Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes, 3-5-25

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I’ll Tell You the Chad News First

I still miss Cambridge. There was a wonderful seminar with Toni Bee that I forgot to promote here. There’s another coming up this month, and this time I won’t forget.

Took an Uber ride yesterday and spoke with someone who started in his own health care service and is waiting on private funding.

He was also a minister who had to help provide last right’s to pandemic victims in the early days.

I left with his card. I hope I didn’t misplace it already.

Fighting for my survival. Haven’t felt like this since the days I was thankful for free food from drug reps at my first hospital job.

Trying to write after work with the hopes that it can sustain me a little if push comes to backstab. You’ll see more work soon.

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

Thanks for a wonderful feature, Megha Sood. Read the latest Stone Soup Crouton poem, “Let the Left Behind Leave Behind.”

Nike Truth features tonight, and I can’t wait. Aother feature annoucement coming soon.

Oddball Magazine

Click here to read poetry by Susan Isla Tepper, Keith Nunes and Benjamin D. Carson with visual art by Alexis Rhone Fancher, Keith Nunes (again) and Peter Urkowitz.

We’re still looking for timely work! Thanks to Mike Mesterton-Gibbons and Richard Spisak for carrying the timely section for us for another week. Props to cartoonist Anne Skove (“She Who Laughs Lasts”) and returning Oddball Stories contributor Eric Green.

Jason Wright came through again with another Jagged Thought poem column. Come back Thursday and Friday for fellow poem columnists James Van Looy (It’s All One Thing), Janet Cormier (Bamboozled No More!), and Bruce Wise (Wise Words).

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 next Thursday, March 13.

Click the link here to join Tim's group and receive the directions to join online.

Scratching That Itch

I was part of last Thursday’s ensemble of poets up at Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry). Thanks to Roberta Beach Jacobson for including me witch such poets as Noah Berlatsky, Bob Carlton and many others.

A Wintry One

Ode to My Second Appendix Part Eight. Read "Not Getting Any" over at my Patreon.

Fooling Around

"Crypt Keeper" is my latest Truth Social blackout poem for Medium.

Getting Closer to the End

Tuesday Poem Seventy-One is up now at my Patreon. Subscribe to read all my poems in this series and other secret projects.

Miscellaneous

Check out my website and get a lot of the news before it winds up in this newsletter. Also includes links to my other social media.

Check my blog out for exclusive content and poetry news not related to Stone Soup.

My Medium work is coming.

Had fun on TikTok last week. Doing more soon in light of the SOTU.

Patreon is ramping up again. Maybe I can finish my Tuesday poem series before the end of March.

Thanks for reading down this far.

Chad