Tom Barlow
@tombarlow.bsky.social
Author of five novels, a hundred short stories, and a thousand poems. Man, are my fingers tired!
I'm pleased today that poem "The Battle of the Bulge" is a feature on One Art Poetry. oneartpoetry.com/2025/08/28/b...
Battle of the Bulge by Tom Barlow
Battle of the Bulge 1960. I’m 15 watching Dad size up the used car dealer, not a stalwart man but he does wear a vest, smokes Luckies like my old man. We walk his lot; he carries a chamois to buff …
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August 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I'm pleased today that poem "The Battle of the Bulge" is a feature on One Art Poetry. oneartpoetry.com/2025/08/28/b...
In other counties an attempt to thwart democracy on behalf of a would-be tyrant has led to a military coup.
June 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
In other counties an attempt to thwart democracy on behalf of a would-be tyrant has led to a military coup.
My poem "Drawing Class" appears today on The Poetry Lighthouse. Lacking any fine arts talent I had to use my words. www.thepoetrylighthouse.com/poems/drawin...
Drawing Class — The Poetry Lighthouse
The teacher shared a print of the primitive wall paintings from the Cave of Lascaux and I snapped my pencil in half, packed up my supplies, and slipped out the back door. Tru...
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June 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
My poem "Drawing Class" appears today on The Poetry Lighthouse. Lacking any fine arts talent I had to use my words. www.thepoetrylighthouse.com/poems/drawin...
Thanks so much to the editors of The Poetry Lighthouse for running my poet "Say What?" today. Perhaps it will bring you a chuckle.
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Say What? — The Poetry Lighthouse
After thirty years of marriage, my wife has taken to speaking more and more softly. "Your fly is open," she whispered at the breakfast table just this morning. I was listening th...
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June 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Thanks so much to the editors of The Poetry Lighthouse for running my poet "Say What?" today. Perhaps it will bring you a chuckle.
www.thepoetrylighthouse.com/poems/say-what
www.thepoetrylighthouse.com/poems/say-what
That Arias at bat with the bases loaded was perhaps the worst at bat with the bases loaded and the game in question that I've ever seen.
May 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
That Arias at bat with the bases loaded was perhaps the worst at bat with the bases loaded and the game in question that I've ever seen.
There are probably a hundred former pros looking for work that are better than Noel. Futile to play him.
May 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
There are probably a hundred former pros looking for work that are better than Noel. Futile to play him.
If Naylor's bat is cheese and Hedges is light years better defensively why not bench Naylor?
April 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
If Naylor's bat is cheese and Hedges is light years better defensively why not bench Naylor?
Happy Haiku Day! And to commemorate it, One Art has posted its 2025 anthology of haiku edited by Katie Dozier, including one of mine and many by poetry friends. oneartpoetry.com/2025/04/17/t...
The ONE ART 2025 Haiku Anthology
The ONE ART 2025 Haiku Anthology A Note from the Editor: While some are most concerned with filling the first page, I’m more daunted by the second iteration of anything. The first sets an expectati…
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April 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Happy Haiku Day! And to commemorate it, One Art has posted its 2025 anthology of haiku edited by Katie Dozier, including one of mine and many by poetry friends. oneartpoetry.com/2025/04/17/t...
Have you ever seen a more brain- dead baserunner than Roccio? Every game he's wandering off base around like a three year old in a toy store. @guardians
April 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Have you ever seen a more brain- dead baserunner than Roccio? Every game he's wandering off base around like a three year old in a toy store. @guardians
My poem "Love Poem" is live today on the Gyroscope Review. You'll get a belly laugh or two from it or I don't know comedy. (I don't claim to know comedy.) Page 9. www.gyroscopereview.com/2025/04/spri...
