joebarca.bsky.social
@joebarca.bsky.social
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New spring issue just dropped!
“Tomorrow will bring a different mess,” writes Maria Koors in “The Optimist’s Almanac.” As I’ve prepared this Spring 2025 issue, I’ve been thinking about the messes that continue to pile up, both personal and shared.

www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-38-spr...
March 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Congrats @joebarca.bsky.social good to see this again!
January 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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a word thief hovers
in the attic of my mind

—Joe Barca @joebarca.bsky.social
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“The Yips” by Joe Barca
I play pickleball—a lot can’t get my serve in the inkwell is dry my poems are all shitty I fail again and again someone says
www.rattle.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
had a poem published in my dream journal yesterday. The magazine is called Rattle. And the poem is about Pickleball.
November 19, 2024 at 3:10 PM
swimming
with snow minnows
silence
February 13, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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This is what happens when you read Anne Carson and Sabrina Orah Mark on the same day 🫣

#poetry
February 9, 2024 at 2:02 PM
marriage
one infinite
pie
February 8, 2024 at 9:33 PM