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"Son of God" was released via Spartan Press in 2024. Check it out for some deconstructive goodness.
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Son of God out at Spartan Press "These poems are new generation prayers and meditations that expose truths with humor and hard-fought wisdom in a collection that will resonate with many." -Kevin Ridgeway, author "Too Young to Know, "Invasion of the Shadow People."
#poetry
#deconstruction
#writing
12 months ago
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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻
about 1 month ago
It’s getting closer to holiday sales and shopping. Instead of spending money at a big box store or putting money in a billionaires pocket… shop small!! If you have a small business or are a small time creator (that means artists and indie authors too!) share your links/work below.
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The incredible Squirrel Nut Zippers. Killer show.
#jazz
#squirrelnutzippers
29 days ago
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New York, New York - October 2025. Poetry in motion.
#NY
#newyork
#nyny
#poetry
#photography
about 2 months ago
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Gorgeous day to be headed in for lecture. "Campus Visitor"
#photography
#art
#monarch
#nature
#butterfly
2 months ago
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During the Satanic panic of the 80s, Ozzy was the sensible, safer alternative to bathshit crazy evangelical parenting. Anti-war, critical of capitalism, and a dad that showed up.
#Ozzy
was a
#deconstruction
icon. The "Prince of Darkness" was more christ-like than any mega church preacher.
5 months ago
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Trying to get up and running over on Instagram and would appreciate a follow if you have the time. "Haunted" from
#sonofgod
is posted in full over there now.
#kansaspoet
#poetry
#poet
5 months ago
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One of the coolest people I've gotten to briefly meet.
#thedoctor
#Davidtenant
#doctorwho
I got a
#jessicajones
themed signing though. All around nice dude.
#sometimesmeetyourheroes
5 months ago
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"Why don't Presidents fight the war? Why do the always send the poor?" System of a Down. For no reason on a
#saturdaynight
6 months ago
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World on fire, but hey, man, daughters bought me scratchers, and I have won a dollar and a chance at a thousand tomorrow. Here's to tomorrow.
#daughters
#fathersday
6 months ago
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#nokings
6 months ago
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Explosion of
#Spring
blooms. Original
#photography
from a
#kansas
garden.
8 months ago
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"Poetry is chain smoking" from "Son of God," 2024 Spartan Press, Kansas City. "Menthol flavored madness cooling the tongue..."
#kansascity
#writing
#poetry
8 months ago
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#spring
#inbloom
#photography
. Damn beautiful weekend so far.
8 months ago
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Some pre-work
#photography
on a new acrylic
#art
piece for the spring. My Cherry Blossom was looking gorgeous this evening.
9 months ago
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Being dad to the coolest.
#kansaswedding
#dad
9 months ago
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Good 'ol
#KC
at The Savoy last week. Missing spring break already
#kansascity
9 months ago
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This one was just for fun (and a birthday present) - "Mid-century Sunset"
#painting
#acrylic
#art
10 months ago
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What would
#Hellboy
do?
#fuckfascists
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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George Takei
10 months ago
Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.
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"We're going to find out what happened and do what it takes to make sure it never happens again. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families for this tragic loss," was all that needed to be said about Flight 587. THAT is Presidential. But no, here comes some old turd blaming black people.
11 months ago
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TheHadou
11 months ago
If it exists you can refine it — but it must exist first. Make the sketch. Combine the ingredients. Try the routine. Be not deterred. You can make it perfect faster with the experience gained.
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Mixing up some landscape with sharp abstract tones and shapes. "Storm's Comin'." Featuring contributions from the kiddo sitting on my lap yesterday afternoon.
#painting
#kansasart
#artists
#acrylic
11 months ago
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An older
#abstract
from when I first started. A Reflections off a
#Chicago
skyline, named "untitled effort." Related
#poem
"untitled effort," beside. A day that signaled the death of a relationship, but was the birthplace of art. Poem from
#sonofgod
#poetry
#writersky
#trauma
11 months ago
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Evan Dorkin
11 months ago
Commit the sin of empathy.
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Eric Palicki, but festive.
11 months ago
THE meme of 2025 for me.
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Those looking for topical fiction during these funky times should check out After the Revolution by
@iwriteok.bsky.social
. Also, play Cyberpunk 2077. It'll be good tears and good therapy. Dystopian fiction was supposed to be a warning, not a mirror. Here we are.
11 months ago
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sara gray 🩶📚
11 months ago
now’s the time to start buying the physical copies of your favorite books,
#booksky
– they can take your kindle/digital copies away at any time
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Kansas is more "frozen hell" than rolling summer prairie currently, but I like the way this piece of mine from last summer shows how types of light affects color.
#Kansas
#painting
#art
11 months ago
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#tulips
12 months ago
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Kathleen Gresham Everett
12 months ago
Dusk lights his pipe leaning against the fence post awaiting twilight
#dailyhaikuprompt
short day
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Uncle Duke
12 months ago
“Thanks, man. Where was I? Oh yeah, so it was December, and I just wanted to get out of the cold. I knocked on some random guy's door. I’m tellin’ ya, dude was out of his friggin' mind! He kept asking me a bunch of super weird questions and whining about some chick named Lenore."
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Son of God out at Spartan Press "These poems are new generation prayers and meditations that expose truths with humor and hard-fought wisdom in a collection that will resonate with many." -Kevin Ridgeway, author "Too Young to Know, "Invasion of the Shadow People."
#poetry
#deconstruction
#writing
12 months ago
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Man,
#duneprophecy
sure landed an incredible season. Worth checking out even if you aren't a Dune fan/familiar. A good fit for the hole left by Agatha All Along. Much darker, but full of witchy sisterhood and regular doses of backstabbing.
#dune
12 months ago
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Wishing everyone a pleasant
#yule
as the last of the week burns out. Stay safe and warm everyone! The highways are already spicy.
12 months ago
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Texture work in paint and print. Penciled from
#sonofgod
#poetry
about 1 year ago
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IanHall24959
about 1 year ago
Have you ever Walked backwards through a mirror Into a space between thoughts? Where everything is nothing No light or darkness one of the realms One of the states Where nothing is measured Not even time
#poetry
#poet
#poem
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Seasonal work
about 1 year ago
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CHRISTmass
#poetry
#kansaswrites
#immigrants
#christmass
about 1 year ago
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Clarence Carvel
about 1 year ago
#internationalmensday
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Recent painting to get shit all festive. The color work was fun. That many bricks were not.
about 1 year ago
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Holiday break has set in well enough to start making the move over to bluesky after abandoning X. Here's a piece I had in
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
last year.
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I realize that Frostis fine and that oneshouldn’t be a Kant,but I prefer Carmelitato getting blood on the tracks. A cigarette and a love poem is cliche, but half an Ambien and a bottle o…
https://rejection-letters.com/2022/08/11/worked-rob-yates/
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