I’ll Tell You the Chad News First
Hope you all survived the nor’easter or whatever storms came your way over the weekend. I spent most of it prepping for the month ahead. I have some busy weekends coming up. My actual work weeks will seem like a breeze. After this Sunday, I’m hoping things start to really turn for the best.
I didn’t do too much writing while wrapping up my fiscal year stuff, so imagine all the surprises that came through both physical and electronic mail.
There’s been an outpouring of appreciation coming my way. I’ll say it again: The one thing I don’t know how to react quickly to is a compliment.
But I’m trying.
Thanks for all your kind words this week.
Buy My Two Books
My two collections All’s Well Isn’t You and Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts are now one year old. Consider purchasing on that sire, or you can also pay me $15 directly through Venmo (@Chad-Parenteau-1) to get a signed copy of Cant Repbublic.
Stone Soup Poetry
Lee Desrosiers had an amazing feature last week.
I now owe you all four Stone Soup Crouton poems.
One more all-open mic tonight. I’m having a good feeling about October. Be back next week for special feature Mignon Ariel King.
Oddball Magazine
Click here to read poetry by Floyd Largent, Russell Thorbun and Emily Jo Scalzo with visual art by Glenn Bowie, Jennifer Matthews and Eric N.Peterson.
Gave us another acrostic limerick to kick off Monday with the return of heightened political poetry by Lynn White with photography by Jack Marty. Anne Skove returned with her comic “She Who Laughs Lasts” and we said hello to new Oddball Stories contributor Kara J Page.
Jason Wright could deliver his Jagged Thought poem column last week. I’m grateful for Richard Spisak for providing poetry and artwork for Jason’s spot. Be around Thursday and Friday for James Van Looy (It’s All one Thing), Janet Cormier (Bamboozled No More!) and Bruce Wise (Wise Words). Oh, and check out Luis Lázaro Tijerina’s poem marking the death of Pablo Neruda here.
It’s Been a While
Thirteen years after our last interview, g emil reutter has published another interview with me at the North of Oxford site he curates with Diane Sahms. Thanks to g for catching up with me!
Beautiful Chaos
My poems “There’s Options” and “In Plain Sight” appear in The Chaos Section Poetry Project’s latest anthology, Uprooted. Thanks to Editor Nick Allison and Rachel Armes-McLaughlin for including me in another one of their publications reflecting the current times.
Check Out the SPREAD
SPREAD is an honest to God monthly print poetry journal put out by Chris Dusterhoff, who published a poem of mine in the new October issue. Glad to published alongside work by Chris, Willie Smith, John A. Hendricks and others. Consider getting a one-year subscription for #20 by PayPaling spankstra@hotmail.com
Everything Was Scary
It’s Later Now, Part Fifty-Five: Overnight Crew. Read it on my Patreon.
Memories
Never Say, Part Three: Clocked Out. Read it on my Patreon.
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.
Visit my blog out for exclusive content and poetry news not related to Stone Soup.
My incomplete Medium pieces are dangling in front of me, waiting for me to finish them.
I’ve put a lot of fun nonsense on TikTok the past few days. Something more substantial coming up soon.
Some Patreon excluse work coming soon? The new series is going well.
Thanks for reading down this far.
Chad Parenteau
Terrific substack !!!
amazing poem in the resistance book, Chad!!!