No limit on style or length. Deadline: Oct 1.
https://elizabethtown.kctcs.edu/community/theheartlandreviewpress/poetry-prize.aspx
