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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 28/09/2026

Nothing is better than being surrounded by creative friends.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 27/09/2026

That’s how people describe me sometimes

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 17/09/2026

The amazing Raye Hendrix is teaching a class at the NC Writers Network fall conference. Poets! You'll feel foolish if you don't sign up for this: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

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Fall Conference 2026 | North Carolina Writers' Network

Scroll down and click the respective pages to learn more.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 09/09/2026

One of the world’s leading experts—my wife—has diagnosed me as well

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 26/08/2026

Feeling grateful that I got to be in the world with Dolly Parton for 50+ years. She definitely made this place better.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 23/08/2026

Candid shot of when Rodda the Hutt announced Pivot Point as winners of the King Shit semifinal.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 19/08/2026

More people need to pay attention to this groundbreaking journalism.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 18/08/2026

Today’s my first day of classes, so I’m saying my little prayer: May I meet my students with humility and wonder, curiosity and joy.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 14/08/2026

Only two spaces left in this course! Don't you want to hop in?

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 11/08/2026

Learn comedy this fall. Monday nights. thisismettlesome.com/lab-calendar...

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 11/08/2026

M-W is fine, but lord how I love the OED.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 07/08/2026

Yes. Bankrupt those j-holes. gizmodo.com/meta-officia...

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 07/08/2026

Let’s make a video game called Teaching Simulator where players have to teach classes of 30-40 basic concepts in math and reading and get all the NPCs proficient and excited about learning. Then—surprise!— we Ender’s Game it for our best players!

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 06/08/2026

There's little that excites me more than sitting down to talk with people who are building something they're excited about because it will benefit people (unless that something is AI-related, in which case there is little that excites me less)

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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“I’d love to know forgetfulness.” Read & listen to “Post-Pandemic” by @rosswhite.com from our latest issue at the link below. kenyonreview.org/piece/post-p...

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My poem "Contentment" is also live in the new issue of @phoebejournal.bsky.social, sharing space with @adamg.bsky.social, @rosswhite.com & others. You can read at the link (the artwork paired with it is fantastic) or here. phoebejournal.com/contentment/

The quiet of the woods feathers my brain,
and my tongue magentas with beets.

Still I’m restless and cannot sleep.
I can’t explain the shadow’s abstractions—
how the coat rack becomes my dead father,
how dust motes swirl like fledglings in a riot of air.

I came here to be content, but it’s not working.
I must content myself with myself—
mind stuffed with clutter,
spilled contents of a tea cup,
amoeba birthmark on my collarbone,
pearls small moons against my chest.

When I finally sleep, I dream of horns that push
up through my belly and my nightgown.

I wake and scan myself for wounds.
I find only the usual ones.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 02/07/2026

So much tenderness in this photo. I'm sure Heidi is jealous.

Ross with a minor league mascot, a Warbird from the Wilson Warbirds.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 02/07/2026

Hey minor league teams, if you’re gonna bring someone in to sing the anthem who wants to put a little mustard on it, maybe make sure they can carry a tune before you hand them the mic.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 01/07/2026

Friday: Not only do you get to laugh a lot, you get to vote for your pal.

Pivot Point. Our next show: Friday, July 3, 7:00. Mettlesome Theater. Vote for us in the King Shit Tournament. (All of this lettering is bright orange. It’s a lot.)

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 30/06/2026

It's gonna be a If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power kind of day.

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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Just finished Issue 30 of THE SHORE, and I’m still thinking about the way Dan Albergotti’s “Listening to Heavy Metal, 1981 & 2024” and Ross White’s “Grunge” speak to music, memory, and the strange electricity a poem can leave behind. Read the latest issue: buff.ly/quvzgSu #Poetry #ReadLitMags

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 28/06/2026

Oh how I love a minor league mascot!

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 24/06/2026

Florence Y’alls at Gateway Grizzlies. My first Frontier League game after missing Florence at home last week due to rain.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 22/06/2026

I have poems in the new issue of The Shore! www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-30

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Issue 30 — THE SHORE

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 22/06/2026

I imagine George Fouracres is weeping

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 21/06/2026

Sunset over Coors Field. Skenes on the mound. Perfect.

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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"That was part of the grieving—leaving behind a part of myself and having to start over somewhere new. I didn’t know anybody here, and starting from scratch was daunting, but I’ve also made a new home here and feel like I’ve found my people."

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Durham Poet Arielle Hebert On Writing About Girlhood, Addiction, and the Mixed Magic of Florida

'Bottom Feeders,' Arielle Hebert's debut poetry collection, releases this month from Black Lawrence Press.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 16/06/2026

I find it’s best to be reading at least two books at a time: one I don’t ever want to put down and one I’m happy to put down (despite its utility and/or quality). If I have less than twenty minutes blocked to read, the one I’m happy to put down is a godsend.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 15/06/2026

About ten hours left, people.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 14/06/2026

This closes tomorrow. I hope you’re putting the final touches on that chapbook. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 14/06/2026

It's hard not to love the amateurs, the apprentices, the people who aren't there yet but are really excited to learn the craft and take it seriously.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 14/06/2026

This closes tomorrow. I hope you’re putting the final touches on that chapbook. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 14/06/2026

Whenever things feel hopeless, just remember: there was a time when thousands of young men trained their singing voices to sound just like Vince Neil. And we survived that.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 11/06/2026

I have become the most despised of all creatures: the adult swimming laps when the children arrive at the pool

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 11/06/2026

Durham! Come see readings and comedy this weekend!

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 10/06/2026

Still working on a chapbook of flash fiction, flash CNF, or poetry? The clock is ticking, people.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 07/06/2026

Excuse me if for the next few days nothing worthwhile comes out of me

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 06/06/2026

I’m reading submissions for @bullcitypress.com’s open reading period and there are so many freaking excellent unpublished poems out there. It’s staggering.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 06/06/2026

Whichever historical pal came up with the idea of corrective lenses deserves a monument.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 03/06/2026

After 3.5 years to the day, I'm withdrawing my submission to that big magazine in NY. Finally all of the poems have been accepted elsewhere.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 01/06/2026

Learn improv this summer... from this guy! Link below is to the June section, but I'll also be teaching in July. thisismettlesome.com/lab-calendar...

thisismettlesome.com

INTENSIVE: Improv 101: Intro to Improv (JUNE) — Lab Calendar

SUMMER INTENSIVE June 8 - 12 Learn the basics of improv comedy in a 5 day intensive setting!

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 01/06/2026

$15.99 eBooks can get fucked

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 01/06/2026

"What if it is rest and nothing else that we want? Is it a findable thing, small? In what hole is it hidden? Is it, maybe, a country? Will a guide be required who will say to us how? Do we fly? Do we swim? What will I do now, with my hands?" -- @cphillipspoet.bsky.social

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