I’ll tell you the Chad News First
Spent most of the weekend worrying about plans. Started to affect my stomach. It’s been days, and I realized the only thing to get over this nervous disorder is pure anger.
Thankfully, most days I have plenty of people to fuel my rage on an almost hourly basis.
Taking time off later in the week. Hope to have more projects finished. Still got a lot in the last few days. See below.
Stone Soup Poetry
Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey had an awesome feature last Wednesday. Read the latest Stone Soup Crouton poem, “Fundamentals.”
Tonight is the First (and possibly only) Open Mic Gathering of Lonely Bastards. Just in time for Valentine’s Day. Unite! Yes, I have a girlfriend, but I was on my own for so long, I am President Emeritus of the group.
Oddball Magazine
Click here to read poetry by Susan Isla Tepper, Strider Marcus Jones and Kelsey Stancliffe. Kudos to visual artists Glenn Bowie, Strider Marcus Jones and Bill Wolak.
Thanks to Mike Mesterton-Gibbons for starting us off with his timely acrostic skills. Much love to cartoonists Geoffrey Fallon (“The Secrets of Skinny People”), Anne Skove (“She Who Laughs Lasts”) and comics Spotlight contributor Mike Salva.
Jason Wright had a feisty poem column (Jagged Thought) this week. Tomorrow we have It’s All One Thing with James Van Looy. Friday we have Bamboozled No More! with Janet Cormier and Wise Words with Bruce Wise. I will be home Friday, so I should have some bonus material for Friday as well.
Me on the Wild Side?
My poem "Lou Reed at Heaven's Gate" is featured over at Fevers of the Mind. Thanks to David L. O'Nan for including my work again.
Garbage Out
My fifty-fourth Tuesday Poem is ready for all my paid Patreon subscribers to read.
Forget Me Kid
I got my Valentine's Day themed mini-poem "Custom Candy Hearts" accepted into dadakuku today! Thank you, petro c.k., for an equally timely response.
Miscellaneous
Check out my website and get a lot of the news before it winds up in this email. Also links to my social media.
Check my blog out for exclusive content and poetry news not related to Stone Soup.
I have work waiting to go up on my Medium publications.
The TikTok strike goes on, but only because I haven’t had any time. Hope to do my first longer video soon.
More coming to the Patreon. Thanks for your patience and support.
Thanks for reading down this far.
Chad