Justin Hamm
@mdwstscribbler.bsky.social
Rambling poet, sometime photographer. Midwest is my forever home. Editor @ museum of americana. Creator of Poet Baseball Cards. Author, most recently, of O DEATH (Spartan Press 2024).
Friends—just a note to say I’ve got signed copies of O Death again if you’d like to snag one. I’m kind of proud of this little book and the mix of prose poems and erasures that comprise it. Let me know and I can put one in your hands.
February 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Friends—just a note to say I’ve got signed copies of O Death again if you’d like to snag one. I’m kind of proud of this little book and the mix of prose poems and erasures that comprise it. Let me know and I can put one in your hands.
Poet Baseball Cards
Series F Card #1
Arden Levine is a phenomenal poet and it is a huge thrill to kick off Series F with her card!
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for artists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Series F Card #1
Arden Levine is a phenomenal poet and it is a huge thrill to kick off Series F with her card!
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for artists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
December 31, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Poet Baseball Cards
Series F Card #1
Arden Levine is a phenomenal poet and it is a huge thrill to kick off Series F with her card!
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for artists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Series F Card #1
Arden Levine is a phenomenal poet and it is a huge thrill to kick off Series F with her card!
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for artists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Always thought this was one of my better winter photos—from some Missouri winter of the past.
December 7, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Always thought this was one of my better winter photos—from some Missouri winter of the past.
Thought about this one again when I had the chance to read it for students at Troy Buchanan HS last week and show them a little of their teachers’ perspective.
December 3, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Thought about this one again when I had the chance to read it for students at Troy Buchanan HS last week and show them a little of their teachers’ perspective.
The last four or five months have been my quietest in terms of events in several years. Just needed a break and I’ve also been worried about traveling with my Dad’s health. But I’m ready to take O Death on the road.
If you’re interested in helping me fill out this tour poster, let me know.
If you’re interested in helping me fill out this tour poster, let me know.
December 1, 2024 at 7:31 PM
The last four or five months have been my quietest in terms of events in several years. Just needed a break and I’ve also been worried about traveling with my Dad’s health. But I’m ready to take O Death on the road.
If you’re interested in helping me fill out this tour poster, let me know.
If you’re interested in helping me fill out this tour poster, let me know.
Greetings from the snowy Midwest.
November 30, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Greetings from the snowy Midwest.
It is with great pleasure that I announce I am not doing squat today, except maybe laying around and ordering some new flannels I don’t need.
Please shoot me links to some poems, lit magazine issues, art, and new music you’re digging these days. Bonus if any of it is by your friends.
Please shoot me links to some poems, lit magazine issues, art, and new music you’re digging these days. Bonus if any of it is by your friends.
November 29, 2024 at 7:30 PM
It is with great pleasure that I announce I am not doing squat today, except maybe laying around and ordering some new flannels I don’t need.
Please shoot me links to some poems, lit magazine issues, art, and new music you’re digging these days. Bonus if any of it is by your friends.
Please shoot me links to some poems, lit magazine issues, art, and new music you’re digging these days. Bonus if any of it is by your friends.
Happy Thanksgiving from the Hamm family to yours.
November 28, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from the Hamm family to yours.
A Thanksgiving poem . . .
November 28, 2024 at 2:55 PM
A Thanksgiving poem . . .
Looking forward to watching the Bears lose to the Lions tomorrow just to give my self that extra fuel for a long afternoon of unhinged emotional eating. Every Caleb Williams sack will mean another gravy-slathered roll at supper.
November 28, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Looking forward to watching the Bears lose to the Lions tomorrow just to give my self that extra fuel for a long afternoon of unhinged emotional eating. Every Caleb Williams sack will mean another gravy-slathered roll at supper.
Poet Baseball Cards Series E is now available Let’s do a Thanksgiving Poet Baseball Cards giveaway. Share this post and I’ll enter you for a chance to win a set of Series E Cards. I’ll choose four winners early next week.
November 25, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Poet Baseball Cards Series E is now available Let’s do a Thanksgiving Poet Baseball Cards giveaway. Share this post and I’ll enter you for a chance to win a set of Series E Cards. I’ll choose four winners early next week.
Choose Your Own Adventure
November 24, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Choose Your Own Adventure
Tangled Up in Blue
November 24, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Tangled Up in Blue
Let’s celebrate! Series E is now officially in the world. This marks 100 poets honored by Poet Baseball Cards
Poet Baseball Cards
Series E Card 18/20
Poet Baseball Cards
Series E Card 18/20
November 20, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Let’s celebrate! Series E is now officially in the world. This marks 100 poets honored by Poet Baseball Cards
Poet Baseball Cards
Series E Card 18/20
Poet Baseball Cards
Series E Card 18/20
Poet Baseball Cards
Series E Card #16/20
Meet a fantastic poet, editor, and person — Dustin Brookshire!
