Michael Boccardo (he/him)
@mboccardopoet76.bsky.social
🏳️🌈Cat Dad 🐈⬛🐈⬛Cinephile 🎞️🎬Published poet ✍️ with work appearing in various journals including Kestrel, The Southern Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and others, as well as several anthologies. www.michaelboccardo.com
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Spooky Seasonn is here! Subscribe to my YouTube channel @anotherscreamqueen76 for unrehearsed, unscripted (for the most part), and all camp with a dash of Southern queer movie reviews. 🏳️🌈😈😱#31filmsofhalloween2025 #soonthedarkness #Igbtqhorrornerds #anotherscreamqueen76
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Another Scream Queen
Sassy and spooktastic reviews from horror filmdom. Unscripted. Unrehearsed. All camp.
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September 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Spooky Seasonn is here! Subscribe to my YouTube channel @anotherscreamqueen76 for unrehearsed, unscripted (for the most part), and all camp with a dash of Southern queer movie reviews. 🏳️🌈😈😱#31filmsofhalloween2025 #soonthedarkness #Igbtqhorrornerds #anotherscreamqueen76
youtube.com/@anotherscre...
youtube.com/@anotherscre...
Spooky Seasonn is here! Subscribe to my YouTube channel @anotherscreamqueen76 for unrehearsed, unscripted (for the most part), and all camp with a dash of Southern queer movie reviews. 🏳️🌈😈😱#31filmsofhalloween2025 #soonthedarkness #Igbtqhorrornerds #anotherscreamqueen76
youtube.com/@anotherscre...
youtube.com/@anotherscre...
Another Scream Queen
Sassy and spooktastic reviews from horror filmdom. Unscripted. Unrehearsed. All camp.
youtube.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Spooky Seasonn is here! Subscribe to my YouTube channel @anotherscreamqueen76 for unrehearsed, unscripted (for the most part), and all camp with a dash of Southern queer movie reviews. 🏳️🌈😈😱#31filmsofhalloween2025 #soonthedarkness #Igbtqhorrornerds #anotherscreamqueen76
youtube.com/@anotherscre...
youtube.com/@anotherscre...
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NEW POEM #261: "When Friends Ask If I’ll Ever Marry Again" by Michael Boccardo (@mboccardopoet76.bsky.social )
"My sudden
storm. My arched
cathedral. Our tongues
unburdened of every
oath like the slow
scratch of crows
clotting the sky."
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"My sudden
storm. My arched
cathedral. Our tongues
unburdened of every
oath like the slow
scratch of crows
clotting the sky."
stonecirclereview.com/when-friends...
August 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
NEW POEM #261: "When Friends Ask If I’ll Ever Marry Again" by Michael Boccardo (@mboccardopoet76.bsky.social )
"My sudden
storm. My arched
cathedral. Our tongues
unburdened of every
oath like the slow
scratch of crows
clotting the sky."
stonecirclereview.com/when-friends...
"My sudden
storm. My arched
cathedral. Our tongues
unburdened of every
oath like the slow
scratch of crows
clotting the sky."
stonecirclereview.com/when-friends...
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Today's Featured Poem:
"Deep Learning" by Carolyn Oliver (@CarolynROliver.bsky.social), from The Alcestis Machine, published by Acre Books (@acrebooks.bsky.social).
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"Deep Learning" by Carolyn Oliver (@CarolynROliver.bsky.social), from The Alcestis Machine, published by Acre Books (@acrebooks.bsky.social).
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Deep Learning
In another life, I am a voice for hire. Nights
in a blanketed back room I give you names,
side effects, animals, hours, kinks,
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April 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today's Featured Poem:
"Deep Learning" by Carolyn Oliver (@CarolynROliver.bsky.social), from The Alcestis Machine, published by Acre Books (@acrebooks.bsky.social).
