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sorry i oscillated between vanity and self-loathing it will happen again

David Smith / Hudson River Landscape, 1951 as a young art student I had a wonderful teacher who introduced me to the sculptures and drawings of Smith

Once a week, I co-teach an AP lit class to teach them about poetry. A girl was being very short and kind of rude today, so I politely asked if everything is okay, and she legitimately hates poetry so much that it makes her angry. I make her angry because of the poems, and anyway I feel sad now.

Man answering his phone outside Reading Station: It’s too late, I’m on the train.

I often think about getting a PHD just so I can be around people who like to read the kind of books I like.

In 1996, David Foster Wallace tried to explain how technology could destroy us. No one paid attention. But he was right, writes Ted Gioia for The Free Press.

No Kings by Timothy Tarkelly He torched the trees And hoped to singe the sky Anything to starve the soil Make it groan his name --- Read the rest of the poem at riseupreview.org/timothy-tarkelly

In this month's Quakers Today podcast, join Timothy Tarkelly as he connects nature's stillness to worship & explores the morality of hunting. PLUS: Inspiring stories from Erin Wilson and Mark Russ on LGBTQ identity and Quaker-Christian intersections.

The world may be quite turbulent at the moment, but we can all take at least some solace in the fact that bookstores exist.

Saw an article about someone "redefining what it means to be a pop-star." And just all the comments from people being like "who?" "never heard of her?" and it's just folks, we're in our 40s, just accept we won't know a lot of these people and that doesn't mean "music is dead." We're just old...

A couple years ago, Stripes Lit Mag published my chapbook Ode to the Class of 2024, a short collection of poems about being a teacher. You can check it out here: stripesliterarymagazine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/...

SUBS OPEN NOW THRU NOV. 22! We want stories that detail life at the bottom or at the margins of human society. Make it sad. Make it dark. Make it the tiniest bit hopeful. More info here: bit.ly/4onmEBw

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Check out "Leavenworth" and follow me on TikTok! #poem #poetry www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMqFtBMG/

Protect your joy.

My new story just dropped! Detective Tom Flannery lost his job for a crime he never committed. Now, he is being forced to solve a murder by the same people who framed him. theyardcrimeblog.com/2025/10/28/a... #noir #crimefiction #detective

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I'm excited to announce my upcoming book from @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Kezia is a short collection of narrative poems about lovesick vagabonds, vengeful viking women, and medieval warriors in desperate need of humility. The book drops in August!

The AP Lit kids at my school do a March Madness poetry bracket every year with 16 poems. This year "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath took first, and "The Ultrasound Shows Me an Empty Sack" by @stemkay.bsky.social took a strong second.

Super pumped to have my work featured as the Poem of the Week at BeatLife!!! beatlife.org/poem-of-the-...

Check out my poem "Delaware" in the newest issue of Streetcake Magazine!

Have a flash piece up at Guilty Crime Story Mag! www.guiltycrimemag.com/flash/we-wer...

The Painted Veil The Emperor's Club The Devil Wears Prada Heartland Sum of All Fears These are all movies/series where the cinematic production is actually better than the book. Can you think of others?

I have a new poem up over at As it Ought to Be Magazine! The January edition is full of some wonderful writers. Go check it out! asitoughttobemagazine.com/timothy-tark... #poem #poetsofbluesky

Small books, too!

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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

It's here! One Night in Prague by Timothy Tarkelly 50 pages of high-paced, high-stakes romantic suspense in an exciting city! 💥❤️🏰 The link is below!!!!!! #romance #romanticthriller #newbook #kindle

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Very excited for this story to drop! If you like romance or international thrillers, this is the book for you! #romance #kindle #romanticthriller #newbook

My latest Romance will be available very soon on the Kindle store! One Night in Prague tells the passionate story of a brave journalist and a rogue bodyguard as they fight to expose a dangerous terrorist and for a chance at true love. #romanticthriller #romance #newbook

I have a romance/suspense story that's too short for most publishers (13,500 words), so I'm considering self-publishing it through KDP. Any thoughts? Anyone with experience?

I forget to tell people that I've authored multiple romance novellas. This was my first: www.amazon.com/Love-Death-I...

I have a new poem in the latest issue of Cathexis Northwest. You can read the magazine digitally here: www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/jan-feb-2025

A little essay I wrote about writing in Chicago is now up with the newest issue of Doublespeak Mag. Go check it out! dsmag.in/2024/12/29/t...

i don’t like writing so much as i like having written, revised and published

Cheap rum and sonnets...maybe that's the title of my next book?

I've published poetry, literary fiction, romance, crime fiction, and horror. I'm also a musician. It's been suggested to me that my eclectic nature is actually holding me back from being truly successful in any one area. Thoughts?

Poets out here writing love poems like

Such a classic, sweet, and underrated poem. My Love is Like a Red Red Rose by Robert Burns

"Have I not reason to lament / What man has made of man?" From Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth

One of my most beloved and re-read books I own.

Any publications focusing in formal verse these days?

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I am excited to announce that a scholarly essay I wrote about Jane Austen will be published in a monograph this year, and I can't begin to explain how happy I am. My essay is entitled, "Finding Love in the Navy List: Jane Austen and the Military Class." More details to come!