Blast from the past! First poem is the first poem from my book and the other two...I just forgot about? Or the editors cut them from my book? Who knows!

The first poem on this site ended up being the first poem in my book and my amazing wife (partner at the time) had this commissioned for me from that first poem to celebrate the publication of the book:

Had 3 poems from my new MS Kielbasa appear in the Bulb Region this weekend! Here's one of them. Visit their site for the others!

Blast from the past! First poem is the first poem from my book and the other two...I just forgot about? Or the editors cut them from my book? Who knows!

Starting to wonder if I should publish my HULK manuscript myself as a book OR as a website...though I'd love a press to give it a home.

@mrwojorising.bsky.social is the best, and so are these poems.

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Thank you, Erin!

Thanks! One of these is a favorite from my MS...

I’ve got 3 ekphrastic prose poems up at the Bulb Region! Very excited about all the amazing work Sarp’s been publishing and honored to be included.

Still fucking proud of this cover:

Earlier this year I got an email from a very known design group encouraging me to send a specific book cover to their contest.
Earlier today I got an email from a very known design group encouraging me to try again next year.
Shit was expensive to enter but I thought it'd be good career-wise...

Nice Weather for Ducks YouTube video by Lemon Jelly - Topic

Often have this stuck in my head when the weather starts to get nice:

youtu.be/gFeOa2vBZeI?...

I just found it while moving stuff around in my office. Excited to revisit it.

Best line in Wayne's World 2?
"People need to be entertained, they need the distraction. I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again. Why do they come to me to die? Why do they come to me to die?"

this is tonight!! 4 marvelous poets & writers whose work you will not want to miss :) 💡 click through to the quoted 🧵 to register!

Picked this up today and donated a lot of her stuff…

Made it through one week without my little girl. I keep looking up from my desk expecting her to waltz into my office and sit next to me.

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Trying to relax with a cinematic masterpiece:

As always, if you need a cover (or interior) designed, please don't hesitate to contact me! I feel like I haven't been designing enough covers this year and would love to correct that.

I think the world has ruined me on satire and I’m just quick to believe the worst in people now?

And they're not saying anything the rest of us haven't been saying for 2 years?

Unsuccessful satire is a dangerous thing...

I couldn't tell if shit like this was satire: "[AI] does everything for me, from managing workflow to offloading repetitive tasks to reminding me when to hug my kids."

I'm not AI, but I can just guess weekdays 8-9 and 5-6:30 are probably bad times to go grocery shopping as are weekends from 9-6. I didn't even take a sip of my water while figuring that one out.

I see people quoting from the 2nd half of the article as if they just skipped over the 1st half where it's like, "It's OK to use AI to calculate when the grocery store is less busy so you don't have to wait in line."

That's what I just read...

God. The number of writers I see published and/or celebrated who I personally know are problematic shitty people...

Way back when I was an undergrad, Michael Burkard would hand out poetry prescriptions.