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A.S. Coomer
@ascoomer.bsky.social
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Writer. Musician.
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big thanks to Caitlin & the good folks at Marrow Magazine for nominating my poem “river montage (Nolin River Aubade #33)” for a Best of the Net award. congrats to my fellow nominees.

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I’ll be slinging tunes to raise some funds for the good folks at the Leitchfield Animal Shelter next month. See y’all at Mudd Fest 2025.
slinging songs on the radio & interwebs this evening. check out the Community Music Alliance Facebook page at 7pm EST for a live vidyuh-stream. my set will be recorded live & rebroadcast on 106.5 WFMP FM & forwardradio.org this coming Saturday at 8pm EST, Sunday at 6pm EST, & Monday at 10am EST.
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it’s a write-two-sonnets kind of birthday morning.
Nashville’s Bobby Row & Lauren Wanamaker are passing through Elizabethtown, KY to play an acoustic show at Flywheel Brewing on 10/17/25 at 7pm EST. I’ll be lending support. Free show! Bring yer friends!
From that pale mist
Ghost swore to priest:
‘There sits no higher court
Than man’s red heart.’
—Sylvia Plath, “Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest” #Reading #Poetry
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Sponsored > Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
Submit now for Spring 2026 publication in The Heartland Review. Top prize: $400 gift card. Fee: $10 for 1-3 unpublished poems. No limit on style or length. Deadline: Oct 1.
https://elizabethtown.kctcs.edu/community/theheartlandreviewpress/poetry-prize.aspx
Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
—Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” #Reading #Poetry
surprise! here’s another “bootleg” of a live performance. this one is from my 2017 concert at the art & performance center of west toledo.

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Live at The Art & Performance Center of West Toledo, by A.S. Coomer
16 track album
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The president smiles to himself; he loves war
And another one is coming soon.
Each day we can feel the merriment mount
In government offices and TV studios
As our bombs fall on distant countries.
—Charles Simic, “Dance of the Macabre Mice” #Reading #Poetry
my new record—live at the ottawa tavern—is out for your streaming pleasure—do that at all the usual places. if yer feeling generous consider purchasing the tracks from my bandcamp page.

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live at the ottawa tavern, by A.S. Coomer
10 track album
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Of Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and
rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own
rights that others possess the same.
—Walt Whitman, “Thought”
Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
As I stand aloof and look there is to me something
profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
—Walt Whitman, “Thought” #reading #poetry
spent the morning reading poems to the smallest ticks i’ve ever seen. this poem is called “hamburger.” it was pub’d in Home Planet News a couple weeks ago.

#ASCoomer #LivePoetry #PoetryReading #Poetry #Poem #JamesBrown #KentuckyPoet

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hamburger — Live Poetry from Serendipity Woods
YouTube video by A.S. Coomer
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Chris Dean & Wendy Cartwright were the featured poets at the monthly reading I host at Flywheel Brewing in Etown, KY.

#Poetry #LiveReading #Poems

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Chris Dean & Wendy Cartwright Live at Flywheel Brewing
YouTube video by A.S. Coomer
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