Scott LaMascus
scottlamascus.bsky.social
Scott LaMascus
@scottlamascus.bsky.social
Writer, producer, public-humanities advocate. Debut poetry collection forthcoming from Fernwood in 2025. Awarded 2024 Bill Holm Prize for poems about Oklahoma.
Pinned
We are excited to share the cover of my new chapbook - available at bottlecap.press/products/edited.
Grateful to Rare Revolution magazine for boosting my ALS Awareness project! Join in by purchasing my book with proceeds helping expand access to neurology services. www.bottlecap.press/products/edited
May 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Q: Average time of a feature film?
A: About 90 minutes.
In the world of ALS, every 90 minutes on average one person is diagnosed and one dies. Help me raise funds for Meinders Neurology Institute and Mercy. Purchase my book in May. Proceeds go to Meinders. www.bottlecap.press/products/edited.
May 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
www.facebook.com/FollowMercy/... - please help us during ALS Awareness Month. But The Edited Tongue at www.bottlecap.press/products/edited. Proceeds go to Mercy and Meinders to decrease wait times and increase services for ALS patients and their families.
Scott LaMascus’s father was a man of quiet faith, hard work and steady resolve. For most of his 85 years, he carried himself with strength and... | By Mercy | Facebook
Scott LaMascus’s father was a man of quiet faith, hard work and steady resolve. For most of his 85 years, he carried himself with strength and...
www.facebook.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
give.mercyhealthfoundation.net/campaign/678...

I'm grateful to be using The Edited Tongue and poetry to support expansion of services at Mercy/Meinders, proudly and profoundly non-profit healthcare. Help us by purchasing your copy -- ebook available for sales outside the U.S. and Canada.
Donate to OKL - Neuroscience Institute Campaign
Support our cause by donating to OKC Herman Meinders Neuroscience Institute Campaign.
give.mercyhealthfoundation.net
May 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Help find 20 buyers for my chapbook, The Edited Tongue: A Family's Year with ALS. Proceeds in May go to support the Meinders. Here's a link: give.mercyhealthfoundation.net/campaign/678...

Or you can go to: bottlecap.press/products/edited. Wholesale available. E-book for outside U.S. and Canada.
May 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We are excited to share the cover of my new chapbook - available at bottlecap.press/products/edited.
February 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Submit! Lunch ticket.org.
February 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
What a story -- a capricious and hypocritical monarch, a culture of religious violence, and spy system policing matters of conscience. Read it and come join the community of writers with Rilla, March 29! It's free with registration and workshop seats are filling now. Register at: www.oc.edu/askew
January 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Gus-Gus.
January 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Free registration and meal while spaces last -- www.oc.edu/askew

Published authors. Generative workshops in genres. Open-mic. Come write with us!

Thank you, McBride Center for Public Humanities, OC, Oklahoma Humanities, alumni donors, and NEH!
January 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Behind The Rain (11) is out! Thanks to the editors and congratulations to the contributors. Hope you enjoy my little poem as I enjoyed yours.

Direct link to episode: www.buzzsprout.com/1845017/epis...
BTR web page: okiebookcast.com/behindtherain
January 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
March 29. Mcbride Writers Festival with Rilla Askew, Artist in Residence. Watch for free registration link Thursday. Spaces limited.
January 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Oklahoma's great humorist demonstrated the power of language. This was displayed the last time I visited Will Rogers's home, a touchstone site for me each time I traveled to LA for Antioch's MFA, and to see my many SoCal friends and family. It's ashes now, too. Our hearts break for you, Angelenos.
January 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM