Robert Eric Shoemaker
@robeshoe.bsky.social
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Author of Ca’Venezia and other books
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Robert Reich
3 days ago
“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.” Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
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I’m sorry to report that tomorrow’s Lost Songs Cafe performance in Louisville is canceled due to the weather. I’m sad to not be able to share my poem “Tomorrow, Overnight” and the collaborations with Chris Gleason and Emily Ravenscraft with you live, and I hope I’m able to soon.
#poetry
#amwriting
4 days ago
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One day in 1995, Bears legend Walter Payton was dining at Harry Caray’s before frantically running up four flights of stairs to see mobster Frank Nitti’s apartment. “He just started looking around like a detective,” becoming the unofficial tour guide for the rest of the day.
#chicagobears
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Dinner and a Show with the Chicago Mob
Behind the scenes of Nitti's Supper Club presents “Who Killed Eddie O’Hare? A True Crime History Mystery Musical” at Harry Caray’s Italian Steakhouse.
https://www.newcitystage.com/2026/01/23/dinner-and-a-show-with-the-chicago-mob/
7 days ago
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Fresh newsletter! Subscribe read a new poem from my Holocaust Remembrance project "Tomorrow, Overnight" and a new translation from the prayers of Saint Catherine.
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It’s 4 Degrees Outside
If you'd like to catch up on previous posts, visit "newsletter posts" from the menu on my website and enter the password: poetryismagic! Highlights: It’s 4 Degrees Outside “Dear Magnus” Saint Catherine’s Prayers Publications, Reviews, Happenings, & Whatnots - It’s 4 Degrees Outside So, I thought 18 degrees was bad, and then the universe elected to punish me for my silliness. As I write, it is 4 degrees outside and it’s mid-day. I hope you have dogs and/or cats to keep you company during the winter, too! -
http://reshoemaker.com/2026/01/21/its-4-degrees-outside/
9 days ago
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“Dear Magnus, You made me beautiful. I can never look in the mirror again, you’ve ruined me!
11 days ago
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My current favorite definition of metaphor! What’s yours? Thanks
@victoriachang.bsky.social
#poetry
#amwriting
15 days ago
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Mary Ruefle knows me
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30 days ago
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New Year, New Post! Featuring an upcoming live performance and excerpts of new erasures and essays!
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ICE from My Window
If you'd like to catch up on previous posts, visit "newsletter posts" from the menu on my website and enter the password: poetryismagic! Highlights: ICE from My Window Lost Song Cafe in Louisville January 27th "Mad Prophet, Mad Poet, Mad Composition" Publications, Reviews, Happenings, & Whatnots - ICE from My Window Happy turn of the year, friends. I've had a great holiday season spending time with friends and family and had a busy, productive December before that. I hope you've had time with loved ones and a bit of rest before the always alarming and disarming beginning of a new year!
http://reshoemaker.com/2025/12/30/ice-from-my-window/
about 1 month ago
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I’m the featured poet at The Lost Song Café on January 27th in Louisville, Kentucky! This is a FREE event in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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The Lost Song Cafe: Lost Communities Remembered in Song & Spoken Word
https://events.louisville.edu/event/the-lost-song-cafe-lost-communities-remembered-in-song-spoken-word
about 1 month ago
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“Caricatured as typewriter poet” WAS on my 2025 bingo card, and it got called just in time! (Do I win with just a postage stamp or…) Thank you Sam Nassau for copoeting with me at a rockin' wedding!
#poetry
#typewriter
about 1 month ago
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Typewriter poetry is best enjoyed with fireplaces
#poetry
#typewriter
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about 1 month ago
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Review: There’s nothing quite like a Manual Cinema production. They’re the kind of company that, once you’ve seen their work, becomes a point of comparison for other spectacles. I say with no exaggeration that anyone who enjoys theater should consider Manual Cinema’s productions required viewing.
about 1 month ago
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I’m incredibly honored that Spoon River Poetry Review nominated my love poem “With the Kiss of a Thousand Flowers” for a Pushcart Prize! “He brought me birds! hundreds of thousands of birds, Splitting the sky with song, With ‘you, you, you…’”
about 2 months ago
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Sarabande Books
about 2 months ago
⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️presents “Humanizing Medicine,” a free, virtual workshop with Katie Farris this Friday, December 12, at 12 PM EST. Link in bio to register—it’s free!
