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Robbie Gamble
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Writer, editor, bread baker, cider maker, retired nurse practitioner.
Second Coming No. 221 — August 28, 2025
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Second Coming No. 221 — August 28, 2025
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime
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August 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My poem "Liminal" is out in Right Hand Pointing: www.issues.righthandpointing.net/160
July 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
So pleased to have my poem "Habeas Corpus" out as today's installment of the Second Coming project, a "poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime." Thank you to Michael Brodeur for sustaining this project:
Second Coming No. 136 — June 4, 2025
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime Robbie GambleHabeas Corpus You should have the body. She was asleepin bed wh…
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June 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I have a new poem up at Psaltery & Lyre. Many thanks to Millie Tullis & team:
Spectrum
by Robbie Gamble
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May 20, 2025 at 4:01 AM
May 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
April is the clueless month.
April 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Emmett makes his poetry debut in “Chloe Goes to College,” appearing in the Pet Writing Contest issue of Boudin! Many thanks to the editors of The McNeese Review: www.mcneese.edu/thereview/20...
March 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
March 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I have a poem up today at ONE ART. Many thanks to Mark Danowsky and Luisa Schnaithmannn:
Aubade to Self by Robbie Gamble
Aubade to Self morning’s gray filaments pry the curtains as I lie still floating a prayer for a scant of endurance, compassion, generosity— selfishly, of course but for all of us because despair is…
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March 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
March 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
One of the five things I did this past week was to make note of your exploding rocket.
March 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I have a poem, "Perseids," up in the "Midnight" issue of Halfway Down the Stairs. Many thanks to Jeannie E. Roberts and Philip Watts Brown for gathering this beautiful new issue:
Perseids, by Robbie Gamble
You drag the dogs outfor a late-night pee throughthe carport, past compost bins festering with the self-same stardustthat flecks the dark vault abovethe drive. Quarter-moon scuds into a fringe of o…
halfwaydownthestairs.net
March 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Rise Up Review is a clarion voice in these turbulent times, and I'm honored to have my poem "Red-Eye" included in the just-released Winter 2025 issue. Kudos to Sonia Greenfield and team for reminding us that "resistance is fertile."

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February 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The Indianapolis Review has long been a dream journal of mine, and I'm thrilled to bits to have a poem in the Winter 2025 issue! Thank you, Natalie Solmer, for putting this together in these darkening times, when we need poetry more than ever to stay sane and connected:
After the Prado
A day spent wandering galleriesconnecting the dots across an arrayof Western Art’s greatest hits, and allI can think of now is a patch of triptychby Hieronymus Bosch, not the centralscene, where Ma…
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February 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
THIS is the Gulf of America:
February 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
DOGEbags!
February 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM