@stanchion.bsky.social 19 is now shipping & it's a pretty amazing issue. Here's the start of my poem that's included--to read the rest, follow the link in the comments. Thank you to the editors & other poets, writers, & artists.

:) Pre-order time!

Friends! My second poetry collection is now on pre-sale & is due out end of September from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social! They are a wild ride, the poems, & include a few prize-nominated pieces (including the one attached). Thank you to Jessica Jones & Ankit Raj Ojha for the generous blurbs.

In these final days of National Poetry Month, I'm grateful to Diane Kendig & Cuyahoga County Public Library for featuring my poem "Nine Weeks In" on today's READ + WRITE POETRY BLOG. You can read it here. cuyahogalibrary.org/blog/poetry/...

It's my wife's birthday & I got her some poetry--thanks to the wonderful Editor Jaime Alejandro @artscalling.com No. 10 is live & I'm grateful to have 3 pieces back at the coalition.

Super excited to have a new poem (Here Were the First Flower People—Will You Be a Flower Person?) out in @inkinthirds.bsky.social Spring Equinox issue. Check out the entire, fabulous issue. Thank you, Editors! inkinthirds.org/vol-6-i-1/

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 inkinthirds.org/book-review-... 𝘼𝙣𝙙 & 𝘼𝙣𝙙 by Bob King seems to pull inspiration from every facet of his life. The references range from classics like Chekov to more contemporary media, like Pokemon. @KingRobertJ New book each month!

Many thanks to C.W. Bryan & Grace Black for this generous book review & conversation up @inkinthirds.bsky.social. Please check it out. (And you can get the book on all bookstore platforms.) inkinthirds.org/book-review-...

Poets, if you’re not already working with Grace & her awesome editors @inkinthirds.bsky.social, you need to be: ink, poetry, wildflower seeds, & brilliant human touches in an era that needs all of these things. ✌🏼🌻

Thank you to the fabulous editors for including two of my pieces in this brilliant inaugural issue. A wonderful collection, Charlie & Bella! Very grateful.

Them: Your manuscript should be cohesive and make sense as a complete book My Manuscript:

Grateful to have a new poem up at a new literary magazine: Waffle Fried Issue #1: Longing. Available on Amazon. Thank you to the fabulous editors!

Very appreciative of In Ink Sweat & Tears for hosting my poem, "You Know What 9am Feels Like, Right? Like, If Your Watch & All Clocks—Suddenly Worldwide—Disappeared, You’d Still Know What 9am Feels Like, Right?" inksweatandtears.co.uk/bob-king-2/?...

Very grateful to have “Sometimes I Feel Like an Explorer During the Age of Discovery” & “Stephen Jay Gould’s Peripatetic Circus” (reprint) in Copihue Poetry, Volume 4. Enjoy! www.copihuepoetry.com/sometimes-i-...

Grateful to be included in Issue 36 of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social ! Thank you to the entire AHC team, especially James Diaz. Click through to read, "What It Takes to Solve a Crossword Puzzle," as well as work from outstanding artists around the globe. heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-...

When the close of another semester coincides with a Billy Collins reading in Cleveland.

Gratitude = first poetry collection published August 30, 2024. Cover art by CLE area artist Megan Frankenfield. That's the Cleveland skyline--as if viewed through old factory windows--in the central lime green panels. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/and-and-bo...

If you’ve not read Patrick Radden Keefe, start with the Sackler/opioid book, then the Snakehead/immigration book, then Say Nothing. And THEN watch the Hulu Series. More & more, short series prove a better medium to adapt books than do movies. (Say Nothing: 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing)