petro c. k.
@petrock.bsky.social
Have we hit rock-bottom yet?
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EIC: https://post-ku.com
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EIC: dadakuku.com @dadakuku.bsky.social
EIC: https://post-ku.com
A new one from me, I response to the horror show of our politics:
A new verse from yours truly @petrock.bsky.social:
yacht shadow redacting the baby thrown overboard
— petro c. k.
yacht shadow redacting the baby thrown overboard
— petro c. k.
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yacht shadow redacting the baby thrown overboard — petro c. k.
dadakuku.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
A new one from me, I response to the horror show of our politics:
February 1, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Many thanks to Robin for taking in a couple of wee verses of mine for smols!
As much as I love getting things in print, online journals such as smols are crucial for publishing of-the-moment verses while the impact is still fresh
Read more here:
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
As much as I love getting things in print, online journals such as smols are crucial for publishing of-the-moment verses while the impact is still fresh
Read more here:
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Many thanks to Robin for taking in a couple of wee verses of mine for smols!
As much as I love getting things in print, online journals such as smols are crucial for publishing of-the-moment verses while the impact is still fresh
Read more here:
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
As much as I love getting things in print, online journals such as smols are crucial for publishing of-the-moment verses while the impact is still fresh
Read more here:
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
Oh look, it's my trajectory 😬😭😂
January 19, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Oh look, it's my trajectory 😬😭😂
The first issue of my new journal Post-Ku is now available! Post-ku on postcards! I won't show the verses, instead here's the other side just waiting for your address, so it can show up in your actual physical mailbox and you can see for yourself!
Order/subscribe:
post-ku.com
Order/subscribe:
post-ku.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:13 AM
The first issue of my new journal Post-Ku is now available! Post-ku on postcards! I won't show the verses, instead here's the other side just waiting for your address, so it can show up in your actual physical mailbox and you can see for yourself!
Order/subscribe:
post-ku.com
Order/subscribe:
post-ku.com
Thank you so much to editor Seth Copeland of @petrichorlit.bsky.social for accepting a trio of verses for no. 29, Vol. 6 of Pebbles (which is also the name of a great series of 1960's freakbeat/garage-rock)! Hello and congratulations to the rest who appear!
petrichormag.com/29-pebbles-v...
petrichormag.com/29-pebbles-v...
January 16, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Thank you so much to editor Seth Copeland of @petrichorlit.bsky.social for accepting a trio of verses for no. 29, Vol. 6 of Pebbles (which is also the name of a great series of 1960's freakbeat/garage-rock)! Hello and congratulations to the rest who appear!
petrichormag.com/29-pebbles-v...
petrichormag.com/29-pebbles-v...
Many thanks to editor Johannes S. H. Berg for accepting a couple of monoku for The Other Bunny!
TOB is back, and has expanded the scope beyond haibun to include other short forms, reclaiming some of the space left behind when Bones closed up.
Check it out!
theotherbunny.blog
TOB is back, and has expanded the scope beyond haibun to include other short forms, reclaiming some of the space left behind when Bones closed up.
Check it out!
theotherbunny.blog
January 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Many thanks to editor Johannes S. H. Berg for accepting a couple of monoku for The Other Bunny!
TOB is back, and has expanded the scope beyond haibun to include other short forms, reclaiming some of the space left behind when Bones closed up.
Check it out!
theotherbunny.blog
TOB is back, and has expanded the scope beyond haibun to include other short forms, reclaiming some of the space left behind when Bones closed up.
Check it out!
theotherbunny.blog
Those who create and nurture our humanity are feared and targeted by those who seek to destroy it.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. She was also a prize-winning poet.
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Those who create and nurture our humanity are feared and targeted by those who seek to destroy it.
It's here! The biggest and best review of experimental micropoetry is now out in the wild!
I'm pleased to reveal dadakuku Vol 3! This anthology, with 657 verses from 239 authors across 313 pages, is the largest yet. As usual, it is jam-packed with baffling brevity from the international avant-garde literary community. Thank you for your support!
a.co/d/8CpODc1
a.co/d/8CpODc1
January 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
It's here! The biggest and best review of experimental micropoetry is now out in the wild!
My first verse of the new year!
A new verse from yours truly @petrock.bsky.social:
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗲𝘀
It’s all a Marsha Marsha Marsha Hoax!!
— petro c. k.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗲𝘀
It’s all a Marsha Marsha Marsha Hoax!!
— petro c. k.
The Brady Bunch of Lies
It’s all a Marsha Marsha Marsha Hoax!! — petro c. k.
dadakuku.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:14 PM
My first verse of the new year!
A warm joyous thanks to editor @katherineewinnick for selecting my verse for the latest issue of @shadowpondjournal!
I wish you all a bountiful holiday season and let's hope for a year with potential realized!
shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/shad...
I wish you all a bountiful holiday season and let's hope for a year with potential realized!
shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/shad...
December 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
A warm joyous thanks to editor @katherineewinnick for selecting my verse for the latest issue of @shadowpondjournal!
I wish you all a bountiful holiday season and let's hope for a year with potential realized!
shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/shad...
I wish you all a bountiful holiday season and let's hope for a year with potential realized!
shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/shad...
What a year of absurdity! Dadakuku is closed for the rest of the year, thank you to everyone for your support and submissions!
