John Roche
@jr-placitas.bsky.social
Poet in NM, retired English prof, editor, Poetry Playhouse Publications, author, Tubbables. Blue Team! 🇺🇦! No DMs. Spoutible: JRPlacitasPoet
Website: https://www.poetryplayhouse.com/
Website: https://www.poetryplayhouse.com/
Very glad you are back! Just like America! Had a fun time with our visitors. Turquoise Museum and Old Town trick-or-treaters. Ran into Melanie Stansbury at Scandinavian Fest, giving away her mom’s collection. Here she is with Jules.
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Very glad you are back! Just like America! Had a fun time with our visitors. Turquoise Museum and Old Town trick-or-treaters. Ran into Melanie Stansbury at Scandinavian Fest, giving away her mom’s collection. Here she is with Jules.
Rolling Stone: “The objective is to make [activists] feel as if the safest smartest thing to do is to disengage with political activism until things cool down,” Kautz says. “The challenge is how to continue being an activist in the face of that fear.”
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Rolling Stone: “The objective is to make [activists] feel as if the safest smartest thing to do is to disengage with political activism until things cool down,” Kautz says. “The challenge is how to continue being an activist in the face of that fear.”
Good morning! Woke at 3:30 am. Went to my office for an hour and got some things done before heading back to bed.
Today’s prize specimen.
Today’s prize specimen.
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Good morning! Woke at 3:30 am. Went to my office for an hour and got some things done before heading back to bed.
Today’s prize specimen.
Today’s prize specimen.
Good morning! We had a fabulous “Poetry in Dangerous Times mini-retreat facilitated by Demetria Martinez, then, as we started bringing chairs in from the patio I heard sandhill cranes, and, looking up…
October 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Good morning! We had a fabulous “Poetry in Dangerous Times mini-retreat facilitated by Demetria Martinez, then, as we started bringing chairs in from the patio I heard sandhill cranes, and, looking up…
Good morning! Great time yesterday at the rally in Santa Fe. Heading back up there today for a friend’s play. So many great costumes!
October 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Good morning! Great time yesterday at the rally in Santa Fe. Heading back up there today for a friend’s play. So many great costumes!
The best the alleged “paper of record,” The New York Times, could do after seven million Americans turned out in an historic No Kings protest?
October 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The best the alleged “paper of record,” The New York Times, could do after seven million Americans turned out in an historic No Kings protest?
The aliens have invaded! At the Santa Fe rally.
October 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The aliens have invaded! At the Santa Fe rally.
At Santa Fe rally. Huge turnout.
October 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
At Santa Fe rally. Huge turnout.
Good morning and enjoy your coffee group! We had our last outdoor reading of the year last evening with Santa Fe poet Miriam Sagan and Taos poet Catherine Strisik. Delightful and the weather cooperated!
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Good morning and enjoy your coffee group! We had our last outdoor reading of the year last evening with Santa Fe poet Miriam Sagan and Taos poet Catherine Strisik. Delightful and the weather cooperated!
Don’t know where this Banned Books staircase is, but it’s super cool!
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Don’t know where this Banned Books staircase is, but it’s super cool!
Good morning! Oh, I am sorry you had to suffer from incompetence! Cloudy morning here but we did see about twenty balloons on the horizon. Sadly, didn’t find out until later that a couple balloons were launched from Placitas. Here’s one a friend in West Placitas posted:
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Good morning! Oh, I am sorry you had to suffer from incompetence! Cloudy morning here but we did see about twenty balloons on the horizon. Sadly, didn’t find out until later that a couple balloons were launched from Placitas. Here’s one a friend in West Placitas posted:
He has always been the kiss of death.
October 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
He has always been the kiss of death.
Happy Friday! My Zoom reading was fun, and well attended, last night. Got another canna lily blossom starting.
August 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Happy Friday! My Zoom reading was fun, and well attended, last night. Got another canna lily blossom starting.
Good morning. Plumbers here again. Got some weeding done this morning. Third night of heavy rains. Do you like our new golf course? It was desert brown a month ago.
August 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Good morning. Plumbers here again. Got some weeding done this morning. Third night of heavy rains. Do you like our new golf course? It was desert brown a month ago.
If not for Andy’s byline, I just might believe it.
August 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If not for Andy’s byline, I just might believe it.
Good morning, and hurrah for tacos! Had a lot of sound and fury last evening, but not a drop of rain. Typical. Maybe we’ll get luckier today. Nice to see a canna lily blooming in the garden.
August 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Good morning, and hurrah for tacos! Had a lot of sound and fury last evening, but not a drop of rain. Typical. Maybe we’ll get luckier today. Nice to see a canna lily blooming in the garden.
Happy Saturday! Flying back to ABQ. Went to museums at Balboa Park yesterday. Here’s the Botanical Building made of redwood slats.
August 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Happy Saturday! Flying back to ABQ. Went to museums at Balboa Park yesterday. Here’s the Botanical Building made of redwood slats.