Daniel Shank Cruz
@shankcruz.bsky.social
🇵🇷 genderqueer bisexual Mennonite writer, they/multitudes. #Mets #LGM #haiku danielshankcruz.com
I have two poems in the new issue of Kingfisher, which has a lovely cover.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I have two poems in the new issue of Kingfisher, which has a lovely cover.
How is Mattingly on the ballot and Keith Hernandez isn't. (Unless Hernandez is considered pre-1980--he could go either way--but he wasn't on that ballot last year.)
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
How is Mattingly on the ballot and Keith Hernandez isn't. (Unless Hernandez is considered pre-1980--he could go either way--but he wasn't on that ballot last year.)
Re: first basemen, Keith Hernandez (who somehow isn't even on the ballot???) has to get in before Mattingly.
November 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Re: first basemen, Keith Hernandez (who somehow isn't even on the ballot???) has to get in before Mattingly.
How the hell is Don Mattingly on the Contemporary Baseball Era Hall of Fame ballot and Keith Hernandez is not? Hernandez was clearly the better player. An 18 WAR difference, plus Hernandez got the most important hit in game 7 of the World Series TWICE! www.mlb.com/news/contemp... #LGM #LFGM #MetsSky
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
How the hell is Don Mattingly on the Contemporary Baseball Era Hall of Fame ballot and Keith Hernandez is not? Hernandez was clearly the better player. An 18 WAR difference, plus Hernandez got the most important hit in game 7 of the World Series TWICE! www.mlb.com/news/contemp... #LGM #LFGM #MetsSky
I have a poem in the new issue of Modern Haiku!
October 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I have a poem in the new issue of Modern Haiku!
Arya loves to smoosh her head up against Bella’s butt 😻
October 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Arya loves to smoosh her head up against Bella’s butt 😻
Saturday breakfast 🫐🥧🍨☕️
September 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Saturday breakfast 🫐🥧🍨☕️
I just acquired this copy of the first edition of Kenneth Yasuda’s A Pepper-Pod, a classic early text of English-language #haiku, and I have immediately fallen in love with it as an object, wondering about all of the people who have read it before me. It comes from a hospital in Framingham, MA.
August 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I just acquired this copy of the first edition of Kenneth Yasuda’s A Pepper-Pod, a classic early text of English-language #haiku, and I have immediately fallen in love with it as an object, wondering about all of the people who have read it before me. It comes from a hospital in Framingham, MA.
July 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I just now got a chance to unbox the David Wright bobblehead that I got at Sunday’s Mets game and… it has three arms! The right arms have magnets in them so you can choose to have him holding his two Gold Gloves (to go with his two Silver Sluggers) or a baseball.
July 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I just now got a chance to unbox the David Wright bobblehead that I got at Sunday’s Mets game and… it has three arms! The right arms have magnets in them so you can choose to have him holding his two Gold Gloves (to go with his two Silver Sluggers) or a baseball.
Forty years ago today my father took me to my first Mets game. They beat Atlanta 16-4 and I’ve been a fan ever since! I’m happy to be able to celebrate the anniversary at the ballpark with family and friends 💙🧡💙🧡
July 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Forty years ago today my father took me to my first Mets game. They beat Atlanta 16-4 and I’ve been a fan ever since! I’m happy to be able to celebrate the anniversary at the ballpark with family and friends 💙🧡💙🧡
I got my contributor’s copy of this monumental (in all senses of the word) anthology of Mennonite literary criticism from 1869-present in the mail today. It’s 700 pages, only 400 less than the Martyrs Mirror!😆 But for real, it’s a breathtaking piece of scholarly labor that I’m proud to be a part of.
July 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I got my contributor’s copy of this monumental (in all senses of the word) anthology of Mennonite literary criticism from 1869-present in the mail today. It’s 700 pages, only 400 less than the Martyrs Mirror!😆 But for real, it’s a breathtaking piece of scholarly labor that I’m proud to be a part of.
Some exciting news: my book a good possible year for an apocalypse: poems has just been published by Red Moon Press! You can buy it for the low, low price of $20 U.S. at this link (redmoonpress.com/.../a-good-p...) or directly from me if you’d like a signed copy—just send me a DM.
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Some exciting news: my book a good possible year for an apocalypse: poems has just been published by Red Moon Press! You can buy it for the low, low price of $20 U.S. at this link (redmoonpress.com/.../a-good-p...) or directly from me if you’d like a signed copy—just send me a DM.
June 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I bought three packs of 1987 Topps (“the _Real_ one”) yesterday, the first set I began collecting as a kid. I got some fun cards! Back then I assumed managers’ cards must be worth a lot because managers were the ones in charge 😆 And I thought the “Future Stars” graphic was so cool. #CardSky ⚾️
May 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I bought three packs of 1987 Topps (“the _Real_ one”) yesterday, the first set I began collecting as a kid. I got some fun cards! Back then I assumed managers’ cards must be worth a lot because managers were the ones in charge 😆 And I thought the “Future Stars” graphic was so cool. #CardSky ⚾️
My parents cleaned out their basement to have a yard sale this weekend and found some of my childhood t-shirts, three of which still fit because (old person voice) in the early ‘90s we wore our clothes several sizes too big. R.I.P. to the World League of American Football. Let’s go, Mets! #MetsSky
May 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My parents cleaned out their basement to have a yard sale this weekend and found some of my childhood t-shirts, three of which still fit because (old person voice) in the early ‘90s we wore our clothes several sizes too big. R.I.P. to the World League of American Football. Let’s go, Mets! #MetsSky
It’s always striking when two of my fountain pens run out of ink on the same day. Today it was my Esterbrook Estie Botanical Garden and my Hong Dian N23 🖋️
April 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It’s always striking when two of my fountain pens run out of ink on the same day. Today it was my Esterbrook Estie Botanical Garden and my Hong Dian N23 🖋️
April 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM