@patrickrochepoetry.bsky.social
Award-winning poet featured on lots of websites and my mom's fridge. He/him. πblm PatrickRochePoetry.com
Also wanted to call back to books like Moby-Dick with the anachronistic comma use in the title for fun
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New poem in the latest issue of @thimblelitmag.bsky.social β¨π
Inspired by the origin of Aphrodite being born from sea foam and waves.
Loosely structured as a Petrarchan sonnet and tried to mirror the subject matter by having the line length increase gradually (expanding&contracting along the way)
"Hands, a god lifting me to a mountain, casting meΒ
in bronze to be a boy until bled dry. To be a stain
of nectar on a chin. To be a cup overflowing:
a cold, metal well from which to drink."
- @patrickrochepoetry.bsky.social
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Voicemail Poems winter 2025 cover Text placed against a wintry backdrop with snow
βGanymedeβ by Patrick Roche as it appears in Voicemail Poems winter 2025 issue Poem text: Eagle-winged cock on my phone. I joined the apps not earlier than I was allowed to, but earlier than I should have. A man, twice of me β in age, in size, in audacity β stretches a talon through the screen: Sweet boy. Soft skin. Baby calf. Milk trough. Can I touch? Can I smell? Can I taste? Are you really only 100 lbs? Thatβs so hot. Hellenic ideal: men whose beards could scrape the wool from a lambβs back, wanting to plaster me upon the hard bed-frame scene circling an urn. Terra cotta raptor of the Father-God. Hands, a fire on my thigh on the subway. Hands, cracking open the hide on the small of my back in the gay bar. Hands, flying from the messages. Hands, twine around the waist, across the mouth. Hands, a god lifting me to a mountain, casting me in bronze to be a boy until bled dry. To be a stain of nectar on a chin. To be a cup overflowing: a cold, metal well from which to drink.
The Peter Paul Rubens painting depicting Ganymede being abducted by the eagle
New poem in Voicemail Poems Winter 2025 issue!
Part of a larger collection Iβm working on about Olympian figures β queering them, placing them in contemporary context, etc.
Ganymede is a lad abducted by an eagle (Zeus in disguise or at his command) to be cupbearer to the gods & given eternal youth
βοΈ our winter issue is up! βοΈ
ft. @ppcocain.bsky.social, @dsrandol.bsky.social, @writtenbyallison.bsky.social, & more!
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Promotional image with the following info: Button Poetry Presents Patrick Roche & Rachel Wiley Thursday January 30, 2025 3:00 PM Eastern Time / 2:00 PM Central Time Facebook Live Stream The flyer includes images of Patrick Roche and Rachel Wiley, with their respective books shown above them: A Socially Acceptable Breakdown above Roche Revenge Body above Wiley
New plan! Tomorrow afternoon: double the poets, double the fun!
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An image from Button Poetry promoting Patrick Roche Livestream Tuesday 7:00pm CT Jan 28 Tune in on FB Patrick is seated on a wooden crate. He has paper wings on his back and is looking upward. There is also an image of Patrickβs book, A Socially Acceptable Breakdown
On the one hand, booo Meta!
But on the other hand, a girlβs gotta promote
Iβll be live on Button Poetryβs Facebook page tomorrow at 8 PM eastern/7:00 PM central to read a bunch of poems and talk about my upcoming virtual workshop series!
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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Forget a Spotify wrapped: show me your top 5 replayed Kellyoke covers, then we can talk
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