Chad Parenteau
@chadpoetforhire.bsky.social
Poet, writer, comics reviewer. Associate Editor of Oddball Magazine. Host of Stone Soup Poetry weekly. Main page updated regularly.
http://www.chadparenteaupoetforhire.com
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Pinned
Proof By Chad Parenteau
God proves own existence hating you so fucking much too often for randomness, earth moving enough that you must be favorite dumping spot o...
ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com
My poem "What I Learned" has just been published in The Rye Whiskey Review. Thanks to John Patrick Robbins for this nice Friday surprise. #poetry #poetrycommunity
Sage(wood) wisdom. #poetry @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Wise Words with Bruce Wise - oddball magazine
A litany of voices from the mind of Bruce Wise
oddballmagazine.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Sage(wood) wisdom. #poetry @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Reposted by Chad Parenteau
A new verse from returning contributor Curt Linderman:
hope is
a bag of wet cement
with feathers
— Curt Linderman
𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯 & 𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯
hope is
a bag of wet cement
with feathers
— Curt Linderman
𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯 & 𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯
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hope isa bag of wet cementwith feathers — Curt Linderman after Emily Dickinson & Les Nessman
dadakuku.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A new verse from returning contributor Curt Linderman:
hope is
a bag of wet cement
with feathers
— Curt Linderman
𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯 & 𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯
hope is
a bag of wet cement
with feathers
— Curt Linderman
𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯 & 𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯
Ever-changing. The post-Thanksgiving Bamboozled No More! is up now. #poetry @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Bamboozled No More! With Truths, Memories and Whatevers Collide with Full Moons and Shooting Stars - oddball magazine
Politics, social commentary from Janet Cormier
oddballmagazine.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Ever-changing. The post-Thanksgiving Bamboozled No More! is up now. #poetry @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
A time when empathy wasn't (always) seen as weakness. This week's poem column James Van Looy is perfect for Thanksgiving. #poetry @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
It's All One Thing #614: Homeless Children Art Project 1999 - oddball magazine
Missives, musings and music from a performing mime at large
oddballmagazine.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A time when empathy wasn't (always) seen as weakness. This week's poem column James Van Looy is perfect for Thanksgiving. #poetry @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
From this week's online gathering. Hope you enjoyed this Thanksgiving Day respite. #poetry #poetrycommunity
Stone Soup Poetry All Open Mic, 11-26-25
YouTube video by Chad Parenteau
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November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
From this week's online gathering. Hope you enjoyed this Thanksgiving Day respite. #poetry #poetrycommunity
Thanks to everyone out who came out on Thanksgiving Eve. Have you self a good day however you choose or have to spend it. Be back next week for g emil reutter's feature. #poetry #poetrycommunity
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thanks to everyone out who came out on Thanksgiving Eve. Have you self a good day however you choose or have to spend it. Be back next week for g emil reutter's feature. #poetry #poetrycommunity
Happy Thanksgiving. Let's repost my one Thanksgiving poem "Hand Turkey Jesus!"
A Jesus Poem for Thanksgiving
(because I'm feeling blasphemous this Thanksgiving day). "Hand Turkey Jesus," permanent marker and highlighter Hand Turkey Jesus T...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy Thanksgiving. Let's repost my one Thanksgiving poem "Hand Turkey Jesus!"
This day has been a total edgelord to me.
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This day has been a total edgelord to me.
The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for November 26 is up now at Substack. #poetry #poetrycommunity #artwork #photography #comics
Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes, 11-26-25
Oh, goodie, more uncertainty
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November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for November 26 is up now at Substack. #poetry #poetrycommunity #artwork #photography #comics
The end? Returning poet John Greiner unites with returning artist Mark Bickley to close out Thanksgiving Eve. #poetry #artwork @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Poem by John Greiner - oddball magazine
Artwork by Mark Blickley
oddballmagazine.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The end? Returning poet John Greiner unites with returning artist Mark Bickley to close out Thanksgiving Eve. #poetry #artwork @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
My poem "What I Learned" has just been published in The Rye Whiskey Review. Thanks to John Patrick Robbins for this nice Friday surprise. #poetry #poetrycommunity
Proof By Chad Parenteau
God proves own existence hating you so fucking much too often for randomness, earth moving enough that you must be favorite dumping spot o...
ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My poem "What I Learned" has just been published in The Rye Whiskey Review. Thanks to John Patrick Robbins for this nice Friday surprise. #poetry #poetrycommunity
On fire. Poet Joel Best and photographer Jennifer Matthews kick off our pre-Thanksgiving Wednesday. #poetry #photography @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Poem by Joel Best - oddball magazine
Photography by Jennifer Matthews
oddballmagazine.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
On fire. Poet Joel Best and photographer Jennifer Matthews kick off our pre-Thanksgiving Wednesday. #poetry #photography @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
"Look at those wide eyes! Don't they exude feelings of job security?" #poetry #haiku #AmericanHaiku #Trump
American Haiku: Trump Assures
When I started my Sarcastic Haiku series, I wrote my first American Haiku. An American Haiku doesn't care about tradition, formality or...
