@mrmeyerhofer.bsky.social
Poet and sci-fi/fantasy author, socially anxious weightlifter, progressive loudmouth, fairly decent human. For more info and an embarrassing childhood photo, visit www.troublewithhammers.com.
Thank you, Rachel Neve Midbar at Calul Journal, for this feature of my work! I love how she combined my poems with some great, striking artwork from Faith Ringgold. Here's the link, friends. I hope you're surviving Monday! calul.substack.com/p/history-to...
19.01.2026 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last one from Frigg. This one is about a childhood memory of my late brother. Thanks again to Frigg for publishing these -- and to you, for taking the time to check them out! Original link: friggmagazine.com/issuesixtyfi...
12.01.2026 17:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here's a weird one, second of three appearing in Frigg. Thanks for taking a look! Original link: friggmagazine.com/issuesixtyfi...
11.01.2026 15:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you, Ellen Parker of Frigg, for giving three of my poems a nice new home! Here's the first, "Time Capsule." Please check out the whole issue and give the other writers some love, too. Issue link: friggmagazine.com/index65.htm
10.01.2026 17:28 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 2
This is pretty much the definitive video of the incident, proving that no, the officer wasn't struck and yes, ICE murdered her. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
09.01.2026 22:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bystander: "Can I go check a pulse?"
ICE: "No! Back up now!"
Bystander: "I'm a physician -- "
ICE: "I don't care."
ICE just murdered someone in Minneapolis, claiming self-defense. Like the time they denied casually tossing tear gas into the car of a Latino family with a baby just for kicks, video proves they're liars. If you voted for this, trusting this admin to do the right thing, time to wake the fuck up.
07.01.2026 21:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy New Year, friends! I'm glad you still exist. Here's an oldie from my third book, Damnatio Memoriae ("damned memory"). See you in 2026!
31.12.2025 21:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Another occasionally fun benefit of being half-deaf: I just heard a commercial whose slogan is "Rethink your pretzel," but I heard it as "We think you're a pretzel." To be fair, I can't disagree.
03.12.2025 20:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just received a kind message from someone who saw my reading on Rattlecast (from a while back) and wanted to know if one of the poems I shared was in a book yet. It isn't, though Missouri Review gave it a home a while back. So obviously, I'll use this as an excuse to shamelessly self-promote. :)
16.11.2025 23:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Shortly before my mom died, they played Schindler's List commercial-free on TV. I was at a friend's but called home and asked her to tape it. Weeks later, she had her final heart attack. I don't even have a VCR but that worn yellowed label with her handwriting has been with me for 28 years.
04.10.2025 01:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I know it sometimes feels like we're standing in a burning house and all the doors are locked, but for what it's worth, thank you to everyone who's doing their best to hold on to their humanity. I know it's tough but no matter how bad things get, that matters. Deep breaths. Take care.
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This was a tough one to write -- many thanks to Mark Danowsky for giving this one a home. oneartpoetry.com/2025/09/03/a...
03.09.2025 14:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The first ebooks in both of my fantasy trilogies (or books 1 and 3 of 6, if you want to think of it that way) are free on Amazon from now until the 18th (my birthday, coincidentally) if you want to add them to your collection! 🙂 I'll post both links below.
15.08.2025 15:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Thanks again to Poetry is Currency for publishing these! Here's the last from the feature -- a more experimental one originally inspired by a documentary I saw on a form of torture involving sensory deprivation. Here's the link to the whole feature, too: poetrycurrency.com/poet/michael...
25.07.2025 17:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And here's another (I guess about me being an anxious mortal idiot). :)
22.07.2025 21:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
First of three new ones that just found a home in the fine journal, Poetry is Currency. This one was written during the pandemic while I was losing someone very dear to me (sadly not the last) and tried imagining what was happening from the virus's perspective.
22.07.2025 21:04 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Honored and grateful to have this one in Gulf Coast.
12.06.2025 15:04 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Happy Monday! Much love to Cider Press Review for publishing my poem, "Last Words of an Iowan." ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2...
17.03.2025 17:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not sure why we're being led by a guy who can't even put his glasses on but Schumer and his fellow sellouts just betrayed not only their constituents but the Constitution itself. Meanwhile, Republicans say "I can't believe they fell for it!" as they laugh their asses off.
14.03.2025 23:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to Blue Mountains Review for giving this one a home!
13.03.2025 17:28 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0New poem up on Exposed Bone today -- FYI, this one references my lingering guilt over using a sword (many years ago) to kill what I thought at the time was a rabid animal. www.exposedbonemag.com/pieces/heter...
12.03.2025 17:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maddening that the left's response to Trump's social security lies was... a boring speech from right-leaning Dem, Elissa Slotkin, that practically nobody watched. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders gave a response that got 50K hits just in the few minutes I was watching (over two mill. by morning).
05.03.2025 20:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In a final appeal, Trudeau called Trump "a very smart guy." I wonder how many shots of whiskey (or Maple syrup) he needed after having to compliment the intelligence of a guy who thought Frederick Douglass was still alive.
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