Patrick Roche

migrating to bsky. Award-winning poet featured on lots of websites and my mom's fridge. He/him. Order my book!

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

My uncle could use some support!
He was diagnosed with end stage renal failure in 2024, has been managing dialysis & treatment, and is on the kidney transplant list, but expenses and bills have been adding up.
Please consider donating and sharing! 💚
https://t.co/WvJ3ibOu6O

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

Check out the full issue and all the incredible writers in it! You can also listen to audio of me reading my poem ☺️ https://t.co/xU9TQdWSSS

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

Muzzle has been a dream publication of mine for years! So excited to be part of this issue!

Another Olympus poem, looking at Ares in the context of American glorification of violence, etc. And all the hypocritical rhetoric claiming “political violence is antithetical to America”

[Muzzle Magazine @MuzzleMagazine]

Also, check out our reviews section for reviews written by Noel Quiñones and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouten!

[voicemail poems @voicemailpoems]

"Hands, a god lifting me to a mountain, casting me
in bronze to be a boy until bled dry. To be a stain
of nectar on a chin. To be a cup overflowing:
a cold, metal well from which to drink."

- Patrick Roche (@PatrickPoetry)

https://t.co/iGbzyfeLpo

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

New poem in Voicemail Poems Winter 2025 issue!

Part of a larger collection I’m working on about Olympian figures — queering them, placing them in contemporary context, etc.

Ganymede is a lad abducted by an eagle (Zeus in disguise or at his command) to be cupbearer to the gods

[voicemail poems @voicemailpoems]

❄️ winter issue's up! ❄️

ft. @FelixFardo, @PatrickPoetry, @lacimosier, @ParkerLogan13, @@nainchris, @dSRandoL, @_unpeachy, & more!

https://t.co/MKUFs7Pk0n

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

OK new plan!
Tomorrow afternoon:
Double the poets, double the fun!

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

I’ll be live on Button Poetry’s Facebook page tomorrow at 8:00pm eastern/7:00pm central, reading a bunch of poems and talking about my upcoming workshop!

(Boooo Meta, but also a girl’s gotta promote)

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

@calamityjaz “Medusa” by Carol Ann Duffy

I also have been teaching “What Was I Made For” alongside persona poems and have had success with that

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

@calamityjaz https://t.co/z3KpGErb4b

[Nour Odeh 🇵🇸🍉 #FreePalestine @nour_odeh]

There are no tents for those who survived the massacre in Rafah. They have no where to go. 1000s others who were displaced from Rafah northward are also still without tents. All have no access to water, sanitation or health services. The conditions of life are simply not there.

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

This, by @thea_lim, for all the writers and poets still silent on Gaza

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

So my point stands and doesn’t need any forcing of numbers. Yet nobody on Genius etc. seems to be theorizing that for the significance of 16?

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

OKAY after researching more, I actually don’t need to do any fudging to make the numbers work. Since Beyoncé wrote 16 Carriages before Renaissance tour AND one of the listed DC tours wasn’t a tour—just an appearance at one Britney show in Honolulu
8 solo and 8 DC = 16 tours/buses

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

16 Carriages are presumably tour buses right? But the number seems specific so I did some research

9 solo tours
9 Destiny’s Child tours BUT 3 were essentially one long tour (all in 2000) so basically
7 DC tour buses

9+7
Or I’m just seeing things where I want to see things

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

I’m sure ppl already theorized that but that was my numerology exercise for today

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

16 Carriages are presumably tour buses right? But the number seems specific so I did some research

9 solo tours
9 Destiny’s Child tours BUT 3 were essentially one long tour (all in 2000) so basically
7 DC tour buses

9+7
Or I’m just seeing things where I want to see things

[Hanif Abdurraqib @NifMuhammad]

Elmo each day the abyss we stare into grows a unique horror. one that was previously unfathomable in nature. our inevitable doom which once accelerated in years, or months, now accelerates in hours, even minutes.

however I did have a good grapefruit earlier, thank you for asking

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

Multiple students from my previous workshop have swiftly had work published that came out of our time together and our prompts, discussions, and analysis!

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

I’m teaching another weekly workshop with @buttonpoetry next month!

6 weeks of diving into the role character in our poems, writing new material, and engaging with/analyzing poems, pop music, literature, The Muppets, drag, and more!

https://t.co/6muyJpxbJe

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

And it’s seemingly not that the machine is full. That used to happen.

Now it seems like it’s not sending to an answering machine at all.

[Patrick Roche @PatrickPoetry]

Lmaooo tried calling my senator @SenSchumer again about Gaza but his D.C. office has literally taken down their answering machine?? ����🫠

It just plays a loop of like “sorry but we ask that you call back during regular hours or go to the website”

This feels…not allowed