Worked out a new cover with my son Noah Michael Smock for ‘naked in dog years’ (April 2024)naked in dog years, 55 pagesApril 2024can be purchased via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com)or Venm…

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Dear Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, I wrote so many letters to Ethan Hawke. I was overweight with doom. My imagery was photographed fasting. A thorn and a spear dreamt of being on the same side of god. I ha…

Now Flourish Northern Cardinalselected poems 2005-2025, Darren C DemareeSmall Harbor Publishing, 2025Addiction is the breadcrumb that the body follows to wine. I don’t know what this turns into. Da…

Eight surreal and absurd poems from Barton Smock, complete with a mini-essay on the genre and form.

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I Have Brought You A Severed HandGhayath AlmadhounAction Books, 2025Ghayath Almadhoun’s I Have Brought You A Severed Hand, as woundedly clocked in translation by Catherine Cobham, changes the prese…