Robert Eric Shoemaker
@robeshoe.bsky.social
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“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”
Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
January 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM
“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”
Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
I’m sorry to report that tomorrow’s Lost Songs Cafe performance in Louisville is canceled due to the weather. I’m sad to not be able to share my poem “Tomorrow, Overnight” and the collaborations with Chris Gleason and Emily Ravenscraft with you live, and I hope I’m able to soon.
#poetry #amwriting
#poetry #amwriting
January 26, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I’m sorry to report that tomorrow’s Lost Songs Cafe performance in Louisville is canceled due to the weather. I’m sad to not be able to share my poem “Tomorrow, Overnight” and the collaborations with Chris Gleason and Emily Ravenscraft with you live, and I hope I’m able to soon.
#poetry #amwriting
#poetry #amwriting
One day in 1995, Bears legend Walter Payton was dining at Harry Caray’s before frantically running up four flights of stairs to see mobster Frank Nitti’s apartment. “He just started looking around like a detective,” becoming the unofficial tour guide for the rest of the day.
#chicagobears
#chicagobears
Dinner and a Show with the Chicago Mob
Behind the scenes of Nitti's Supper Club presents “Who Killed Eddie O’Hare? A True Crime History Mystery Musical” at Harry Caray’s Italian Steakhouse.
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January 23, 2026 at 5:31 PM
One day in 1995, Bears legend Walter Payton was dining at Harry Caray’s before frantically running up four flights of stairs to see mobster Frank Nitti’s apartment. “He just started looking around like a detective,” becoming the unofficial tour guide for the rest of the day.
#chicagobears
#chicagobears
Fresh newsletter! Subscribe read a new poem from my Holocaust Remembrance project "Tomorrow, Overnight" and a new translation from the prayers of Saint Catherine.
It’s 4 Degrees Outside
If you'd like to catch up on previous posts, visit "newsletter posts" from the menu on my website and enter the password: poetryismagic! Highlights: It’s 4 Degrees Outside “Dear Magnus” Saint Catherine’s Prayers Publications, Reviews, Happenings, & Whatnots - It’s 4 Degrees Outside So, I thought 18 degrees was bad, and then the universe elected to punish me for my silliness. As I write, it is 4 degrees outside and it’s mid-day. I hope you have dogs and/or cats to keep you company during the winter, too! -
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January 21, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Fresh newsletter! Subscribe read a new poem from my Holocaust Remembrance project "Tomorrow, Overnight" and a new translation from the prayers of Saint Catherine.
“Dear Magnus,
You made me beautiful.
I can never look in the mirror again, you’ve ruined me!
You made me beautiful.
I can never look in the mirror again, you’ve ruined me!
January 19, 2026 at 3:50 AM
“Dear Magnus,
You made me beautiful.
I can never look in the mirror again, you’ve ruined me!
You made me beautiful.
I can never look in the mirror again, you’ve ruined me!
My current favorite definition of metaphor! What’s yours? Thanks @victoriachang.bsky.social #poetry #amwriting
January 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM
My current favorite definition of metaphor! What’s yours? Thanks @victoriachang.bsky.social #poetry #amwriting
New Year, New Post! Featuring an upcoming live performance and excerpts of new erasures and essays!
ICE from My Window
If you'd like to catch up on previous posts, visit "newsletter posts" from the menu on my website and enter the password: poetryismagic! Highlights: ICE from My Window Lost Song Cafe in Louisville January 27th "Mad Prophet, Mad Poet, Mad Composition" Publications, Reviews, Happenings, & Whatnots - ICE from My Window Happy turn of the year, friends. I've had a great holiday season spending time with friends and family and had a busy, productive December before that. I hope you've had time with loved ones and a bit of rest before the always alarming and disarming beginning of a new year!
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December 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
New Year, New Post! Featuring an upcoming live performance and excerpts of new erasures and essays!
