ascoomer

Writer. Musician. Books include Songs for Leaving, Memorabilia, The Fetishists, Birth of a Monster, Shining the Light, Misdeeds, & several others. Runs LLGFR.

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y'all need a new book?

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slinging poems in bloomington, indiana next week!

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

#Reading #Poetry

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Merriam-Webster's definition of "jingoism" https://t.co/PJ412XFAPt

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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!

Tomorrow is the day!

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Big thanks to Dan Denton for the BIRTH OF A MONSTER shoutout in his A Thin Slice of Anxiety piece “Books to Bury Me With”. Check out Dan’s list.

https://t.co/rikIWQyJHl

Hit me up if yer looking for a signed copy.

Beware the Derby City Butcher!

#ASCoomer #DanDenton #Books

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Michael Duckwall hosts a poetry reading and acoustic open mic at Java Station 56 in Scottsburg, Indiana. He kindly asked me to perform. I did a set of river and flood related poems, most of which are new & unpublished. 

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#LivePoetry #ASCoomer #Poetry

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slinging poems in scottsburg, indiana this afternoon. thanks in advance to Michael Duckwall for hosting.

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we all gots stuff we gotta carry: books, phones, candy, court summonses, etc., so why not do it with a sick A.S. Coomer tote bag?! There are several size and color options.

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The Grant Morrison runs of Batman are incredible.

#Reading #Batman #GrantMorrison @grantmorrison @Batman

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Prayers are not parachutes.
—Mick Kennedy, “Kerouac Wakes up Hungover by the Side of the Road”
#Reading #Poetry
@BooksKelsay

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Do you see
how I persist in telling you about the flowers when I mean to describe the rain?
—Diane Seuss, from FRANK: SONNETS
#Reading #Poetry

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I’m doing a half-hour set of my songs for the Heartland Songwriters Association of Kentucky on 1/3/25 at Waters Edge Winery & Bistro. Here’s a pic Mike McGuire took of me slinging some tunes there this past Friday. I did the edits.

#ASCoomer #Live #Folk #Americana #AltCountry

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Nowhere one
goes will
one ever
be away
enough from
wherever
one was.
—Robert Creeley, “Echo”
#Reading #Poetry

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My poem—i sit / & write—was anthologized in International Beat Poet Laureate Fin Hall’s #BeatPoetry #anthology AIN’T NO DEAD BEATS AROUND HERE, which is out now. To celebrate, I read the poem to Freeman Lake Creek.

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SING WHILE YOU CAN is a poetry/music hybrid. All nine poems/songs are out there for yer streaming pleasure. Here’s the @Spotify leenk:

https://t.co/vx1YQCFzOO

#ASCoomer #SingWhileYouCan #Poetry

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back in stock
ascoomer dawt kom

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Live from the banks of the meandering Nolin River…

This poem, “river montage (Nolin River Aubade #33)”, was published in Marrow Magazine. 

https://t.co/PyfZ5HW6ei

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As of 11:11am EST my poetry/music EP—SING WHILE YOU CAN—is out for streaming/downloading/etc.

https://t.co/VnXnKHC9Fx

#ASCoomer #SingWhileYouCan #Poetry #Music #KentuckyPoet

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Slinging songs in my library. Here are two: Cloudy + Blood on the Banks of the Dirty Ohio. Thanks for looking/listening.

https://t.co/Bqp7qCL8qW