A.S. Coomer

slinging #Poems in #TheGlassCity this weekend alongside #Poets from all over the country. come say hi #ToledoOhio

#ASCoomer #UndergroundLitFest #SmallPress #IndieArt #CultureClashRecords #AtticOnAdams

back in sept i played 13 songs live-on-air on michael logsdon’s radio show terra firma. you can stream them songs at all the usual places. if yer feeling generous you can dl the hi-res tracks from as coomer dot bandcamp dot com

#ASCoomer #TerraFirma #Live #SingerSongwriter #KentuckyMusic

Live on Terra Firma 9/4/25

live on terra firma is out on all the streaming services

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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.

Definition of IDIOCRACY a society governed or populated by idiots; government by idiots… See the full definition

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Definition of IDOLATRY the worship of a physical object as a god; immoderate attachment or devotion to something… See the full definition

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Definition of AUTHORITARIAN of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority; of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people… See the full d...

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Definition of DISTRACTION something that distracts : an object that directs one's attention away from something else; especially : amusement; the act of distracting or the state of being distracted; especially : mental confusi...

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Plath > Hughes

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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.

A.S. Coomer Writer & Musician

today marks the tenth anniversary of my website: www.ascoomer.com

it’s a write-two-sonnets kind of birthday morning.

Definition of FASCISM a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government ...

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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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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.
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Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
—Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” #Reading #Poetry

Live at The Art & Performance Center of West Toledo, by A.S. Coomer 16 track album

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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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

live at the ottawa tavern, by A.S. Coomer 10 track album

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.

ascoomer.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Mervyn Seivwright - Stick, Hook, and a Pile of Yarn | Broken Sleep Books Stick, Hook, and a Pile of Yarn is a collection of poems centred around a coming-of-age nomad-story that was conceived and weaved into place far from the speaker’s family and the world he has previously known.  Mervyn Seivwright shares his seasons of growth into adolescence navigating his new country and blended family from England to America in the 1980s, deftly presenting a tapestry of poems and scenes into a single narrative, and a rich journey.

Hello #Bluesky.
I am thankful for meeting my first 100 followers. The #poetrycommunity here had been a blessing.

The link is my #poetry collection 'Stick, Hook, and a Pile of Yarn,' through Broken Sleep Books.
#amwriting #poem #poetsonbluesky

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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

YouTube video by A.S. Coomer Mick Kennedy & John Compton — Live Poetry from Flywheel Brewing

Mick Kennedy & John Compton were the features for this month’s reading.

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YouTube video by A.S. Coomer hamburger — Live Poetry from Serendipity Woods

i’m saying life’s too short to be in a cover band

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#PoetryReading #LivePoetry #Poetry #KentuckyPoet #ASCoomer #JamesBrown #Hamburger

YouTube video by A.S. Coomer hamburger — Live Poetry from Serendipity Woods

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

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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…the rats are flying. For the rats
have moved in, mostly, and this is for real.
—John Berryman, “‘The Prisoner of Shark Island’ with Paul Muni” #Reading #Poetry

you ain’t never far away
enough to not need
the blues.
—Tracie Morris, “Get Away 1928”
#Reading #Poetry