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Robert Eric Shoemaker

@robeshoe.bsky.social
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Author of Ca’Venezia and other books linktr.ee/reshoemaker

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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Join me and these extraordinary panelists I get the privilege of speaking with at AWP for a conversation about translation, poetry, and the bodddddy! I can promise you I will talk about my Saint Catherine translations project, but I cannot promise how saintly it will sound. Come find out with me!
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
For now, here’s a draft of one poem later in the sequence in which I write to Magnus Hirschfeld.
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“Dear Magnus, You made me beautiful. I can never look in the mirror again, you’ve ruined me!
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
My current favorite definition of metaphor! What’s yours? Thanks @victoriachang.bsky.social #poetry #amwriting
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Mary Ruefle knows me #poetry
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
“Caricatured as typewriter poet” WAS on my 2025 bingo card, and it got called just in time! (Do I win with just a postage stamp or…) Thank you Sam Nassau for copoeting with me at a rockin' wedding! #poetry #typewriter
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Typewriter poetry is best enjoyed with fireplaces #poetry #typewriter #poet
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Review: There’s nothing quite like a Manual Cinema production. They’re the kind of company that, once you’ve seen their work, becomes a point of comparison for other spectacles. I say with no exaggeration that anyone who enjoys theater should consider Manual Cinema’s productions required viewing.
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Ever adjuncted? Read this and fear for your kidneys (if you haven’t had to sell them yet)! First book of August: “this abattoir is a college” by Orchid Tierney #sealeychallenge
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Roses, such deep heat Wall of poems, each frame a friend Time stands still, staring #poetry #haiku #poem #amwriting #letterpress
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The issue of Spoon River in question #indiepublishing #poetry
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Just Buffy floofin out #cat #floof
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
New article with @queerkentucky.bsky.social ! So much fun talking throuples and art
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New article @queerkentucky about Hollyn-Reid's queer Community Filing Cabinet! It was interesting chatting with him about archives and the very down-to-earth processes by which we preserve our memories. Check it out! queerkentucky.com/ashland-arch...
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I had the honor of interviewing author Garth Greenwell for Queer Kentucky! Read the article here: queerkentucky.com/cruising-ken...
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Yesterday was poetry mail day! So excited for new poetry by @alinaetc.bsky.social and @elliephantshoes.bsky.social and the beautiful new issue of Tiny Spoon! Go read all that gorgeous goodness.
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I'm excited to share that I'll be a guest editor for this fall's issue of The Louisville Review! Send in your work for consideration. Submittable opens June 1 and closes June 6, and submissions are capped at 200. Get in there! thelouisvillereviewfleur-de-lispress.submittable.com/submit
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Publications day! Thank you William and @barelysouthreview for publishing "Again," my lil desirous poem, and @srpr_news for including my Hex inside this beautifully-covered volume! It's a lovely day to read a poem :)
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Frostburg State, Some Poems, and April Publications If you'd like to catch up on previous posts, visit "newsletter posts" from the menu on my website and enter the password: poetryismagic! Highlights: Featurette:… reshoemaker.com/2025/04/30/frostbur…
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The Invisible Histories Project made this zine to help us think about simple ways to uplift each other--everything from routine compliments to downloading your data from the cloud is in here. I'm loving this, and I'm linking to the full free PDF in my bio. invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I'm excited to read at Main Street Books in Frostburg next week! Check out the event in my bio/Linktree if you're around the Frostburg area!
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Weightlessness and being. Simplicity cycling, pinwheeling above us, always; the sky....
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We did it! Thank you to everyone who donated to Tupelo Press on my behalf in March; I raised $375 with your help, and I’m so grateful for your support and readership. Thank you Tupelo for the opportunity, and Kirsten Miles for shepherding us! My orchids bloomed in celebration!
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Here are a few of my latest poems intermingled with some poems by other writers throughout the month! Go to the March page to read them in full (screenshots are partial). #poetry #amwriting
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Only $55 until I reach my donation goal for @tupelopress and 30/30 this month! One week left. Please donate if you're able, and remember, if you donate $25 or more I'll write a poem based on a prompt you give me AND send you a postcard. What a deal! Give me the silliest prompt you can come up with!!
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
it followed with swarm in her. she altered the quest ion, said, Will anyone                      beautiful           left say                      Farewell? For the scoop on how I'm writing these and instructions to write your own, hit up my newsletter! reshoemaker.com
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Will anyone    beautiful    left in her three generations tell her "goodbye," say "farewell"? I’ve written some poems for Tupelo’s 30/30 using a cutup divination technique that I’d love to share! Check out the videos in my story and on TikTok, where I read the poems and talk about my process.
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Who should get the next ode—Rico or Zora?
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
30/30 with Tupelo Press has begun! I’ve written two poems so far, one an ode to my cat Buffy and one to a plant (shocking, I know). Every share and dollar counts. tupelopress.networkforgood.com/projects/247...
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I’m performing from the shiny new version of Ca’Venezia with MUSIC on Zoom February 26th! Registration link in bio; please join us for this very cool reading series featuring artist's books! (This baby photo of me and Laura Sousounis from the Venice Film Festival)
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Join us in celebrating the Annette Allen Prize awardees! It was a pleasure and an honor to judge, which you can read more about in my newsletter if you sign up!
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“The Idea of Purrfection: Furetry and Prrrs” by Pawl Valery Buffy was reading but had to hide to get some solo time (she self-isolated, don’t worry, I got her right back out)
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I love a good orchid Or a weird one Maybe a bad one Any orchid will do
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
WE’RE ENGAGED! At the beginning of January, I asked Corey to marry me! It was very cold, and we were at the Chicago Botanic Gardens near one of our favorite spots, the Japanese gardens, and he said yes even though I kept him outside for pictures.
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Rico says hello
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“Poetry, like all art forms, sits on the shoulders of a long history. Poets draw from whatever corner they’ve learned from or that they prefer: maybe a lineage of poets they identify with, their teachers, poems that shaped who they are, or poems they aspire to write.”
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The Yule cat was fabled to eat children who weren’t given new clothes for winter. Thus the stockings, perhaps?
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Happy belated solstice, from my wintry home to yours. Things about Yule that I learned this year: Some winter holiday trees used to be hung with strings of meat instead of garland.
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The deadline for students to submit to the Annette Allen Poetry Prize is December 15th--3 days! Encourage students you know to send in their work for this opportunity! thelouisvillereviewfleur-de-lispress.submittable.com/submit/99605...
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A little risqué ramen for your morning
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Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
!…And the world drops dead…! Thanks @kristenmiller.bsky.social for bringing the gorgeous Heating the Outdoors into English translation!
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