A new verse from yours truly @petrock.bsky.social. This will be the last verse for dadakuku this year, and it will be closed for submissions through Jan 1. Look for news on the print anthology soon!
dadakuku.com/2025/12/19/8...
dadakuku.com/2025/12/19/8...
December 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
What a year of absurdity! Dadakuku is closed for the rest of the year, thank you to everyone for your support and submissions!
It's always an honor to appear in Modern Haiku, many thanks to editor Paul Miller for including my verse in the latest issue! Congratulations to everyone else who appears, it's a veritable who's who of contemporary English-language haiku.
December 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It's always an honor to appear in Modern Haiku, many thanks to editor Paul Miller for including my verse in the latest issue! Congratulations to everyone else who appears, it's a veritable who's who of contemporary English-language haiku.
Many thanks to guest editor Arvinder Kaur for selecting my monoku for commentary in this installment of Haiku Dialogue, using the theme of those who work the soil. Hello and congrats on the others who appear! 👋
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Many thanks to guest editor Arvinder Kaur for selecting my monoku for commentary in this installment of Haiku Dialogue, using the theme of those who work the soil. Hello and congrats on the others who appear! 👋
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
Many thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson, the tireless editor of smols, for including a couple microverses of mine in today's release of nanopoems:
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birds falling silent shadow docket
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police state the obvious
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smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
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birds falling silent shadow docket
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police state the obvious
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smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Many thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson, the tireless editor of smols, for including a couple microverses of mine in today's release of nanopoems:
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birds falling silent shadow docket
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police state the obvious
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smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
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birds falling silent shadow docket
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police state the obvious
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smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
Many thanks to @teatimehaiku.bsky.social and the rest of the editorial team at Frogpond for selecting my verse for the latest issue, jam-packed as always with a who's-who of contemporary haiku, haibun, linked verse, and literary discourse on the forms.
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Many thanks to @teatimehaiku.bsky.social and the rest of the editorial team at Frogpond for selecting my verse for the latest issue, jam-packed as always with a who's-who of contemporary haiku, haibun, linked verse, and literary discourse on the forms.
Many thanks to @michelerule.bsky.social and Sally Quon for selecting my verse for The Solitary Daisy's theme of music in Issue 64!
December 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Many thanks to @michelerule.bsky.social and Sally Quon for selecting my verse for The Solitary Daisy's theme of music in Issue 64!
Sometimes I doom-write instead of doom-scroll....
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Sometimes I doom-write instead of doom-scroll....
Many many thanks to @komadorihaiku.bsky.social and Kat Lehmann for including a couple verses in the latest issue (no. 14) of @whiptailjournal.bsky.social as well as for the honor of the "headstone" verse in being nominated for the Touchstone Award!
www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Many many thanks to @komadorihaiku.bsky.social and Kat Lehmann for including a couple verses in the latest issue (no. 14) of @whiptailjournal.bsky.social as well as for the honor of the "headstone" verse in being nominated for the Touchstone Award!
www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
Many thanks to the new editors of @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social, @pippaesque.bsky.social, and @orrinonline.bsky.social, for selecting my verse. I love what they've done with the latest issue, and there is so much stellar work within! Check it out!
prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i...
prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i...
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Many thanks to the new editors of @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social, @pippaesque.bsky.social, and @orrinonline.bsky.social, for selecting my verse. I love what they've done with the latest issue, and there is so much stellar work within! Check it out!
prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i...
prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i...
I am thankful for editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for selecting these verses for today's round of itchy poetry at Five Fleas! Congratulations to everyone else!
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/morn...
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/morn...
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I am thankful for editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for selecting these verses for today's round of itchy poetry at Five Fleas! Congratulations to everyone else!
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/morn...
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/morn...
Many thanks to guest editor Deborah Karl-Brandt for selecting my verse for this week's prompt at Haiku Dialogue (by @haikufound.bsky.social) of music and the spiritual path. Hello and congratulations on the rest who appear! 👋
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Many thanks to guest editor Deborah Karl-Brandt for selecting my verse for this week's prompt at Haiku Dialogue (by @haikufound.bsky.social) of music and the spiritual path. Hello and congratulations on the rest who appear! 👋
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
I came across an insightful interview with Richard Gilbert from 2005 that laid out some key points about modern contemporary haiku that I had been trying to formulate myself, especially about haiku and its development in conversation with modern art and lit.
livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-hai...
livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-hai...
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I came across an insightful interview with Richard Gilbert from 2005 that laid out some key points about modern contemporary haiku that I had been trying to formulate myself, especially about haiku and its development in conversation with modern art and lit.
livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-hai...
livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-hai...
A new one from me inspired by, well, this whole year...
A new verse from yours truly @petrock.bsky.social:
rotten apples a thousand cuts of sado-governance
— petro c. k.
rotten apples a thousand cuts of sado-governance
— petro c. k.
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rotten apples a thousand cuts of sado-governance — petro c. k.
dadakuku.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A new one from me inspired by, well, this whole year...
Many thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for including a couple diminutive verses in her journal of extremely short poetry, SMOLS. Congrats to today's other featured poets, check out everything here:
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
solving for fragile X
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midnight with moves like Jager
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
solving for fragile X
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midnight with moves like Jager
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Many thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for including a couple diminutive verses in her journal of extremely short poetry, SMOLS. Congrats to today's other featured poets, check out everything here:
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
solving for fragile X
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midnight with moves like Jager
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
solving for fragile X
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midnight with moves like Jager