Shout out to AmericanPoet.org for featuring me and my poetry in their latest blog. It’s an honor, especially when I see the many other poets whose works I admire a great deal who have also honored by this wonderful source for American Poetry.
www.americanpoet.org/2025/09/poet...
Happy Father’s Day to all of you incredible dads out there. I dedicate this reading to the two amazing humans who call me dad. Stella and Hank, I love you the world! ❤
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Happy Pride Month to all of my dear friends in the LGBTQ+ Community. I stand with you today, in June, and all year long.
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13 years ago today, my “Michigan’s Creative Writing Teacher of the Year Era” began!
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2 Years Ago:
“For his contributions to his community, the arts and arts education, his promotion of the southern literary and musical traditions, and his promise to install the citizenship ideals in his students that will ensure a better tomorrow for Kentucky, the South, and the Nation.”
Recorded live at Midland Reads Poetry, 4/27/25.
“To the Students of the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School (1893-1934)” by Jared Morningstar. Originally published in Lost in America (Alien Buddha Press, 2023).
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Just your neighborhood, friendly educator with an important public service announcement :-)
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It’s panel time at A Literary Affair! It’s an honor to be the representative for poetry :-)
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Business Card Official
#kycoloneljstar
Anyone in need of some cool music to listen to AND poetry/lyrics to read? Here are the lyric videos for all songs on A Slice of American Pie, the album I made with the incredible Brotherwell!
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My musical partner Brotherwell just shared this with me. Apparently, some folks enjoyed our song/poem “The Truth About Santa Claus” last month. 961 streams in the past 28 days? The rest of our album, A Slice of American Pie, is on all major streaming services.
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I was recently interviewed by the incomparable Diana Kathryn Penn for Pages Promotions, LLC about my writing, what I’m reading, and other fun literary topics. If you’re interested, please give it a read! 🙂
www.dkpwriter.com/post/inside-...
Ready to get this 4th Marking Period started! :-)
31.03.2025 12:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This beautiful machine is AWAKE after a long winter’s slumber. Listen to that engine! :-)
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Driving tunes :-)
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WRITING NEWS: It was an honor to be invited to submit a piece for Alien Buddha Press’ 75th milestone issue of Alien Buddha Zine, which will showcase the essence of the ‘zine and ABP as a whole. My poem, “We’re Not Going Back”, will be published within its pages.
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Absolutely! And I hold my creative writing students and workshop participants accountable to this rule as well starting on Day 1. Ego and competition ruin writing communities. We need to have each other’s backs, not be at each other’s throats.
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To those who celebrate 🎉 😊 🔪 🩸 😂
(Watch your backs!)
Because of times like these, because someone has to do it, it might as well be me. ✊✊✊
(Great shirt, @dreamclothing.bsky.social )
Here is what everyone who doesn’t understand tariffs or who thinks tariffs are a good idea needs to read. It was published by the Cato Institute, which is no Democratic/Liberal think tank. Tariffs are bad news, and people need to wake up to that.
www.cato.org/publications...
Was giving this is a listen a little bit ago. Every time I do, I am more proud of it. Brotherwell and I had a blast working on this record.
The album is available on major music streaming platforms, including Spotify.
Here is a link for the YouTube playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Happy Black History Month!
01.02.2025 23:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stella made this today. We sure have a lot of fun together as a family. This reminds me that it makes a difference!
27.01.2025 23:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It took 44+ years, but I finally managed to stumble into a TV interview! 😛 lol
If you missed it, check out ABC12 News’ article on today’s Saginaw Poetry Out Loud competition! Here is the link:
www.abc12.com/news/poetry-...
Happy National Spouse’s Day, everybody, but especially to the incredible Amanda Morningstar. Love you, hun! When it comes to spouses, I sure hit the jackpot. ❤ #NationalSpousesDay #love
26.01.2025 17:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Selflessness over Selfishness.
Pass it on.
Happy Martin Luther King Day, everybody.
Sitting in the same chair that Hank Williams sat in when he received his last haircut on the last day of his life. Surreal moment.
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Yep
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I need to hit Santa up for a pair of those Flu Games! LOL At least the kids had a chance to meet him. I was out picking up pizza
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That’s a wrap! See you in a couple of weeks, SASA. J-Star, out!
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