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for artists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Series E Card #16/20
Meet a fantastic poet, editor, and person — Dustin Brookshire!
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for artists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
November 20, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Poet Baseball Cards
Series E Card #16/20
Meet a fantastic poet, editor, and person — Dustin Brookshire!
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for artists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Series E Card #16/20
Meet a fantastic poet, editor, and person — Dustin Brookshire!
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for artists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Fell down the stairs yesterday. Tonight I’m living on a Tylenol and ibuprofen mix, laid out in the recliner with two heating pads while signing books. Oof. On the plus side I’ve got eight copies of O Death left. $17.50 shipped or $23.50 with a copy of Drinking Guinness with the Dead.
November 18, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Fell down the stairs yesterday. Tonight I’m living on a Tylenol and ibuprofen mix, laid out in the recliner with two heating pads while signing books. Oof. On the plus side I’ve got eight copies of O Death left. $17.50 shipped or $23.50 with a copy of Drinking Guinness with the Dead.
“Composed to Jelly Roll Morton’s Hyena Stomp” from O Death (Spartan Press, 2024). It’s intended to accompany the song, so link in comments.
November 14, 2024 at 1:14 AM
“Composed to Jelly Roll Morton’s Hyena Stomp” from O Death (Spartan Press, 2024). It’s intended to accompany the song, so link in comments.
Poet Baseball Cards
Series E Card #19/20
What a thrill it is to commemorate the work of one of my favorite writers ever in any genre, Shane MacGowan. Thank you to Victoria Mary Clarke Angels for permission to include Shane in this project and to Mark Berriman for assisting with the contact.
Series E Card #19/20
What a thrill it is to commemorate the work of one of my favorite writers ever in any genre, Shane MacGowan. Thank you to Victoria Mary Clarke Angels for permission to include Shane in this project and to Mark Berriman for assisting with the contact.
November 13, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Poet Baseball Cards
Series E Card #19/20
What a thrill it is to commemorate the work of one of my favorite writers ever in any genre, Shane MacGowan. Thank you to Victoria Mary Clarke Angels for permission to include Shane in this project and to Mark Berriman for assisting with the contact.
Series E Card #19/20
What a thrill it is to commemorate the work of one of my favorite writers ever in any genre, Shane MacGowan. Thank you to Victoria Mary Clarke Angels for permission to include Shane in this project and to Mark Berriman for assisting with the contact.
Gave up on Bluesky the first time around, but looks like the poets are showing up? Hi, everybody. I’m around.
November 13, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Gave up on Bluesky the first time around, but looks like the poets are showing up? Hi, everybody. I’m around.
Here is the updated list of available Poet Baseball Cards. If you’d like to order some sets to have on hand for AWP to collect autographs, let me know ASAP, and I can fill orders quickly.
January 11, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Here is the updated list of available Poet Baseball Cards. If you’d like to order some sets to have on hand for AWP to collect autographs, let me know ASAP, and I can fill orders quickly.
As Poet Baseball Cards grows and develop, it’s nice to have these little resting points to celebrate. With publication of Brandon Amico’s card, Series D is officially complete. This means we have now featured eighty poets. Really grateful that the project continues to thrive.
January 10, 2024 at 9:49 PM
As Poet Baseball Cards grows and develop, it’s nice to have these little resting points to celebrate. With publication of Brandon Amico’s card, Series D is officially complete. This means we have now featured eighty poets. Really grateful that the project continues to thrive.
Poet Baseball Cards
Series D Card #14/20
Hall of Famer Phillis Wheatley
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Series D Card #14/20
Hall of Famer Phillis Wheatley
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
January 10, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Poet Baseball Cards
Series D Card #14/20
Hall of Famer Phillis Wheatley
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Series D Card #14/20
Hall of Famer Phillis Wheatley
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Poet Baseball Cards
Series D Card #19/20
Tom C Hunley
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Series D Card #19/20
Tom C Hunley
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
January 6, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Poet Baseball Cards
Series D Card #19/20
Tom C Hunley
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Series D Card #19/20
Tom C Hunley
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Poet Baseball Cards
Series D Card #18/20
Crystal Wilkinson
crystalwilkinson.net
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Series D Card #18/20
Crystal Wilkinson
crystalwilkinson.net
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
January 6, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Poet Baseball Cards
Series D Card #18/20
Crystal Wilkinson
crystalwilkinson.net
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Series D Card #18/20
Crystal Wilkinson
crystalwilkinson.net
Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.
osageac.org
Poet Baseball Cards
Series D Card #17/20
So glad to Paul Guest on the roster!
Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness.
Series D Card #17/20
So glad to Paul Guest on the roster!
Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness.
January 4, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Poet Baseball Cards
Series D Card #17/20
So glad to Paul Guest on the roster!
Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness.
Series D Card #17/20
So glad to Paul Guest on the roster!
Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness.