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$teven D. $chroeder 💰
@stevendschroeder.bsky.social
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Author of three books, most recently Wikipedia Apocalyptica. Edit $ (https://bsky.app/profile/poetrycurrency.bsky.social).
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I have multiple friends whose kids call me "Uncle Steve" even though we're not related AT ALL! I demand an investigation!
New York Post headline acting aghast that Mamdani would call his older cousin his aunt.
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Lovely new South Dakota Review with three of my poems.
South Dakota Review cover "Townsfolk mutter to one another" poem by Steven D. Schroeder
October 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuu
New York Yankees hold moment of silence for conservative activist Charlie Kirk after his death
September 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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I know quite a lot of music and am dedicated to discovering more, but reading Stereogum headlines is still an exercise in WTF hilarity.
FearDorian and osquinn Announces New Album Before You Press Play: Hear The Clairo-Sampling “bags” Guitar Announce New Album We’re Headed To The Lake: Hear “Pizza For Everyone” villagerrr – “Ride Or Die” (Feat. feeble little horse’s Lydia Slocum) The Belair Lip Bombs Announce New Album Again: Hear “Hey You”
August 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Best Zionist American Poetry
Stacy Harwood-Lehman of Best American Poetry spreads right-wing disinformation about Mahmoud Khalil
March 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Me to a Democratic Party that can't even be bothered to resist.
"Then what the fuck do I need you for?" from Get Shorty
March 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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The ease with which these cowards capitulate to evil is repulsive and unsurprising.
Chuck Schumer capitulating to Republicans
March 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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One of my weird little fantasy/fairytale/fable prose poems got nominated for Best of the Net by Yalobusha Review!

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Yalobusha Review nominations for Best of the Net, including my poem "This miniature city goes on its own"
January 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Maybe this? I dunno.
Official Statement Video of the incident, edited, almost obeyed our order, almost made our story fit. A citizen— no, criminal—was pacified by multiple blunt instruments of the state. Of course by mistake in our hasty press release, justice became just trust us. The system remained utmost. The sole witness investigators interrogated— no, interviewed—didn’t see what she saw or say what she said she said. Any direct eye contact caused us to lose the count of who got lost. To stand up was obstruction. To back away, a credible threat. The subject— no, suspect—didn’t look right while jaywalking, then ran for what he must have believed was safety, so we saved him from himself. When we searched his person afterward, each pocket hid a brick. In his hands, toy resembled gun or perhaps the other way around. In our hands, his life amounted to vacant housing taped off, his blood on blacktop too dark to identify. In our minds, the boy was not boy but man and that man grew into monster and that monster outnumbered us less than a second before we remembered our gun was more than one too. The city was like that when we found it—no, founded it— no, foundered it. Once we met the boy, he was already dead though his body didn’t know yet.
November 23, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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I've been thinking about this poem from my most recent book.

Bootlicking is such an American pastime.
Yes Men The boss innovated the winning yes one of us mentioned yesterday, displayed our original yes in case we misremembered our place, insisted yes precede us at meetings, expected nothing less than yes plus half a pumpkin muffin on his desk before he asked. Yes didn’t protest lottery ticket Christmas bonuses. Yes lacked the skill to assess its lack of skills. Our aspiration to be boss necessitated we yes mandatory morale-boosting posters of sharks and astronauts, offices of increasing senselessness, eyeglass-like devices to microanalyze our voice and posture, access control systems based on genetic tests. Yes didn’t resist being piled high to bypass all walls. Yes expanded to fill time available. In lawsuits, the boss suggested that we testify yes was safe if ingested, was fine containing greater than trace amounts of asbestos and lead, was normal despite paralysis in lab mice, made sense classified as a recyclable instead of medical waste. Yes didn’t question messaging new history into existence. Yes adjusted its answers as it guessed the experiment’s goal. The boss passed on the title of boss to the boss, so yes reassessed its use for us, rightsized the workforce right in our faces, transitioned us into a basketball trashcan, promoted our emasculating nicknames with a press release. Yes was not the boss, yet yes was also not not the boss. At last, yes advanced to its level of incompetence.
November 15, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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Bernie Sanders meme: I am once again asking professors not to have undergrads send poems to journals for class
May 15, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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American media tie themselves in linguistic knots to avoid saying "Israelis killed a 3-year-old" in the same way they do with American cops.
CNN story about Israelis killing a 3-year-old that scrupulously avoids phrasing it that way. New York Times story about police shooting protesters that scrupulously avoids phrasing it that way.
January 7, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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I love how many atmospheric black metal album covers are basically folk album covers with crazy-ass font choices.
Black metal album cover: Eldamar, The Force of the Ancient Land Black metal album cover: Fathomage, Autumn's Dawn, Winter's Darkness Black metal album cover: Yfel, Beneath the Mountain's Vigil
December 23, 2023 at 5:51 PM
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Can you even imagine being this much of a sweaty tryhard loser?
Elon Musk posting a meme of himself pretending people are mad at him because he's speaking truth to power.
December 8, 2023 at 1:51 AM
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"Of Late" by George Starbuck

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"Of Late" by George Starbuck
November 26, 2023 at 7:51 AM
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Congratulations on one of the dumbest things anyone has ever said, and also on that time you helped cover up sexual abuse at Ohio State.
Twitter post by Jim Jordan: No American should accost another for their beliefs.
October 19, 2023 at 2:50 AM
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October 13, 2023 at 6:39 PM
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Modified the dealership sticker into a helpful information label so people will know what I'm driving.
A car with a rear CARMAX sticker modified to say CAR
October 2, 2023 at 4:47 PM
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Sicario (2015)
Many dirt lanes of vehicles desperately trying to escape Burning Man
September 5, 2023 at 3:29 AM
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The reason I don't earn a living making art is because the best thing about art in a late capitalist hellscape is it doesn't have to be commerce. I'm a very good writer and make a living quite comfortably with that skill.
Screenshot of tweet saying "Have you considered that the reason you can't earn a living making art isn't because you live in a "late capitalist hellscape," but is rather because you have no discernible talent and have chosen to blame capitalism as a coping mechanism?"
August 9, 2023 at 3:35 AM
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No offense to the poets involved, but if a journal with zero web presence and zero social presence pops up with an issue #1 contributor list like this, proceed with extreme skepticism about how they selected those poems.
Issue #1 contributor list for Revel: A Journal of Poetry
August 4, 2023 at 4:57 AM
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Please understand that producing any poetry of value with AI requires a tremendous amount of careful work.
ChatGPT produces a terrible poem in response to a prompt and can't even correctly say how many lines it has.
August 2, 2023 at 3:28 AM
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Just so we're clear, these three "controversial" moments are clearly 3-0 in favor of Sinead. RIP. Fuck Andrew Dice Clay, Frank Sinatra, and the Catholic Church coverup.
CNN account of Sinead O'Connor "controversial" incidents
July 27, 2023 at 6:08 AM
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This was 10 years ago. Damn, it was fun!
Poster advertising a reading by Adrian Matejka and Steven D. Schroeder.
July 20, 2023 at 7:28 PM
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Show me pictures on your phone that have your energy, not selfies.
Car console that looks like a screaming robot Orange cat, mid-meow A glass of whiskey with a computer screen showing the game Hitman Bookshelves full of roleplaying games, Lord of the Rings books, and other nerd items
July 10, 2023 at 9:45 PM