g emil reutter and Diane Sahms kick off 2025 with January's edition of North of Oxford.
Friday, January 10, 2025
Tomorrow: Zoom over to Zumi's and See Me Feature
This Saturday afternoon will be my feature at ZUMI'S Espresso & Ice Cream in Topsfield, Massachusetts.
Thanks to Sarah Vickery for letting me read at this open mic.
I'll be reading from my new books All's Well Isn't You and Cant Republic. I'll have at least one of those books available as well as a giveaway or two.
Winter Wisdom
Wise Words by Bruce Wise closes out Oddball Magazine. Thank you for reading us this week.
Stone Soup Croutons, 1-8-25: In Waiting
Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.
This past Wednesday, Stone Soup returned with an all open mic. It was great to be back and reunite with everyone.
I have house maintenance to look over today. Here is another fitting poem for January.
Thanks for reading.
In Waiting
Viper makes intentions
know to anyone forced
to be around its nest.
Light wind says Call
me Zephyr, name in
end letter as end times
start shift. Growing
end letter as end times
start shift. Growing
Really Depressing
People really need to take their outdoor holiday decorations after New Year's Day. They just look sadder if you don't.
Leopards Eating Faces Update!
Judging from her recent Twitter posts, Brianna Wu seems determined to have the leopards eat her face next!
Thursday, January 09, 2025
Stone Soup Poetry Open Mic, 1-8-25
From this week's online gathering. 2025 is here and so are we! More open mic goodness and more features to come!
Not the Only One
I'm running behind, but James Van Looy's poem column is right on time. Check out It's All One Thing at Oddball Magazine.
Hello, 2025! Don't Hurt Us!
Stone Soup is back! I appreciate everyone coming out whether they just watched or participated in the open mic. The momentum continues next week with our first feature of the year, Jennifer Martelli.
Wednesday, January 08, 2025
F--k This Noise
Tonight is Stone Soup Poetry's first all-open mic of the year. It's going on no matter how many awful things are happening now.
Moving On
Poet Shontay Luna and photographer Bonnie Matthews Brock close out another Wednesday in 2025. So far so good! Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine today.
Seriously, Folks
I think AI is generating it's own sh---y ads at this stage. Are we saved or doomed?
An Anatomy Lesson
a great pairing of work by poet Paul Shovlin and artist Bill Wolak kicks off our Wednesday properly at Oddball Magazine. Glad you're here with us.
An Old Tale of Work Mischief at My Old Job
"Warm hand off" is a term that means (or so they told me) to hand something to a living person directly rather than just drop it off unattended. Makes sense. Nevertheless, when we saw this friendly reminder post-it one day, we all unintentionally do started doing our best Beavis and Butthead impressions.
A Moment of Comics
I wish the Brotherhood of Dada stormed the Capitol this past Monday. The Brotherhood steal Paris by way of mystical painting in Doom Patrol #37 by writer Grant Morrison, penciller Richard Case and inker John Nyberg.
American Haiku: Trump's Final Offer to Greenland
When I started my Sarcastic Haiku series, I wrote my first American Haiku.
An American Haiku doesn't care about tradition, formality or history. it takes as long as it wants to make its point because America. You can read
others I've written since by clicking here and scrolling down.
American Haiku: Trump's Final Offer to Greenland
Half a trillion!
Then I'll pay two trillion!
Your Wednesday Morning Poetry
Tara Skurtu featured "Empires" on Twitter recently and wanted to feature it here. I looked for it online and found it on the Poems on the Underground web site.
Tuesday, January 07, 2025
How It's Going?
Susan Isla Tepper and Glenn Bowie kick off the first Tuesday of the year at Oddball Magazine.
This Week's Most Distinguished Network Name
It's amazing what people will name their online networks. I'm always trying to hijack Wi-Fi when I'm commuting, so I often come across a number of interesting names. Every Tuesday, I post the most impressive and/or cringe-inducing names.
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| The things I learn doing this every week. |
Monday, January 06, 2025
Thank You, President Carter
Thank you for giving me a day off I didn't know I was going to badly need.
Chapter Fourteen
Steven David Justin Sills is back with the latest chapter of his ethics treatise, illustrated once again by Richard Spisak. Read it now at Oddball Magazine.
Back to Walking the Beat
Anne Skove gives us her first ocmic of 2025. Read the returning "She Who Laughs Lasts" now at Oddball Magazine.
A January 6 Special
A special poem up on my Patreon for paying and non-paying members. Pay as little as a buck to see all my secret poems.
Time to Take the Wind
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons gives us some news we can finally feel good about! Took a while, but breathe it in and read his latest acrostic over at Oddball Magazine. Welcome to the first full week of 2025.
New Interview
Check out this interview by g emil reutter over at North of Oxford wtih Alex Green over his new collection A Perfect Turmoil.
More Coming
I'm hunting down a Stone Soup feature for later in January.
They haven't responded yet.
More work is on the way.
This Wednesday, the newsletter returns.
Need to Post SOMETHING Happy
Given that nothing good is happening today, here's a picture Mom sent me on Friday of Twig wearing a sweater, looking like he could be one of the Dover Boys at Pimento University.
My Monday Morning Music
The event I'm going to is a John Coltrane tribute. I don't know much about John Coltrane except for his work with Miles Davis. So this week's set list will help educate me.
Sunday, January 05, 2025
Your Weekly Dose of God
Saw this cross graffiti in Mattapan again on New Year's Day. I don't know if the "Drugs Are The Devil" graffiti is from the same person/people or unrelated.
Saturday, January 04, 2025
March 13: Come Hear Me for a Feature Most Dire
I've read at Timothy Gager's Dire Literary Series twice. Once live a the Out of the Blue, once online.
I'm thrilled to be invited back for a third performance on Thursday, March 13.
Click the link here to join Tim's group and receive the directions to join online.
January 11: Zoom over to Zumi's and See Me Feature
I enjoyed Sarah Vickery's open mic at ZUMI'S Espresso & Ice Cream in Topsfield, Massachusetts.
I thank her for letting me come back as a feature on Saturday, January 11 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM.
I'll be reading from my new books All's Well Isn't You and Cant Republic. This will be my first live reading to promote the books.
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