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Patrick Roche @patrickrochepoetry.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

My uncle could use some support! He was diagnosed with end stage renal failure in 2024, has been managing dialysis & treatment, and is on the kidney transplant list, but expenses and bills have been adding up. Please consider donating and sharing! 💚 gofund.me/eb0ec2bc4

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Donate to Support Tim Nielsen's Fight Against Kidney Failure, organized by Joe Viola

Help Support Tim Nielsen and his fight against End Stage Renal Failu… Joe Viola needs your support for Support Tim Nielsen's Fight Against Kidney Failure

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Patrick Roche @patrickrochepoetry.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

New poem in the latest issue of @thimblelitmag.bsky.social ✨🙌 Inspired by the origin of Aphrodite being born from sea foam and waves. Loosely structured as a Petrarchan sonnet and tried to mirror the subject matter by having the line length increase gradually (expanding&contracting along the way)

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Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

"Hands, a god lifting me to a mountain, casting me in bronze to be a boy until bled dry. To be a stain of nectar on a chin. To be a cup overflowing: a cold, metal well from which to drink." - @patrickrochepoetry.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2025/02/10/g...

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Patrick Roche @patrickrochepoetry.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New poem in Voicemail Poems Winter 2025 issue! Part of a larger collection I’m working on about Olympian figures — queering them, placing them in contemporary context, etc. Ganymede is a lad abducted by an eagle (Zeus in disguise or at his command) to be cupbearer to the gods & given eternal youth

Voicemail Poems winter 2025 cover
Text placed against a wintry backdrop with snow

“Ganymede” by Patrick Roche as it appears in Voicemail Poems winter 2025 issue

Poem text:

Eagle-winged cock on my phone. I joined
the apps not earlier than I was allowed to,
but earlier than I should have. A man, twice
of me – in age, in size, in audacity – stretches

a talon through the screen: Sweet boy.
Soft skin. Baby calf. Milk trough. Can I
touch? Can I smell? Can I taste? Are you
really only 100 lbs? That’s so hot.

Hellenic ideal: men whose beards could scrape
the wool from a lamb’s back, wanting to plaster
me upon the hard bed-frame scene circling
an urn. Terra cotta raptor of the Father-God.

Hands, a fire on my thigh on the subway. Hands,
cracking open the hide on the small of my back
in the gay bar. Hands, flying from the messages.
Hands, twine around the waist, across the mouth.

Hands, a god lifting me to a mountain, casting me
in bronze to be a boy until bled dry. To be a stain
of nectar on a chin. To be a cup overflowing:
a cold, metal well from which to drink.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting depicting Ganymede being abducted by the eagle

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Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

❄️ our winter issue is up! ❄️ ft. @ppcocain.bsky.social, @dsrandol.bsky.social, @writtenbyallison.bsky.social, & more! voicemailpoems.org/2025/02/10/w...

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Patrick Roche @patrickrochepoetry.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

New plan! Tomorrow afternoon: double the poets, double the fun!

Promotional image with the following info:
Button Poetry Presents
Patrick Roche & Rachel Wiley
Thursday January 30, 2025
3:00 PM Eastern Time / 2:00 PM Central Time
Facebook Live Stream

The flyer includes images of Patrick Roche and Rachel Wiley, with their respective books shown above them:
A Socially Acceptable Breakdown above Roche
Revenge Body above Wiley

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Patrick Roche @patrickrochepoetry.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

On the one hand, booo Meta! But on the other hand, a girl’s gotta promote I’ll be live on Button Poetry’s Facebook page tomorrow at 8 PM eastern/7:00 PM central to read a bunch of poems and talk about my upcoming virtual workshop series!

An image from Button Poetry promoting Patrick Roche Livestream
Tuesday
7:00pm CT
Jan 28
Tune in on FB

Patrick is seated on a wooden crate. He has paper wings on his back and is looking upward. There is also an image of Patrick’s book, A Socially Acceptable Breakdown

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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Patrick Roche @patrickrochepoetry.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Forget a Spotify wrapped: show me your top 5 replayed Kellyoke covers, then we can talk

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