Michele McDannold
@oneldammit.bsky.social
Poet/Publisher at Roadside Press
happy humpday! here's a killer poem from Misti Rainwater-Lites theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
A Witch’s Promise To My Christian Cousin by Misti Rainwater-Lites - The Literary Underground
A Witch’s Promise To My Christian Cousin you’ve inherited some money & married well two or three times a true Capricorn you have scrambled your way to the top of the garbage heap you tell anyone who w...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
happy humpday! here's a killer poem from Misti Rainwater-Lites theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
happy gotdamn tuesday! we have a special report edition of THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER by Karl Koweski. get into it theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER: Holy Toledo (pt 1 of 3) by Karl Koweski - The Literary Underground
Holy Toledo (pt 1 of 3) I wanted to drive up the eleven hours to Toledo, Ohio to attend the Underground Lit Fest, a two-day poetic odyssey, ten of those minutes earmarked for me and my shit. It had be...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
happy gotdamn tuesday! we have a special report edition of THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER by Karl Koweski. get into it theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
Happy Fuck-It Friday!!! check out this kick-ass poem from Al Ortolani theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
Digging Ditches by Al Ortolani - The Literary Underground
Digging Ditches My father found me a job digging foundations at the low-income housing development north of town. He knew the boss. In fact, he knew everyone who commanded a platoon of shovels and pic...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Happy Fuck-It Friday!!! check out this kick-ass poem from Al Ortolani theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
happy pre-friday! today we have "From Womb to Word: The Spellwork of Briana Muñoz’s MATRIARCHY," a review by Richard Modiano theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
From Womb to Word: The Spellwork of Briana Muñoz’s Matriarchy, a review by Richard Modiano - The Literary Underground
From Womb to Word: The Spellwork of Briana Muñoz’s Matriarchy Briana Muñoz’s Matriarchy (El Martillo Press) is a collection that insists on the sacredness of creation—in every sense of the word. Her p...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
happy pre-friday! today we have "From Womb to Word: The Spellwork of Briana Muñoz’s MATRIARCHY," a review by Richard Modiano theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
happy humpday! today, we're all about the release of BRIAN FUGETT: POEMS theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry #booksky #art
Citizens for Decent Literature Press Announces the Posthumous Release of Brian Fugett: Poems - The Literary Underground
Citizens for Decent Literature Press Announces the Posthumous Release of Brian Fugett: Poems — Honoring a Defiant and Unforgettable Voice in Indie Lit Citizens for Decent Literature Press, a project o...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
happy humpday! today, we're all about the release of BRIAN FUGETT: POEMS theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry #booksky #art
happy motherfuckin tuesday! we love a tuesday around here because we get the latest from THE POLISH HAMMER aka Karl Koweski theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER: Halloween 365 by Karl Koweski - The Literary Underground
Halloween 365, or Tom Atkins Always Be Trying to Sip on my Kool-Aid I can’t believe Halloween has already passed by. The tail end of Autumn, my favorite time of year is racing away. Of course, I beli...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
happy motherfuckin tuesday! we love a tuesday around here because we get the latest from THE POLISH HAMMER aka Karl Koweski theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
Underground Lit Fest Brings National Poets to Toledo – November 7 & 8, 2025 theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry #lit #toledo #ohio #fest #undergroundlitfest
Underground Lit Fest Toledo 2025 - The Literary Underground
Underground Lit Fest Brings National Poets to Toledo – November 7 & 8, 2025 Toledo, OH – On November 7 and 8, Toledo will host the Underground Lit Fest, a two-day celebration of independent literature...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Underground Lit Fest Brings National Poets to Toledo – November 7 & 8, 2025 theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry #lit #toledo #ohio #fest #undergroundlitfest
Happy Monday! it's a fresh new poem by Alan Catlin theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
Shopping by Alan Catlin - The Literary Underground
Shopping She looked at him with her best bedroom eyes Hung on his every word as he spoke too long and too loud about anything that came into his head Slid forward in her seat as he offered her a drink...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Happy Monday! it's a fresh new poem by Alan Catlin theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
mornin, Sunday! here's a short story from Steven Meloan for ya theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
Ozzy by Steven Meloan - The Literary Underground
Ozzy “ETA…55 minutes. I repeat, E-T-A...55 minutes!” My son’s teen rock band had started out on the Beatles, but then got into heavier and darker groups—Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Metallica, Black Sabbath...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
mornin, Sunday! here's a short story from Steven Meloan for ya theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
Reserve your signed copy of NOWHERE TO GO BUT EVERYWHERE: TRAVEL POEMS by Milenko 'Miles' Budimir at www.magicaljeep.com/product/ever... #poetry #booksky
November 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Reserve your signed copy of NOWHERE TO GO BUT EVERYWHERE: TRAVEL POEMS by Milenko 'Miles' Budimir at www.magicaljeep.com/product/ever... #poetry #booksky
Happy Halloween on a Fuck-It Friday!?! here's a most excellent poem by the one & only Misti Rainwater-Lites theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
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October 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Happy Halloween on a Fuck-It Friday!?! here's a most excellent poem by the one & only Misti Rainwater-Lites theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
Underground Lit Fest Toledo! theliteraryunderground.org/litfest/
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Underground Lit Fest Toledo! theliteraryunderground.org/litfest/
happy thursday! here's a new one from Greg Clary theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
Giving Water to a Drowning Man by Greg Clary - The Literary Underground
Giving Water to a Drowning Man Lord, when will I feel less like drowning? I grew up listening to country music, savoring the pain songs about tragic romance. Words that pulled me toward a rawer truth,...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
happy thursday! here's a new one from Greg Clary theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
happy humpday! here's a fresh new poem from Charles Rammelkamp theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
Meat Is Murder by Charles Rammelkamp - The Literary Underground
Meat Is Murder On a random radio station, driving through another state, the talkshow host throws out a spurious statistic, citing the high percentage of “young people” (she doesn’t give an age range)...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
happy humpday! here's a fresh new poem from Charles Rammelkamp theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
happy mothereffin tuesday! it's another installment from the one and only POLISH HAMMER theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10...
THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER: Hopping Over the Cracks in Reality by Karl Koweski - The Literary Underground
Hopping Over the Cracks in Reality Cracker had taken to avoiding me at work, and that was fine. If he wanted to eat his bologna and cheese sammiches in the confines of his shitty Kia during lunch brea...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
happy mothereffin tuesday! it's another installment from the one and only POLISH HAMMER theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10...
happy monday, folks. here's a lil poem from our favorite barman Alan Catlin theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
Call of the Wild by Alan Catlin - The Literary Underground
Call of the Wild They were very much into a Call of the Wild frame of mind Thought what they needed was another drug that would take them all the way into an abyss What they didn't Know was that they ...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
happy monday, folks. here's a lil poem from our favorite barman Alan Catlin theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
Happy Sunday! spend a little time with this new poem by Karen J. Weyant theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
The Waitress Cleans the Diner’s Coffee Pots by Karen J. Weyant - The Literary Underground
The Waitress Cleans the Diner’s Coffee Pots and in her rush, spills coffee grounds all over the counter. Sticky, wet mounds stain her dishcloth, remind her of an uncle who chewed tobacco, a small wad ...
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October 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Happy Sunday! spend a little time with this new poem by Karen J. Weyant theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
October 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
happy thursday! a nice lil short story for ya by Paul Luikart theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #shortfiction
A Few Quick Things by Paul Luikart - The Literary Underground
A Few Quick Things I used to love this man, a local old guy with some talent for ventriloquism. Mr. Bobby, and the dummy was called Bartolo. They played birthday parties, school assemblies, that kind ...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
happy thursday! a nice lil short story for ya by Paul Luikart theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #shortfiction
happy humpday! here's a new lil poem by Jonathan Hayes theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
Miscellaneous by Jonathan Hayes - The Literary Underground
Miscellaneous I like the smell of vinegar, gasoline, clove cigarettes, gunpowder, Listerine, shoe polish, my own farts and armpit sweat, citrus, and let’s not forget the pool’s chlorine. Treading wate...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
happy humpday! here's a new lil poem by Jonathan Hayes theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
Happy Tuesday! the saga continues this week at THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER: A Polack Amok in Bigfoot Country by Karl Koweski theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10...
THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER: A Polack Amok in Bigfoot Country by Karl Koweski - The Literary Underground
A Polack Amok in Bigfoot Country Cracker McCracken’s latest cryptid video featuring one very disconcerted Polack topped out at twenty-three views. The muted response from the Bigfoot enthusiast commun...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Happy Tuesday! the saga continues this week at THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER: A Polack Amok in Bigfoot Country by Karl Koweski theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10...
happy monday! here's a fresh new poem by Darren C. Demaree theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
All All #22 by Darren C. Demaree - The Literary Underground
All All #22 A foam rises. A foam is buried. The serious drama comes when mouths choose a phantom tongue. A lamp can’t be witness if the windows are blacked out. A revolution can’t wait for you. Are yo...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
happy monday! here's a fresh new poem by Darren C. Demaree theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
happy sunday! here's a new one from Ken Poyner theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10...
Calming Experience by Ken Poyner - The Literary Underground
Calming Experience Today all the girls are Molly, all the boys are Ted. Forget yesterday’s names. They no longer apply. Everyone write your own name tag as legibly as you are able. The act of writing ...
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October 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
happy sunday! here's a new one from Ken Poyner theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10...
happy saturday! James Babbs on making a good poem theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
Dead Possum by James Babbs - The Literary Underground
Dead Possum last night on the road in front of my house someone ran over a possum and now the body lies out there in the middle of the road with blood all around it this possum isn’t pretending to be ...
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October 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
happy saturday! James Babbs on making a good poem theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10... #poetry
Congrats to the nominees!
October 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Congrats to the nominees!