I’m the featured poet at The Lost Song Café on January 27th in Louisville, Kentucky! This is a FREE event in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Lost Song Cafe: Lost Communities Remembered in Song & Spoken Word
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December 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I’m the featured poet at The Lost Song Café on January 27th in Louisville, Kentucky! This is a FREE event in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“Caricatured as typewriter poet” WAS on my 2025 bingo card, and it got called just in time!
(Do I win with just a postage stamp or…)
Thank you Sam Nassau for copoeting with me at a rockin' wedding!
#poetry #typewriter
(Do I win with just a postage stamp or…)
Thank you Sam Nassau for copoeting with me at a rockin' wedding!
#poetry #typewriter
December 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“Caricatured as typewriter poet” WAS on my 2025 bingo card, and it got called just in time!
(Do I win with just a postage stamp or…)
Thank you Sam Nassau for copoeting with me at a rockin' wedding!
#poetry #typewriter
(Do I win with just a postage stamp or…)
Thank you Sam Nassau for copoeting with me at a rockin' wedding!
#poetry #typewriter
December 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Review: There’s nothing quite like a Manual Cinema production. They’re the kind of company that, once you’ve seen their work, becomes a point of comparison for other spectacles. I say with no exaggeration that anyone who enjoys theater should consider Manual Cinema’s productions required viewing.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Review: There’s nothing quite like a Manual Cinema production. They’re the kind of company that, once you’ve seen their work, becomes a point of comparison for other spectacles. I say with no exaggeration that anyone who enjoys theater should consider Manual Cinema’s productions required viewing.
I’m incredibly honored that Spoon River Poetry Review nominated my love poem “With the Kiss of a Thousand Flowers” for a Pushcart Prize!
“He brought me birds! hundreds of thousands of birds,
Splitting the sky with song,
With ‘you, you, you…’”
“He brought me birds! hundreds of thousands of birds,
Splitting the sky with song,
With ‘you, you, you…’”
December 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I’m incredibly honored that Spoon River Poetry Review nominated my love poem “With the Kiss of a Thousand Flowers” for a Pushcart Prize!
“He brought me birds! hundreds of thousands of birds,
Splitting the sky with song,
With ‘you, you, you…’”
“He brought me birds! hundreds of thousands of birds,
Splitting the sky with song,
With ‘you, you, you…’”
Reposted by Robert Eric Shoemaker
⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️presents “Humanizing Medicine,” a free, virtual workshop with Katie Farris this Friday, December 12, at 12 PM EST.
Link in bio to register—it’s free!
Link in bio to register—it’s free!
December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️presents “Humanizing Medicine,” a free, virtual workshop with Katie Farris this Friday, December 12, at 12 PM EST.
Link in bio to register—it’s free!
Link in bio to register—it’s free!
Articles: Criticism, Essay, Journalism, Interview
The following PDF includes samples of: “Chicago’s New Golden Age of Magic: A magic mansion with major funding enters a city where the art form already flourishes.” Feature Essay Newcity “Cruising Kentucky and Bulgaria: An Interview with Author…
The following PDF includes samples of: “Chicago’s New Golden Age of Magic: A magic mansion with major funding enters a city where the art form already flourishes.” Feature Essay Newcity “Cruising Kentucky and Bulgaria: An Interview with Author…
Articles: Criticism, Essay, Journalism, Interview
The following PDF includes samples of: “Chicago’s New Golden Age of Magic: A magic mansion with major funding enters a city where the art form already flourishes.” Feature Essay Newcity “Cruising Kentucky and Bulgaria: An Interview with Author Garth Greenwell” Interview Feature Queer Kentucky “This Is the Moment for Kokandy’s “Jekyll & Hyde”: Jaw-dropping vocals breathe life into a melodramatic cult favorite.” Theatre Review Newcity “Crane by Tessa Bolsover” Poetry Review Rain Taxi “‘A Public for Poetry’: On Harriet Monroe and Poetry” Exhibition Feature The Poetry Foundation…
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November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Articles: Criticism, Essay, Journalism, Interview
The following PDF includes samples of: “Chicago’s New Golden Age of Magic: A magic mansion with major funding enters a city where the art form already flourishes.” Feature Essay Newcity “Cruising Kentucky and Bulgaria: An Interview with Author…
The following PDF includes samples of: “Chicago’s New Golden Age of Magic: A magic mansion with major funding enters a city where the art form already flourishes.” Feature Essay Newcity “Cruising Kentucky and Bulgaria: An Interview with Author…
Newest blog post, in montage style!
