big thanks to Caitlin & the good folks at Marrow Magazine for nominating my poem “river montage (Nolin River Aubade #33)” for a Best of the Net award. congrats to my fellow nominees. marrowmagazine.com/river-montag...

I’ll be slinging tunes to raise some funds for the good folks at the Leitchfield Animal Shelter next month. See y’all at Mudd Fest 2025.

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slinging songs on the radio & interwebs this evening. check out the Community Music Alliance Facebook page at 7pm EST for a live vidyuh-stream. my set will be recorded live & rebroadcast on 106.5 WFMP FM & forwardradio.org this coming Saturday at 8pm EST, Sunday at 6pm EST, & Monday at 10am EST.

today marks the tenth anniversary of my website: www.ascoomer.com

it’s a write-two-sonnets kind of birthday morning.

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Nashville’s Bobby Row & Lauren Wanamaker are passing through Elizabethtown, KY to play an acoustic show at Flywheel Brewing on 10/17/25 at 7pm EST. I’ll be lending support. Free show! Bring yer friends!

From that pale mist Ghost swore to priest: ‘There sits no higher court Than man’s red heart.’ —Sylvia Plath, “Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest” #Reading #Poetry

Sponsored > Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize Submit now for Spring 2026 publication in The Heartland Review. Top prize: $400 gift card. Fee: $10 for 1-3 unpublished poems. No limit on style or length. Deadline: Oct 1. https://elizabethtown.kctcs.edu/community/theheartlandreviewpress/poetry-prize.aspx

Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. —Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” #Reading #Poetry

surprise! here’s another “bootleg” of a live performance. this one is from my 2017 concert at the art & performance center of west toledo. ascoomer.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

The president smiles to himself; he loves war And another one is coming soon. Each day we can feel the merriment mount In government offices and TV studios As our bombs fall on distant countries. —Charles Simic, “Dance of the Macabre Mice” #Reading #Poetry

my new record—live at the ottawa tavern—is out for your streaming pleasure—do that at all the usual places. if yer feeling generous consider purchasing the tracks from my bandcamp page. ascoomer.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Hello #Bluesky. I am thankful for meeting my first 100 followers. The #poetrycommunity here had been a blessing. The link is my #poetry collection 'Stick, Hook, and a Pile of Yarn,' through Broken Sleep Books. #amwriting #poem #poetsonbluesky www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness; As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men. —Walt Whitman, “Thought” #reading #poetry

Mick Kennedy & John Compton were the features for this month’s reading. youtu.be/yqYcphjbNIs?...

i’m saying life’s too short to be in a cover band youtu.be/bcj34TxIqBQ?... #PoetryReading #LivePoetry #Poetry #KentuckyPoet #ASCoomer #JamesBrown #Hamburger

spent the morning reading poems to the smallest ticks i’ve ever seen. this poem is called “hamburger.” it was pub’d in Home Planet News a couple weeks ago. #ASCoomer #LivePoetry #PoetryReading #Poetry #Poem #JamesBrown #KentuckyPoet youtu.be/bcj34TxIqBQ?...

Chris Dean & Wendy Cartwright were the featured poets at the monthly reading I host at Flywheel Brewing in Etown, KY. #Poetry #LiveReading #Poems youtu.be/Fmmenwgy-T8?...

…the rats are flying. For the rats have moved in, mostly, and this is for real. —John Berryman, “‘The Prisoner of Shark Island’ with Paul Muni” #Reading #Poetry

you ain’t never far away enough to not need the blues. —Tracie Morris, “Get Away 1928” #Reading #Poetry

read this poem, a morning in montpelier, to a slew of ticks, geese, & ducks. it was originally pub’d by #HomePlanetNews youtu.be/UQXoeZ_c4Ws?...

made these this morning. only 12 exist. come pick one up at the evansville reading tonight. “a morning in montpelier” is included in the new issue of #HomePlanetNews. #Poetry #ASCoomer #Chapbooks

slinging all new poems in evansville, indiana tonight. facebook.com/events/s/poe...

Issue 19 of the Home Planet News is out today & includes two of my poems: “hamburger” & “a morning in montpelier.” homeplanetnews.com/issue-19-coo... homeplanetnews.com/issue-19-coo... Make sure to check out the rest of Issue 19, which includes more poetry as well as fiction, song, & visual art.

Another banger afternoon of #Poetry at flywheel brewing yesterday. Our featured #Poets were Michael Duckwall & FroggCorpse. Their performances were dynamic and emotional. The All-Poetry #OpenMic was 🔥 as usual! See y’all next month (6/8/25)!

i’m yer host for #FlywheelBrewing’s #PoetryReading & All Poetry #OpenMic. our features today are Michael Duckwall & FroggCorpse. 3:45pm EST—6pm EST.

I’ll be slinging poems & songs at the second Bard & Busker Festival tomorrow at Brew Bridge in Owensboro. It’s a full day of art, literature, & music! I go on at 3pm CST. I’ll be slinging one poem at the Hardin County Public Library on Monday at 4pm EST for their Poetry Reading. See y’all soon!

slinging poems & songs in owensboro, kentucky this saturday for the second #BardAndBusker. i’ll be on at three pm central.

What a great reading from Lynnell Edwards & Kathleen Driskell yesterday. @spaldingwriting.bsky.social @kathdriskell.bsky.social Both have excellent new books out: Edwards’ THE BEARABLE SLANT OF LIGHT via Red Hen Press & Driskell’s GOAT-FOOTED GODS via Carnegie Mellon University Press.

I’m lucky to be included in the latest edition of The Heartland Review, which is full of amazing art & literature. I started college at ECTC, where THR is based, so it feels like a homecoming. youtu.be/xy45CChSY8E?...

been flooded in these past few days. read a lot. wrote poetry. watched lord of the rings. hung out with my mom. #NolinRiver #Flood #Kentucky

Stupidity isn’t funny. —Wisława Szymborska, “The Century’s Decline” #Reading #Poetry

left some #books at the little free library at #FreemanLakePark in #ElizabethtownKY yesterday

Slinging poems at Elizabethtown Community & Technical College this afternoon. #Poetry

The song choices were limited, so the grooves were dug deep. —Diane Seuss, “Juke” #Reading #Poetry @dseuss.bsky.social

Here’s a newer poem that was recently pub’d in #LiveNudePoems It’s called “black coffee blues”. #ASCoomer #Poetry #LiveReading #BlackCoffeeBlues

Who will remember the bleakness of this time? Who will recall it, later? —Diane di Prima, “The Loba Longs for Remembrance in the Bardo” #Reading #Poetry

New poem out today in #LiveNudePoems called “black coffee blues”. Thanks to editors Rusty Barnes & Heather Sullivan & thanks to you for looking. www.livenudepoems.com/2025/03/as-c...

America, you are grand in theory, poor in practice. You are not what I learned in grade school. — Maggie Smith, from “Tender Age” @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social #Reading #Poetry

slinging poems in bloomington this evening. come catch sets from Chris Dean and Nicholas Graham Hall plus an open mic.

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The art of losing isn’t hard to master. —Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art” #Reading #Poetry

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I’m yer host for Flywheel Brewing’s Poetry reading and all Poetry open mic. Our featured reader for March is Nashville’s Sara Minges. Signup to share yer work at 3:45pm EST. Sara will kick things off at 4pm EST. Bring yer friends!