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Articles: Criticism, Essay, Journalism, Interview The following PDF includes samples of: “Chicago’s New Golden Age of Magic: A magic mansion with major funding enters a city where the art form already flourishes.” Feature Essay Newcity “Cruising Kentucky and Bulgaria: An Interview with Author…
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Articles: Criticism, Essay, Journalism, Interview
The following PDF includes samples of: “Chicago’s New Golden Age of Magic: A magic mansion with major funding enters a city where the art form already flourishes.” Feature Essay Newcity “Cruising Kentucky and Bulgaria: An Interview with Author Garth Greenwell” Interview Feature Queer Kentucky “This Is the Moment for Kokandy’s “Jekyll & Hyde”: Jaw-dropping vocals breathe life into a melodramatic cult favorite.” Theatre Review Newcity “Crane by Tessa Bolsover” Poetry Review Rain Taxi “‘A Public for Poetry’: On Harriet Monroe and Poetry” Exhibition Feature The Poetry Foundation…
http://reshoemaker.com/?p=3929
2 months ago
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Newest blog post, in montage style!
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FALL is Over
If you'd like to catch up on previous posts, visit "newsletter posts" from the menu on my website and enter the password: poetryismagic! Highlights: Ma Vie comme Montage Reviews on Reviews Publications, Happenings, & Whatnots - It has been a busy minute since I last posted! Thank you for reading and keeping up with me. In montage style, here's what I've been up to: Tucson, Arizona. Scene: a bar after the University of Arizona narrowly wins their homecoming match. 8 translators of poetry whispering in everyone's ears. A surprisingly successful time.
http://reshoemaker.com/2025/11/14/fall-is-over/
3 months ago
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“Let’s just be grown-up and pretend magic is real.” I interviewed several of Chicago’s biggest magic acts to write this in-depth story of today’s magic performance scene. Magic shows appeal to the kid in all of us, which I mean in the least dismissive way possible.
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Chicago's New Golden Age of Magic
A magic mansion with major funding enters a city where the art form already flourishes.
https://www.newcitystage.com/2025/09/15/magic-city-chicago-in-the-new-golden-age/
5 months ago
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Micro review of “Paper Money” by Winshen Liu!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8B16wSB/
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“Can you love someone if you don’t know their birthday?” from “Paper Money” by Winshen Liu - eat these poems up!#sealeychallenge #poetrytok #booktok #review #poetrytiktok
TikTok video by Robert Eric Shoemaker
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8B16wSB/
6 months ago
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8kv9oxN/
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“Feasting” from “Post-Eclipse: A Queer Home” by Jo Christian - youthful queer poems about (being) cryptids! ##poetrytok##sealeychallenge##booktok##review##queer
TikTok video by Robert Eric Shoemaker
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8kv9oxN/
6 months ago
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Bill Knott: Beat poetry, but make it short A micro review
#poetry
#sealeychallenge
www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...
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The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans
“Bill Knott writes stunning poems in which he wires the…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1938342
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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Ever adjuncted? Read this and fear for your kidneys (if you haven’t had to sell them yet)! First book of August: “this abattoir is a college” by Orchid Tierney
#sealeychallenge
6 months ago
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Subscribe to my newsletter at reshoemaker.com! This month's installment includes thoughts on AI as well as announcements.
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Hello/Goodbye July!
What I've been up to this month!
http://reshoemaker.com/2025/07/31/hello-goodbye-july/
6 months ago
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Say you’re teaching African American lit—which I may or may not be saying myself—what is your must read book from the last 20 years?
6 months ago
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What are you most excited to read during this August’s
#SealeyChallenge
? Convincing myself I’m gonna do it by continuing to ask others about it. Accountability!?
6 months ago
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Roses, such deep heat Wall of poems, each frame a friend Time stands still, staring
#poetry
#haiku
#poem
#amwriting
#letterpress
7 months ago
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I’m beyond pleased to be featured in Spoon River Poetry Review 49.2 - even though my “Hex on Elon Musk as a Portrait of Humanity” is so unfortunately ever-relevant!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SRPR 49.2 Launch Reading. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SRPR 49.2 Launch Reading. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZKnqZAqWQ3yDYpSbh_AiUg#/registration
7 months ago
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Just joked with my best friend who helped me get here that my sponsor was Heineken 0.0 and my twelve step was 6 packs of NA.
#sober
#sobriety
#nonalcoholic
#NAbeer
7 months ago
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Just Buffy floofin out
#cat
#floof
7 months ago
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I now have a window unit Which dehumidifies I must bleed it twice daily To let out the bad waters Please any god Send central air I sacrifice this condensation to you (again, maybe a poem)
#amwriting
#lifeupdate
#amnotcryingyouare
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7 months ago
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AC broken Rain outside If I can’t sleep anyway, why not take a shower? (a poem, maybe, but also very real life)
7 months ago
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New article with
@queerkentucky.bsky.social
! So much fun talking throuples and art
7 months ago
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New article @queerkentucky about Hollyn-Reid's queer Community Filing Cabinet! It was interesting chatting with him about archives and the very down-to-earth processes by which we preserve our memories. Check it out!
queerkentucky.com/ashland-arch...
7 months ago
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I had the honor of interviewing author Garth Greenwell for Queer Kentucky! Read the article here:
queerkentucky.com/cruising-ken...