FALL is Over
If you'd like to catch up on previous posts, visit "newsletter posts" from the menu on my website and enter the password: poetryismagic! Highlights: Ma Vie comme Montage Reviews on Reviews Publications, Happenings, & Whatnots - It has been a busy minute since I last posted! Thank you for reading and keeping up with me. In montage style, here's what I've been up to: Tucson, Arizona. Scene: a bar after the University of Arizona narrowly wins their homecoming match. 8 translators of poetry whispering in everyone's ears. A surprisingly successful time.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Newest blog post, in montage style!
“Let’s just be grown-up and pretend magic is real.”
I interviewed several of Chicago’s biggest magic acts to write this in-depth story of today’s magic performance scene. Magic shows appeal to the kid in all of us, which I mean in the least dismissive way possible.
I interviewed several of Chicago’s biggest magic acts to write this in-depth story of today’s magic performance scene. Magic shows appeal to the kid in all of us, which I mean in the least dismissive way possible.
Chicago's New Golden Age of Magic
A magic mansion with major funding enters a city where the art form already flourishes.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Let’s just be grown-up and pretend magic is real.”
I interviewed several of Chicago’s biggest magic acts to write this in-depth story of today’s magic performance scene. Magic shows appeal to the kid in all of us, which I mean in the least dismissive way possible.
I interviewed several of Chicago’s biggest magic acts to write this in-depth story of today’s magic performance scene. Magic shows appeal to the kid in all of us, which I mean in the least dismissive way possible.
Micro review of “Paper Money” by Winshen Liu!
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“Can you love someone if you don’t know their birthday?” from “Paper Money” by Winshen Liu - eat these poems up!#sealeychallenge #poetrytok #booktok #review #poetrytiktok
TikTok video by Robert Eric Shoemaker
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August 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Micro review of “Paper Money” by Winshen Liu!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8B16wSB/
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Bill Knott: Beat poetry, but make it short
A micro review
#poetry #sealeychallenge
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A micro review
#poetry #sealeychallenge
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The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans
“Bill Knott writes stunning poems in which he wires the…
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August 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Bill Knott: Beat poetry, but make it short
A micro review
#poetry #sealeychallenge
www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...
A micro review
#poetry #sealeychallenge
www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...
Ever adjuncted? Read this and fear for your kidneys (if you haven’t had to sell them yet)!
First book of August: “this abattoir is a college” by Orchid Tierney
#sealeychallenge
First book of August: “this abattoir is a college” by Orchid Tierney
#sealeychallenge
August 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Ever adjuncted? Read this and fear for your kidneys (if you haven’t had to sell them yet)!
First book of August: “this abattoir is a college” by Orchid Tierney
#sealeychallenge
First book of August: “this abattoir is a college” by Orchid Tierney
#sealeychallenge
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Hello/Goodbye July!
What I've been up to this month!
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July 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Say you’re teaching African American lit—which I may or may not be saying myself—what is your must read book from the last 20 years?
July 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Say you’re teaching African American lit—which I may or may not be saying myself—what is your must read book from the last 20 years?
What are you most excited to read during this August’s #SealeyChallenge?
Convincing myself I’m gonna do it by continuing to ask others about it. Accountability!?
Convincing myself I’m gonna do it by continuing to ask others about it. Accountability!?
July 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What are you most excited to read during this August’s #SealeyChallenge?
Convincing myself I’m gonna do it by continuing to ask others about it. Accountability!?
Convincing myself I’m gonna do it by continuing to ask others about it. Accountability!?