@davidjbauman.bsky.social
Poet, birder, librarianπ New Ohio Review, Shenandoah, Crab Creek Review, the MacGuffin. Three chapbooks, including Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems, with my son Micah, Seven Kitchens Press. davidjbauman.com #PromoteIndieLit
Yeah, these violent riots need to stop
18.10.2025 03:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0us pay for gas, Lunch, or some good books by other poets, your clicking would make our trip a little better. The amount there is just a suggestion. Iβm just grateful that you even consider it.
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So, that link isnβt working. You could just use my email in PayPalβ sonofwalt@gmail.com or try this link to my profile (which needs updating)
www.paypal.me/DavidJBauman
Omg, thanks so much!
17.10.2025 16:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ugh. They keep giving me problems with that. If you use PayPal otherwise, you could just try my email address at sonofwalt@gmail.com
Thank you!
Thanks so much!!οΏΌπ
17.10.2025 16:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Micah and David in their green shirts my girls like green shirt shows Peter Pan and says Iβm so fly. Micah has headphones around neck. They appear to be in the hat section of a store, Micah wearing a yellow fedora and David wearing an orange one, both with serious goofy looks on their faces
Iβm uncomfortable asking, but hey, Iβm a poet and a librarian, so what can I say? Micah and I are on our way to the teaming metropolis of Youngstown Ohio for a literary festival. We are on a really tight budget, but so is everyone else I know. If you find that you have a little extra to help1/2
17.10.2025 14:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Whatβs the best one-liner in movie history?
15.10.2025 04:17 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So bummed that I missed it
15.10.2025 04:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ugh! I wrote βtoy,β not you. β Sometimes I toy with them.β
15.10.2025 01:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I get those. Sometimes I you with them. Today:
15.10.2025 01:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βBring out your dad!β
Just one letter makes such a difference
Hahahaha, well, I never liked that brother anyway . . .
13.10.2025 20:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Well, the OP asked for our most unhinged take, thatβs mine. And yes, I agree, context always matters. I am happy to blame sloppy writers, but I can equally blame sloppy, if well intentioned teachers who use that three-word sentence indiscriminately.
13.10.2025 20:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βBe willing toβ is a very different command than βKill.β Itβs wildly taken out of context and in my opinion, is dangerous as such.
13.10.2025 20:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yes, absolutely. Like any tidbit of advice outside of its original context, in this case who it was written for and why.
13.10.2025 19:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The MYD mantra has led to a lot of soulless, though technically exact poetry.
13.10.2025 19:34 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βMurder your darlingsβ is rubbish advice unless you are a new writer, and only then within the context of loving something you wrote because you like the idea, not because it was well executed. Often darlings are darlings because theyβre good. They just need to find the right reader.
13.10.2025 19:34 β π 25 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0Last year, I re-read A Christmas Carol. I was struck by the idea that Scrooge was in love with Marley. His grief for his lost love is the whole reason heβs as rotten as he is.
I will not be taking questions.
βfor I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me inβ β Matthew 25:35
12.10.2025 15:34 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Have you signed up yet? It's this Tuesday!
12.10.2025 17:25 β π 9 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0Yes! This!
12.10.2025 18:25 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Two great egrets stand in a salt marsh, facing right. In the foreground and along the left side of image are marsh grasses, which have turned a golden brown color.
βSo, if you are too
tired to speak,
sit next to me
because I,
too,
am fluent in
silence.β
- R. Arnold
#imageandverse #eastcoastkin #birds
NEW POEM #273: "After Camping With Jeff in the Dismal Swamp I Consider Companionship" by Dustin King
"But Jeff, I followed you as you followed a heron, flirting with her, / or him, olympian wings beating air as we slid between cyprus knuckles"
stonecirclereview.com/after-camping/
#Poem #Poetry
This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.
12.10.2025 13:58 β π 20751 π 6684 π¬ 1363 π 468Amen
12.10.2025 16:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.
This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
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