chadparenteaupoetforhire.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Look at those wide eyes! Don't they exude feelings of job security?" #poetry #haiku #AmericanHaiku #Trump
Waking. Here's Jason Wright's latest poem column. #poetry @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Jagged Thought #587: Glow (like gravity) - oddball magazine
Check out the latest Jagged Thought from our editor Jason Wright
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November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Waking. Here's Jason Wright's latest poem column. #poetry @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Like a DOGE, Part Twenty: Existential Questions. Read it now on my Patreon. #poetry #poetrycommunity
Like a DOGE, Part Twenty: Existential Questions | Chad Parenteau
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November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Like a DOGE, Part Twenty: Existential Questions. Read it now on my Patreon. #poetry #poetrycommunity
Here is an essay by Kimberly W. Heiman to help us mark the fifth anniversary of our COVID holidays. #essay #nonfiction #covid @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Essay by Kimberly W. Heiman - oddball magazine
An essay to help Oddball mark the fifth anniversary of our COVID holidays
oddballmagazine.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Here is an essay by Kimberly W. Heiman to help us mark the fifth anniversary of our COVID holidays. #essay #nonfiction #covid @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Oddball Stories with Greg Martin - oddball magazine
A more-than normal slice of life
oddballmagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Reposted by Chad Parenteau
A new verse from returning contributor @nberlat.bsky.social :
𝗔𝗻𝘅𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻
I am not, I don’t think
— Noah Berlatsky
𝗔𝗻𝘅𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻
I am not, I don’t think
— Noah Berlatsky
Anxious Cartesian
I am not, I don’t think — Noah Berlatsky
dadakuku.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A new verse from returning contributor @nberlat.bsky.social :
𝗔𝗻𝘅𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻
I am not, I don’t think
— Noah Berlatsky
𝗔𝗻𝘅𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻
I am not, I don’t think
— Noah Berlatsky
Just in time for the end of the month, here's Steven David Justin Sills with his newest ethics treatise chapter along with new brand illustrations from Richard Spisak. @poetinasia.bsky.social #essay #ethics @rwspoet.bsky.social #artwork @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Essay by Steven David Justin Sills - oddball magazine
Artwork by Richard Spisak
oddballmagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Just in time for the end of the month, here's Steven David Justin Sills with his newest ethics treatise chapter along with new brand illustrations from Richard Spisak. @poetinasia.bsky.social #essay #ethics @rwspoet.bsky.social #artwork @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Fail tales. Anne Skove's comic will make you feel better about any mishaps this holiday week. #comics @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
She Who Laughs Lasts: Things I Did by Accident - oddball magazine
Let's see what this week's Annefesto is, shall we?
oddballmagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Fail tales. Anne Skove's comic will make you feel better about any mishaps this holiday week. #comics @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
It's Later Now, Part Twelve: No Mirror Games. Read it on my Patreon. #poetry #poetrycommunity
It's Later Now, Part Twelve: No Mirror Games | Chad Parenteau
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November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It's Later Now, Part Twelve: No Mirror Games. Read it on my Patreon. #poetry #poetrycommunity
Scene: Poet John Roche and photographer Jack Marty pair up again to kick off Monday. #poetry #photography @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
Poem by John Roche - oddball magazine
Photography by Jack Marty
oddballmagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Scene: Poet John Roche and photographer Jack Marty pair up again to kick off Monday. #poetry #photography @oddballmagazine.bsky.social
g emil reutter makes his return to Stone Soup Poetry on December 3. #poetry #poetrycommunity
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
g emil reutter makes his return to Stone Soup Poetry on December 3. #poetry #poetrycommunity
Reposted by Chad Parenteau
X user: "Hey Grok, Does Elon Musk eat turds?"
(10 gallons of water turn to steam, 400 pounds of CO2 is released, 8 people in a data center in Asia pass out from exhaustion)
Grok: "Hell yeah he does! He's the best at it because he loves turds in his mouth!"
(10 gallons of water turn to steam, 400 pounds of CO2 is released, 8 people in a data center in Asia pass out from exhaustion)
Grok: "Hell yeah he does! He's the best at it because he loves turds in his mouth!"
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
X user: "Hey Grok, Does Elon Musk eat turds?"
(10 gallons of water turn to steam, 400 pounds of CO2 is released, 8 people in a data center in Asia pass out from exhaustion)
Grok: "Hell yeah he does! He's the best at it because he loves turds in his mouth!"
(10 gallons of water turn to steam, 400 pounds of CO2 is released, 8 people in a data center in Asia pass out from exhaustion)
Grok: "Hell yeah he does! He's the best at it because he loves turds in his mouth!"
I am so sorry to hear about the passing of Charles Coe. A multiple-time Stone Soup feature, he was a towering presence whether it was featuring for me, the Boston Celebrates National Poetry Month Marathon, the Cambridge Poetry MashUp and so many other events and venues. #poetry #poetrycommunity
November 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I am so sorry to hear about the passing of Charles Coe. A multiple-time Stone Soup feature, he was a towering presence whether it was featuring for me, the Boston Celebrates National Poetry Month Marathon, the Cambridge Poetry MashUp and so many other events and venues. #poetry #poetrycommunity