Spring 2025 Issue – Gyroscope Review
Poets and poetry Readers! Welcome to the 2025 Spring Issue! We have a wide variety of poems in this issue, including a bunch that themed together nicely.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My poem "Love Poem" is live today on the Gyroscope Review. You'll get a belly laugh or two from it or I don't know comedy. (I don't claim to know comedy.) Page 9. www.gyroscopereview.com/2025/04/spri...
I find it silly that the Guardians TV crew wears a tie to broadcast baseball.
March 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I find it silly that the Guardians TV crew wears a tie to broadcast baseball.
Today's writing music: Townes Van Zandt
March 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Today's writing music: Townes Van Zandt
I'm proud to have my poem "Trash Talk" appear in the new issue of Gaia Lit. The whole issue is worth exploration. www.gaialit.org/issue-six-to...
March 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm proud to have my poem "Trash Talk" appear in the new issue of Gaia Lit. The whole issue is worth exploration. www.gaialit.org/issue-six-to...
Check out my noir short story "River of Ash" in the journal Tough. redneck-press.blogspot.com/2025/03/rive...
River of Ash, fiction by Tom Barlow
reprinted from River of Ash M addy slid Ethan's hand off her thigh, painfully aware that Jacob, to whom she had granted groping rights un...
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March 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Check out my noir short story "River of Ash" in the journal Tough. redneck-press.blogspot.com/2025/03/rive...
Today's writing music: Franz Ferdinand
March 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today's writing music: Franz Ferdinand
In which I explore the writer's search for joy. open.substack.com/pub/litmagne...
The Poet's Search for Joy
"Where in this feast can you find your joy?"
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March 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
In which I explore the writer's search for joy. open.substack.com/pub/litmagne...
Today's writing music: "Curious Ruminant," Jethro Tull
March 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Today's writing music: "Curious Ruminant," Jethro Tull
This short poem of mine comes to mind now, in the maelstrom.
America, you've won! Your prizes?
A gun, a baby, and a Bible.
No, you can’t turn it down.
America, you've won! Your prizes?
A gun, a baby, and a Bible.
No, you can’t turn it down.
March 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This short poem of mine comes to mind now, in the maelstrom.
America, you've won! Your prizes?
A gun, a baby, and a Bible.
No, you can’t turn it down.
America, you've won! Your prizes?
A gun, a baby, and a Bible.
No, you can’t turn it down.
Today's writing music: The Dream of the Blue Turtles, by Sting.
March 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Today's writing music: The Dream of the Blue Turtles, by Sting.
February 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
So now we join up on the Russia-North Korea team in the U.N. against the Ukrainians. Every day, a new humiliation. What hold Putin has on his mole must be compelling.
February 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
So now we join up on the Russia-North Korea team in the U.N. against the Ukrainians. Every day, a new humiliation. What hold Putin has on his mole must be compelling.
Today's writing music: Solid Gold, Beastie Boys
February 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Today's writing music: Solid Gold, Beastie Boys
Many thanks to Lillian Liu and the team at The Hyperbolic Review for publishing my poem "Asymptote," my first and only mathematical poem. Asymptote, btw, is defined as "a line that a graph of a function approaches but never actually touches." www.thehyperbolicreview.com/issue-1-poem...
Asymptote | Hyperbolic Review
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February 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Many thanks to Lillian Liu and the team at The Hyperbolic Review for publishing my poem "Asymptote," my first and only mathematical poem. Asymptote, btw, is defined as "a line that a graph of a function approaches but never actually touches." www.thehyperbolicreview.com/issue-1-poem...
Today's writing music: Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
February 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Today's writing music: Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
I'm finding delight in Erin Murphy's Insomnia Chronicles. oneartpoetry.com/2025/02/21/t...
Two Poems by Erin Murphy
Insomnia Chronicles XXIII The night is full of insomniacs googling insomnia. My husband swears that every time he looks at a clock, it’s a palindrome: 9:19 or 12:21. What are the odds, I wonder, an…
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February 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'm finding delight in Erin Murphy's Insomnia Chronicles. oneartpoetry.com/2025/02/21/t...