Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes, 7-3-24

Braced for Impact

I’ll tell you the Chad News First

I’m on semi=haitus for the next week and a half. I should be fully back two Mondays from now. My access to the web will be sporadic at best. Maybe things will happen I’ll pop up and tell you about. Maybe not.But stuff is still happening today and tonight. Read on.

Stone Soup Poetry

Fan Flore III was our only June feature, but he was a good one. Read my most recent Stone Soup Croutons poem, “Holding Off.”

Linda Wlodyka is tonight’s feature. Then we take next week off and return on the 17th with Gabby Gilliam.

Oddball Magazine

Click here to read poetry by Scott Taylor, Zoé Mahfouz and Jake St. John with visual art by Jennifer Matthews, Bill Wolak and Edward S. Gault. Props to Monday’s timely flash fiction by Shannon O’Connor.

Extra props to our cartoonists Geoffrey Fallon (“The Secrets of Skinny People”), Anne Skove and to our new Comics Spotlight contribuor David Warner.

Jason managed to get a Jagged Thought poem column. I hope he’s back with more next week. This Friday will hopefully give us James Van Looy (It’s All One Thing), Janet Cormier (Bamboozled No More!), Bruce Wise (Wise Words). A Pride entry? Let’s hope so. Last week’s was a poem by Logan Anthony and artowrk by Robert Fleming. Read it here.

New Work Up

My poem "How to Win a Debate" is up at The Galway Review.

A Day Later

"Ruling" is my latest erasure poem on Medium. 

Miscellaneous

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

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

I have Medium articles coming out when I’m off this damn semi-hiatus.

I’ve done some TikTok videos about recent events. They’re kind of depressing.

I might have some Patreon work up next week, somehow.

Thanks for reading down this far.

Chad