A new one from me inspired by, well, this whole year...

Many thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for including a couple diminutive verses in her journal of extremely short poetry, SMOLS. Congrats to today's other featured poets, check out everything here: smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com solving for fragile X * midnight with moves like Jager

I've started up a new journal! POST-KU will be a journal of post-ku that comes out every two months on a postcard. Submissions will open up in December, first issue will be out in January.

Many thanks to editor Tony Pupello of tsuri-dōrō for selecting a verse to appear in the current issue. It's always a pleasure, hello and congratulations to everyone else! tsuridoro.org/issue-30-nov...

A pleasant surprise to be awarded an Honorable Mention in this year's Porad Haiku Awards which were announced at the Seabeck Haiku Getaway. Congrats to fellow Seabeck attendees John S Green and Sarah Paris for their 2nd & 3rd place awards, respectively! www.haikunorthwest.org/porad-haiku-...

The new Seaback Haiku Getaway Anthology is out now. I did the cover design and layout, and got a couple verses included as well. You can get a copy here: a.co/d/1rh4vQq

Excited to appear in the new issue of Password, A Journal of Very Short Poetry! Many thanks to editor Melissa Allen for including 3 of my monoku!

Many thanks to Tanya McDonald for selecting my monoku for the latest issue of Kingfisher. Wonderful to see her and others at Seabeck Haiku Getaway right now. It's been so fun catching up, learning new things, and just getting to see everyone in person that I only usually see in the online world.

A new verse from me befitting the times. I'm getting my signs ready for today.

A shot I took from a little walk around Quebec City about a week ago.

Horror Senryu Journal is back from being on hiatus! Many thanks to Thomas Tilton for running my verse as the first one out of the gate!

smols is a new journal by Roberta Beach Jacobson (editor of Five Fleas, former editor of Cold Moon), featuring verses of 5 words or less. The latest round is up now, many thanks for being included! smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com

Always stoked to appear in Trash Panda Haiku, many thanks to editor Lisa Anne Johnson for selecting my verse for issue 9, hello and congratulations to all those who also appear! 👋

The latest from me on @dadakuku.bsky.social:

Many thanks to editors Sally Quon and Michele Rule for selecting my verse to be one of eight from newcomers to debut inside of this week's Solitary Daisy! Congratulations to the rest, the others can be seen at: thesolitarydaisy.ca/blog/

Many thanks to guest editor Marietta McGregor for selecting my verse for the short list of verses on the theme of islands, and for the commentary, in this week's Haiku Dialogue at @haikufound.bsky.social! Congratulations to the rest! 👇👇👇 thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

Many thanks to @jeromeberglund.bsky.social for selecting my verse for Heterodox Haiku: Contrarians, haiku that goes against the grain. An excellent collection. The essays by @loverpoetic.bsky.social and @shortpoemz.bsky.social are also must-reads. 👇 archive.org/details/hete...

Many thanks to guest editor @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social for selecting my work for this week's short list of verses for @haikufound.bsky.social in reaction to the work "Without Hope" by Frida Kahlo, and for the immensely thoughtful commentary. #haikufoundation #haikudialogue #haiku #ekphrasis

Many thanks to Prune Juice editors P.H. Fischer and Antoinette Cheung for selecting a couple verses of mine and a tan-renga with @jeromeberglund.bsky.social, and for their tenure at the helm as they are stepping down, and congratulations and welcome to new editor Pippa Phillips, a worthy successor!

Life has sidelined my momentum in writing and submitting, but here's a poem processed out of another unfinished work of mine:

As much as I really want to go to the HSA Conference this year, I don't think it's in the cards for me, which is a shame since it's relatively close to me (on the same coastline at least). I might be able to swing the Seabeck Conference again this year though, so we'll see. 🤞

Many thanks to guest editor @allyson.whipple for selecting my verse for this round of Haiku Dialogue focusing on ekphrastic Haiku. This is based on Emily Carr's "Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky." Hello and congratulations on the rest who appear! 👋 thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

Writer copies of my new chapbook "...botApa̲r̲t̲!" are now in my hands, many thanks to @stonecorpse.com for welcoming my latest Dada-esque explosion into the fold. If you want a signed copy ($7 ppd US, $10 ppd World), hmu!