Read here:
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"Deep Learning" by Carolyn Oliver (@CarolynROliver.bsky.social), from The Alcestis Machine, published by Acre Books (@acrebooks.bsky.social).
Read here:
poems.com/poem/deep-le...
This gorgeous poem from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social features on Poetry Daily. “the names of the doves calling in the hems of the day”. Music!
Today’s Featured Poem:
“Invocation” by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, from Larks, published by Ohio University Press.
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“Invocation” by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, from Larks, published by Ohio University Press.
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Invocation
I do not know whether it is morning or mourning
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April 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This gorgeous poem from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social features on Poetry Daily. “the names of the doves calling in the hems of the day”. Music!
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Artists report on the inner life…every piece of art, every performance, is a state-of-the-soul address.
We cannot afford to ignore our inner lives, our imaginations, for when we do, we become capable of extreme cruelty and destruction.
—Jane Kenyon
We cannot afford to ignore our inner lives, our imaginations, for when we do, we become capable of extreme cruelty and destruction.
—Jane Kenyon
March 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Artists report on the inner life…every piece of art, every performance, is a state-of-the-soul address.
We cannot afford to ignore our inner lives, our imaginations, for when we do, we become capable of extreme cruelty and destruction.
—Jane Kenyon
We cannot afford to ignore our inner lives, our imaginations, for when we do, we become capable of extreme cruelty and destruction.
—Jane Kenyon
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Today's Featured Poet:
Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her selected poems, Rookie (2022), and The Air Year (2020) are two of Carcanet’s most popular books of the present decade.
Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her selected poems, Rookie (2022), and The Air Year (2020) are two of Carcanet’s most popular books of the present decade.
March 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Today's Featured Poet:
Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her selected poems, Rookie (2022), and The Air Year (2020) are two of Carcanet’s most popular books of the present decade.
Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her selected poems, Rookie (2022), and The Air Year (2020) are two of Carcanet’s most popular books of the present decade.
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Today's Featured Poem:
"The Night of Her Funeral" by Jen Siraganian, from Issue 24 Volume 2 of Mizna.
Read here:
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"The Night of Her Funeral" by Jen Siraganian, from Issue 24 Volume 2 of Mizna.
Read here:
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The Night of Her Funeral
I wandered upstairs where the adults galaxied
around our grandfather, a captivated audience
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February 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Today's Featured Poem:
"The Night of Her Funeral" by Jen Siraganian, from Issue 24 Volume 2 of Mizna.
Read here:
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"The Night of Her Funeral" by Jen Siraganian, from Issue 24 Volume 2 of Mizna.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/the-nig...
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Today's Featured Poem:
"Good Mare" by Sara Ellen Fowler, from Two Signatures, published by University of Utah Press.
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"Good Mare" by Sara Ellen Fowler, from Two Signatures, published by University of Utah Press.
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Good Mare
I did not abandon you
when the barn burned with contempt
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February 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Today's Featured Poem:
"Good Mare" by Sara Ellen Fowler, from Two Signatures, published by University of Utah Press.
Read here:
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"Good Mare" by Sara Ellen Fowler, from Two Signatures, published by University of Utah Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/good-ma...
March 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Bianca Stone.
February 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Bianca Stone.
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A poem that begins with a jellyfish.
February 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A poem that begins with a jellyfish.
February 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Today's Feature:
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Drafts, Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes about his poem "Paradise Lost."
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In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Drafts, Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes about his poem "Paradise Lost."
Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
Rowan Ricardo Phillips on "Paradise Lost"
The poem that would eventually become “Paradise Lost” first appeared as a much longer and more robust poem under the title “from Lost” in a 2021 issue of Ploughshares; but even that poem was a fragmen...
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February 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Today's Feature:
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Drafts, Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes about his poem "Paradise Lost."
Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Drafts, Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes about his poem "Paradise Lost."
Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
February 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Wonderful poems. Check these out, especially if you have aging parents.
February 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Wonderful poems. Check these out, especially if you have aging parents.
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