8 months ago
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Yesterday was poetry mail day! So excited for new poetry by
@alinaetc.bsky.social
and
@elliephantshoes.bsky.social
and the beautiful new issue of Tiny Spoon! Go read all that gorgeous goodness.
8 months ago
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I'm excited to share that I'll be a guest editor for this fall's issue of The Louisville Review! Send in your work for consideration. Submittable opens June 1 and closes June 6, and submissions are capped at 200. Get in there!
thelouisvillereviewfleur-de-lispress.submittable.com/submit
8 months ago
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Why I Haven’t Replied to your Message on Social Media and other May Whatnots If you'd like to catch up on previous posts, visit "newsletter posts" from the menu on my website and enter the password: poetryismagic! Highlights: Why I Haven't Replied to your Message on Social Media Update on Magical…
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Why I Haven’t Replied to your Message on Social Media and other May Whatnots
If you'd like to catch up on previous posts, visit "newsletter posts" from the menu on my website and enter the password: poetryismagic! Highlights: Why I Haven't Replied to your Message on Social Media Update on Magical Poetics "Ars Poetica" Barely South Review and Spoon River poems Featurette: Why I Haven't Replied to your Message on Social Media I've been doing something new and really nice for myself the past two months: I've deleted all social media apps from my phone (except for LinkedIn, which barely counts, and Snapchat, which I use sparingly).
http://reshoemaker.com/2025/05/25/why-i-havent-replied-to-your-message-on-social-media-and-other-may-whatnots/
8 months ago
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Publications day! Thank you William and @barelysouthreview for publishing "Again," my lil desirous poem, and @srpr_news for including my Hex inside this beautifully-covered volume! It's a lovely day to read a poem :)
9 months ago
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Flufflet mourning dove chicks Puzzle over each other Ruffle wet feathers in fog Mother flies off Robins nearby, watching The children find their way Subscribe to my newsletter to read the rest!
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Frostburg State, Some Poems, and April Publications
If you’d like to catch up on previous posts, visit “newsletter posts” from the menu on my website and enter the password: poetryismagic! Highlights: Featurette: Frostburg State Un…
https://reshoemaker.com/2025/04/30/frostburg-state-some-poems-and-april-publications/
9 months ago
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Frostburg State, Some Poems, and April Publications If you'd like to catch up on previous posts, visit "newsletter posts" from the menu on my website and enter the password: poetryismagic! Highlights: Featurette:…
http://reshoemaker.com/2025/04/30/frostburg-state-some-poems-and-april-publications/
9 months ago
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"Does it bear stating that history, like all knowledge, does not develop by decree? Nor does it belong to any one entity, least of all the state. Rather, it is developed through debate, discussion, and dialectic, fuelled by reflexivity, doubt, and an awareness of our limitations."
10 months ago
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Wouldn't this be amazing
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10 months ago
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John Scalzi
10 months ago
Don't get excited. But maybe you can get a little excited about the possibility of getting excited. (Also, this is exactly the sort of stuff the current administration is planning to defund. Fuck those dudes.) Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
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Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/science/astronomy-exoplanets-habitable-k218b.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU8.jZ4y.qtIwOvBtnAlK&smid=url-share
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In this moment when resistance and action can feel difficult or futile, it's important to remember that little things can make a big impact.
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Zines, Guides, & Research
Zines, Guides, & Research
https://invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides-research/#flipbook-df_102985/1/
10 months ago
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I'm excited to read at Main Street Books in Frostburg next week! Check out the event in my bio/Linktree if you're around the Frostburg area!
10 months ago
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We did it! Thank you to everyone who donated to Tupelo Press on my behalf in March; I raised $375 with your help, and I’m so grateful for your support and readership. Thank you Tupelo for the opportunity, and Kirsten Miles for shepherding us! My orchids bloomed in celebration!
10 months ago
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Here are a few of my latest poems intermingled with some poems by other writers throughout the month! Go to the March page to read them in full (screenshots are partial).
#poetry
#amwriting
10 months ago
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Only $55 until I reach my donation goal for @tupelopress and 30/30 this month! One week left. Please donate if you're able, and remember, if you donate $25 or more I'll write a poem based on a prompt you give me AND send you a postcard. What a deal! Give me the silliest prompt you can come up with!!
10 months ago
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it followed with swarm in her. she altered the quest ion, said, Will anyone beautiful left say Farewell? For the scoop on how I'm writing these and instructions to write your own, hit up my newsletter!
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11 months ago
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My self-loathing is loathsome, especially to me. I try to remind myself that it’s okay to be thirsty, okay to ask for more, okay to bare a raw throat and say, even this hurts: my pain is only comparable to what I remember of pain. From today's 30/30 poem with Tupelo Press
11 months ago
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