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Dad, writer; loves poetry, photography, music, art, and the Mets; Notre Dame alum; career in Public Relations - NYC & NJ - https://linktr.ee/bvar

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St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC

Empty cathedral
#photography

04.03.2026 20:04 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bishops gathered in the back of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, under a mural of an angel

Bishops gathered in the back of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, under a mural of an angel

A flock of bishops
Under a guardian angel,
Discussing Heaven

Monday #haiku (62)

02.03.2026 15:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Open mic at the beautiful Hackensack library tonight

27.02.2026 02:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Great Falls, viewed from the recently reopened pedestrian bridge. #waterfalls #patersonnj TikTok video by Bob Varettoni

This weekend, before the snow www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xh9hyC/

25.02.2026 13:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The pulpit at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City

The pulpit at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City

Stairs leading to the pulpit at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City

Stairs leading to the pulpit at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City

Angel-filled pulpit
In an empty cathedral.
Stairway to heaven.

Monday #haiku

23.02.2026 14:52 👍 31 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
9th Ave and 42nd St., street view in the rain

9th Ave and 42nd St., street view in the rain

NYC’s skyline, shrouded in half by fog

NYC’s skyline, shrouded in half by fog

The walk to the bus… and the view on the ride home
#photography #nyc

21.02.2026 04:23 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“Retirement Plan” (2026 Oscar Nominee) | The New Yorker
“Retirement Plan” (2026 Oscar Nominee) | The New Yorker YouTube video by The New Yorker

This is very sweet. youtu.be/2Mqa4zfJdx4?...

20.02.2026 18:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Facing a mental health crisis, an NJ school pulled a beloved novel from English class — NPR Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was removed from an English class at the public school. PEN America says it’s part of a trend of scrubbing literature dealing with uncomfortable topic...

Thoughts? (via @npr.org) apple.news/A3qawDjGGQba...

20.02.2026 16:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Why Do You Write? That was the prompt at The Writers Circle today, Medium’s virtual meetup where I met writers from around the world.

I just published Why Do You Write? medium.com/p/why-do-you...

19.02.2026 16:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My Debut as a 'Featured Poet' Finding my way in New Jersey, with posts about family and work, writing and photography, books… and baseball.

About my first time as a “featured #poet”

varettoni.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-d...

17.02.2026 16:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The sincerest prayers
come from the back of the church,
not from the altar.

(Photo by Fred Levine)
#mondaymorninghaiku📝

This is part of a #poetry reading I did yesterday. Read about it at the link tree in my bio.

16.02.2026 15:19 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Caturday 🙂

14.02.2026 15:50 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

14.02.2026 02:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My first "featured poet" reading... Sunday in Little Falls, NJ

13.02.2026 22:32 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you

11.02.2026 18:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A barista turns tragedy into a coffee shop where customers can caffeinate and cry — Los Angeles Times Tommy Le turned his own personal tragedy and community-minded spirit into a place where customers can channel love and loss.

This Long Beach coffee shop encourages customers to write notes to deceased loved ones, exes or even versions of their past selves... like #poetry
apple.news/AR7Tutt-jTtK...

11.02.2026 14:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
A photo of two hooded people with backs turned, viewing "The Lovers" by Magritte at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

A photo of two hooded people with backs turned, viewing "The Lovers" by Magritte at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Love is a mystery,
reflecting past and present.
Life imitates art.

Monday #haiku (59)

09.02.2026 13:53 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My view earlier today during setup for vespers tonight at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York

05.02.2026 21:42 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This. Via @postbaron.bsky.social

04.02.2026 17:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who remembers going to Catholic school and having their throat blessed on Feb. 3, the Feast of St. Blaise?

03.02.2026 14:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Empty Sky 9/11 memorial in New Jersey

Empty Sky 9/11 memorial in New Jersey

In memoriam.
The names of our heroes etched
in halos of light.

Monday #haiku (58)

02.02.2026 13:19 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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What’s With That Voice People Use When Reciting Poetry?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. "What's with that voice people use when reciting #poetry?" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/a...

02.02.2026 13:02 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 3
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In support of New Jersey #poet Felicia Sherelle, and her new book, “So Good”

02.02.2026 00:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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5 poems for troubled times, from Virginia’s new Lt. Governor Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.

Gift article: wapo.st/4bw8Elh

01.02.2026 17:48 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Artivists Unite! How best to highlight social issues to inspire change?

I just published Artivists Unite! medium.com/p/artivists-...

31.01.2026 18:15 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

You have to like short stories where the main character is named Bob 🙂

31.01.2026 15:41 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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15 beautiful pictures of NYC under snow — Time Out New York New York’s first big snowstorm of the season turned streets into snow globes.

New York in the snow... apple.news/AYCPFB4v9Qam...

27.01.2026 03:33 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Trite Words (in the form of a sonnet) Finding my way in New Jersey, with posts about family and work, writing and photography, books… and baseball.

A related sonnet: varettoni.blogspot.com/2026/01/trit...

26.01.2026 18:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My hobby these days:
Fiddling off-key while Rome burns.
Guilty, like Tim Cook.

Monday #haiku 📝 (57)

26.01.2026 15:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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"How can one make a life out of six cardboard boxes full of tailor's bills, love letters and old picture postcards? Yes, writing lives is the devil."
Virginia Woolf, born on this day in 1882

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