Many thanks to editor Tanya McDonald for selecting a verse of mine to appear in the latest issue of Kingfisher! As always, an honor to appear, and a shout out to local Seattle artist @davidlasky.bsky.social for the great cover!

...!botApart by petro c.k. @petrock.bsky.social is available for preorder stonecorpse.com/petro-c-k/ "petro c.k.’s latest explosion of joyful nonsense confirms that chaos and absurdism are alive and well," 7$ Express and free shipping options.

"...!botApart by @petrock.bsky.social mines thoughtfully into the rigorously bound expectations and what results is an orgiastic fervor of pandemonium, an avant-garde concept album from a poet at the top of his genre." —Jerome Berglund @jeromeberglund.bsky.social stonecorpse.com/petro-c-k/

Many thanks to @stonecorpse.com for publishing my latest chapbook, ...!botApa̲r̲t̲ It is a reaction and a sublimation of the rise of dreamslop, as it gets mulched into another form of literature outside of the purview of AI, one of abstraction and chaos. Come join in the absurdity!

I've been itching to get back at writing, here's a trio of monostiches in Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) today, appearing alongside some dadakuku alum. Many thanks to Roberta Beach Jacobson for selecting these!

A pleasant surprise to learn that one of my verses from last year was nominated for the Touchstone Award and it made the long list! Many thanks to the awards board for selecting it, and to whoever submitted it! When I wrote this verse I had no idea it would have legs! 😄

Many thanks to editors Daniel Y. Harris and Irene Koronas of the experimental journal Var(2x) for running my suite of what I've been calling "text abstractions." Dive in for some cut-up dada-esque literary mulch!

Many thanks to editors P.H. Fischer and Antoinette Cheung for selecting a pair of monoku for the current issue of Prune Juice Senryu Journal! Congrats and hello to all else who appear! 👋 prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/03/31/i...

Coming soon I will have a new microchapbook! I continue my own dada exploration and pushing literary boundaries as I go!

I got more followers of my journal in three months here than I did in two years at the ex-site, thank you for all of your support!

A new verse in my journal @dadakuku.bsky.social, thanks for your support of it!

Some necessary reading...

Glad to be in the debut issue of Pfudalmda Dadamag! This journal focuses on pwoermds, or single word poems, each month on a specific theme, this issue on "warfair." Check out the rest of the issue and submit for the next one! www.pfudalmda.xyz

G.X. Jupitter-Larsen of The Haters puts together a show with Jessica King, "A 5-Minute Hour," and on the latest episode, Jessica reads selected verses from the dadakuku anthology series.

Many thanks to editor Tony Pupello for selecting a verse of mine for the latest issue of tsuri-dōrō! Hello and congratulations to everyone else who appears! 👋 tsuridoro.org/issue-26-mar...

The House GOP voted on a budget framework that will take money from the social safety net and give it all to billionaires. Do you get it now? This is a class war. They've declared the middle and working class the enemy. They are Russia and we are Ukraine.

A prescient poem by Terry Ehret written in 2011, "How Fascism Will Come:" poetryflash.org/poems/?p=EHR...

Another verse using MapQuest's "Gulf of..." renaming generator: Gulf of deadnames a thousand cuts to agency

I used MapQuest's "Gulf of ..." renaming generator to create a haiku/senryu:

Many thanks to editor Paul Miller for selecting my verse in the latest issue of Modern Haiku, always an honor to appear!

Many thanks to Stanford M. Forrester for including me in the latest issue of Bottle Rockets, an honor to appear! Hello and congrats to everyone else within! 👋

Join the new Dada revolution! Submit nonsense to jam up the works! (Use a VPN, Opera browsers have one built-in, among others)

I'm featured in today's Haiku Poet Word Search. Many thanks to Kelly Sauvage Moyer for including me!

I don't know if it's just me, but all this chaos has diminished my focus to write haiku/etc. But fitting for the times, I will have a collection of absurdist cut-up dada text abstractions coming out in a couple months.

A collection of conceptual poetry that's actually fun to read! 👇👇👇

Many thanks to editor David A. Bishop for including a suite of weird disjointed verses of mine in the new issue of # Ranger Magazine! Here are a couple verses. Direct link to all my verses: www.rangermagazine.net/petro_issue9 Link to the rest of the issue: www.rangermagazine.net/issue9