Michael VanCalbergh
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Michael VanCalbergh
@mvcpoet.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Incredible Hulk Enthusiast, Father, Comic Lover, Obsessive Reader, SRPR Reader, Trying to get 1st manuscript picked up.

Monthly writing on books/reading/writing at: https://widely-read.ghost.io/
I have so many issues with pants and belts that Im thinking of starting a project where me telling belts and pants to f off is at thrme center.

Anyway. Fuck you belt.
April 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Here supporting my kid at Maine West in Des Plaines! So excited.
November 23, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Sneaking in some writing b4 my kid leaves therapy but I dunno what to write. Maybe gonna write about this art?
November 18, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Got in just under the first mil.
September 17, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Last two art doodles I did last night. Couldnt post because the kid would stop drawing to go to bed. Each kid is unique ya know?
June 21, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I only make art to amuse my child. This amused them.

Let me know if you want it. Ill sign it if you pay postage.

Note: there is a hidden message inside the paper towel roll not pictured. A lil surprise for you.

Art time with the kid rules.
June 21, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Finished Out of Your Mind by Alan Watts yesterday.

While most of it was absolutely wonderful and interesting and felt like an intro to Buddhism/ideas around it, I often felt myself just listening and becoming one with the road as I listened.

I think that was the point? At least I hope it was.
March 30, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Just finished reading @anandalima.bsky.social Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil and, honestly, if you are a writer or do anything that requires a serious consideration of craft (however you define it), these stories are for you.

Stunning opening story and "Idle Hands" is so so brilliant.
March 21, 2024 at 2:15 AM
On my drive to work I finished Essays of E.B. White today on my Hoopla!

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed his writing about nature and his humor. Genuinely something I wished went on a little longer.

My access to Hoopla is through my local library Normal Public! Woot libraries!!
March 6, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Just finished reading Jeannine Hall Gailey's "Becoming the Villianness" which was wonderful. So many poems about myth and comics and the poem "Remembering Philomel" made me stop breathing.

I dont remember where I got it but it is signed to someone else. My fav kind of book to own. #poetry
March 4, 2024 at 9:45 PM