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Daniel Galef
@danielgalef.bsky.social
📖First book IMAGINARY SONNETS available now wherever sonnets are sold📖

danielgalef.com/book/
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October 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
After a year and a half, I have again found/reset my password. (It was "swordfish.") Wait aw crud---
October 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I am in the New Yorker (sort of)! My cartoon caption is one of three finalists and now it is in the hands of YOU, the people.

Follow this link to vote (or click the “Vote” tab on the main cartoon site):
www.newyorker.com/cartoons/con...
Cartoon Caption Contest
This Week's New Yorker Caption Contest. Enter your submission for the latest caption-less cartoon, then rate other readers' captions, vote on finalists, and view the winner (it could be you!).
www.newyorker.com
May 4, 2024 at 9:12 PM
it is permitted to permit
May 4, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Not that anyone ASKED but I found my password again! Off we go into the wild blue yonder...
May 4, 2024 at 9:10 PM
First poem I'm posting! Something I invented (I think? nothing's really original), a convertible sonnet that's also a ballad---"Casey to His Bat," featured today on Formal Verse:

formalverse.com/2023/10/13/u...
Using form: biform poem: Daniel Galef, ‘Casey to his Bat’
(as a sonnet after Eugene Lee-Hamilton’s 1888 collection “Imaginary Sonnets”) You’re swell! No wizard’s-wand or Rod of Aaron With this ease can whack one past the glove The way a sparrow wea...
formalverse.com
October 14, 2023 at 6:11 PM
A new story/humor piece up at Points in Case, "A Northern Writer Writes a Southern Story"
www.pointsincase.com/articles/a-n...
A Northern Writer Writes a Southern Story | Points in Case
Pa was hard at work at his moonshine-still turning cotton into cotton gin. Grandpa was reading the paper. The paper was also Southern.
www.pointsincase.com
October 12, 2023 at 9:05 PM
Cincinnati is so hilly the campus bike racks are full of people inventing the motorcycle from first principles
October 4, 2023 at 2:51 PM
Thank you very much to @matthewrettino.bsky.social for the invitation! I will soon start spamming the blue sky with poems and bad puns
September 28, 2023 at 12:13 AM