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Patrick Roche
@patrickrochepoetry.bsky.social
Award-winning poet featured on lots of websites and my mom's fridge. He/him. 🍉blm PatrickRochePoetry.com
New poem in the latest issue of @thimblelitmag.bsky.social ✨🙌
Inspired by the origin of Aphrodite being born from sea foam and waves.

Loosely structured as a Petrarchan sonnet and tried to mirror the subject matter by having the line length increase gradually (expanding&contracting along the way)
March 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reposted by Patrick Roche
"Hands, a god lifting me to a mountain, casting me 
in bronze to be a boy until bled dry. To be a stain
of nectar on a chin. To be a cup overflowing:
a cold, metal well from which to drink."

- @patrickrochepoetry.bsky.social

voicemailpoems.org/2025/02/10/g...
February 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New poem in Voicemail Poems Winter 2025 issue!

Part of a larger collection I’m working on about Olympian figures — queering them, placing them in contemporary context, etc.

Ganymede is a lad abducted by an eagle (Zeus in disguise or at his command) to be cupbearer to the gods & given eternal youth
February 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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February 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New plan! Tomorrow afternoon: double the poets, double the fun!
January 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
On the one hand, booo Meta!
But on the other hand, a girl’s gotta promote

I’ll be live on Button Poetry’s Facebook page tomorrow at 8 PM eastern/7:00 PM central to read a bunch of poems and talk about my upcoming virtual workshop series!
January 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Forget a Spotify wrapped: show me your top 5 replayed Kellyoke covers, then we can talk
December 4, 2024 at 11:10 PM