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