Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes, 3-12-25

I am not looking forward to Sunday

Mar 12, 2025

Better output this week. Working on more. It might have to come after the weekend.

Remember, kids: Saint Patrick’s Day is pigshit!

I call Saint Patrick the patron saint of snakes and urinals, given how much the out-of-towners piss all over my home over the weekend.

I don’t room for any more unpleasantness to talk about this week. There’s plenty, but I can’t be bothered.

Offering autographed books of my collection Cant Republic. Message me if you’re interested.

Buy My Two Books

My two collections All’s Well Isn’t You and Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts are available for purchase.

All’s Well has been called “[a]stunning work of original poetry that delves into the Bukowski-esque nether-regions of the psyche and comes up shining with a rollicking, stunned silence of the three-in-the morning, whiskey-soaked poetic journey into the hazy memory of yesterday.” Order it here.

Cant Republic was recently called “an interesting, provocative, and ultimately terrifying rumination on the words of one of the most divisive figures in modern politics.” Order it here.

I appreciate your support.

Stone Soup Poetry

Nike Truth did a wonderful job last Wednesday. Read the latest Stone Soup Crouton poem, “When Doves Hide.”

An all-open mic tonight. It’s yet to be posted, but you should come back next week for a feature by Lee Eric Freedman.

Oddball Magazine

Click here to read poetry by Yolanda Ampomah, Richard Weaver and Lily Tierney with visual art by Edward Michael Supranowicz, myself and Jennifer Matthews.

Thanks to Shannon O’Connor for providing poetry and photography for our opening salvo. Steven David Justin Sills reunites with artist Richard Spisak to present another chapter of his ethics treatise. We also had a great one-two comics punch by Anne Skove (“She Who Laughs Lasts”) and returning Comics Spotlight contributor Hoss.

Jason has a mega drop for this week’s Jagged Thoughts poem column. This Thursday, we have James Van Looy (It’s All One Thing), Janet Cormier (Bamboozled No More!), and Bruce Wise (Wise Words).

Tomorrow

I'll be featuring online at Timothy Gager's Dire Literary Series this Thursday on March 13.

Click the link here to join Tim's group and receive the directions to join online. I'll be posting them again next week as I always do for Dire events.

March 18: The Jules’ Poetry Playhouse Roundtable

Join in via Zoom on March 18 as John Roche of Jules' Poetry Playhouse hosts Q&A roundtable celebrating the fifth five-year anniversary of poetry open mics on Zoom.

I'll be answering questions virtually alongside fellow open mic hosts Sandy Yannone of Connecticut's Cultivating Voices, Patricia Carragon of New York's Brownstone Poets and Billy Brown of New Mexico's Fixed & Free.

The event goes from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM ET. Click here for more information.