Second Coming No. 221 — August 28, 2025 A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime

Second Coming No. 221 — August 28, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/secondco...

My poem "Liminal" is out in Right Hand Pointing: www.issues.righthandpointing.net/160

Second Coming No. 136 — June 4, 2025 A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime Robbie GambleHabeas Corpus You should have the body. She was asleepin bed wh…

So pleased to have my poem "Habeas Corpus" out as today's installment of the Second Coming project, a "poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime." Thank you to Michael Brodeur for sustaining this project:

Spectrum by Robbie Gamble

I have a new poem up at Psaltery & Lyre. Many thanks to Millie Tullis & team:

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary Renowned poet and author wins prize for series of New Yorker essays on suffering of Palestinians in Gaza

Well-deserved.

April is the clueless month.

Spring 2025 - Solstice Literary Magazine Dear Solstice Readers, In my introduction to the Winter 2024 issue I wrote about the importance of memory for writers. However, currently in the public sphere much of our communal memory, our history,...

Check out the Spring 2025 issue of Solstice: solsticelitmag.org/issues/sprin...

Emmett makes his poetry debut in “Chloe Goes to College,” appearing in the Pet Writing Contest issue of Boudin! Many thanks to the editors of The McNeese Review: www.mcneese.edu/thereview/20...

Aubade to Self by Robbie Gamble Aubade to Self morning’s gray filaments pry the curtains as I lie still floating a prayer for a scant of endurance, compassion, generosity— selfishly, of course but for all of us because despair is…

I have a poem up today at ONE ART. Many thanks to Mark Danowsky and Luisa Schnaithmannn:

One of the five things I did this past week was to make note of your exploding rocket.

Perseids, by Robbie Gamble You drag the dogs outfor a late-night pee throughthe carport, past compost bins festering with the self-same stardustthat flecks the dark vault abovethe drive. Quarter-moon scuds into a fringe of o…

I have a poem, "Perseids," up in the "Midnight" issue of Halfway Down the Stairs. Many thanks to Jeannie E. Roberts and Philip Watts Brown for gathering this beautiful new issue:

I really love this one.

I love this poem, and I had the pleasure of hearing Erin read it at Lesley a few years back. You could almost hear Seamus chortling in the background.

Robbie Gamble 2

Rise Up Review is a clarion voice in these turbulent times, and I'm honored to have my poem "Red-Eye" included in the just-released Winter 2025 issue. Kudos to Sonia Greenfield and team for reminding us that "resistance is fertile."

riseupreview.org/robbie-gambl...

Adoration of the Magi (Bosch, Madrid) - Wikipedia

Thank you, Heather! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adorati...

After the Prado A day spent wandering galleriesconnecting the dots across an arrayof Western Art’s greatest hits, and allI can think of now is a patch of triptychby Hieronymus Bosch, not the centralscene, where Ma…

The Indianapolis Review has long been a dream journal of mine, and I'm thrilled to bits to have a poem in the Winter 2025 issue! Thank you, Natalie Solmer, for putting this together in these darkening times, when we need poetry more than ever to stay sane and connected:

THIS is the Gulf of America:

Hi Melody! Good to see you. I'm so Luddite, that I think I'm on Substack, but not exactly sure what to do with it. Life was easier when we just sent postcards.

DOGEbags!