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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 · 11/08/2026

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

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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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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 · 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 · 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 · 21/06/2026

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

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 24/05/2026

Opening night for the ONSL so I’m catching a game— Roanoke Rapids Static at Outer Banks Swinging Mullets.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 04/05/2026

I'll feel very lucky if I never have to stop celebrating young people making the art they want (and need) to make.

Student holding a chapbook entitled "Americana Troubled"

Student holding a chapbook entitled "67" with a collaged cover featuring many 6-7s.

Student holding a chapbook with hands extended in prayer on the cover

Student holding a chapbook with ransom-note lettering on the cover

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 04/05/2026

I have dearly loved this class and will miss them terribly. But this is the way: we give them our best energy for a term and they dazzle and befuddle and frustrate and challenge and astonish us. How lucky I am to get to be with their words!

Student holding a chapbook with a blue and white cover

Student holding a chapbook called "The Approximate Self" with an ouroboros on the cover.

Student holding a chapbook entitled "Dwelling" with a linocut cover of a house

Student holding a chapbook entitled "Elsewhere" with a brown cover and white lettering

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 04/05/2026

My Advanced Poetry students handed in chapbooks today, and friends, I could not be more proud. This is just a sampling.

Student holding a chapbook with a heron on the cover

Student holding a chapbook called "Salvador" with a sepia-toned photo of landscape

Student holding a chapbook called "You Are an Animal" with a collaged butterfly on its cover

Student holding a 3-D printed chapbook called "Radical Joy" in bold red letters.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 01/04/2026

Game #1 of 2026: Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs at Durham Bulls. Perfect night, great stadium. This is about all I could want.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 25/03/2026

Very suddenly, I’m performing tomorrow night at Mettlesome Theater in Durham with a team I quite like. 7:30 pm.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 20/03/2026

Ben, this bracket is busted.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 02/03/2026

Some photos from last night's house party: Daniel Wallace, Matthew Olzmann, Jameela F. Dallis, and Melissa Faliveno. This was a good night.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 23/02/2026

My UNC students have named their improv team WE ARE PREGNANT and I can imagine that their parents will be very confused when they attend the event.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 23/02/2026

Most recent poetry read was Amy Gerstler's IS THIS MY FINAL FORM?, which was thoroughly entertaining.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 19/02/2026

The new Amy Gerstler is wholly entertaining and pretty wonderful.

book cover for Is This My Final Form? by Amy Gerstler, featuring a b&w drawing of an ostrich

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 19/01/2026

UNC fan here: God, please take him.

ESPN headline: "Rex Ryan wants the Bills to hire Bill Belichick"

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

New year, new press: To kick off 2026, I'm launching Tiny Cat Press, a platform for handmade, limited edition chaps. I spent the last few weeks sewing books and now they're ready. Check out titles from Jason Gray and Sara Shea. tinycatpress.com

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 30/12/2025

I’m now a druggist in 1950s Eastern North Carolina.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 01/12/2025

You’ve got two chances to see the Gram-O-Rama: Word War III this year: Tuesday, December 2 at 7:00 pm in Coker 201 on UNC campus. Thursday, December 11 at 7:00 pm at Mettlesome Theater. (And stick around for ENGL 259’s performance at 8:15—an improv show by creative writing students!) FREE

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 23/11/2025

A movie that takes place where you're from:

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 09/08/2025

Finally seeing a game in Knoxville! Next summer I need to spend a week seeing Appy League and minor league games here.

Ross in a Tennessee Smokies hat at the field in Knoxville

A player wearing the gray and black Knoxville Giants uniform

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 02/08/2025

Crew-11 is safely aboard the International Space Station. I am so thrilled and relieved. Seeing the launch live, watching my brave friend (and the first Grind poet in space) face the excitement and fear with such poise and eloquence, knowing that she's fulfilled a life dream... it is wonderful.

Crew-11 is greeted by the astronauts aboard the International Space Station

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 31/07/2025

Crew-11 launch was scrubbed in the final seconds due to weather. Reminding myself that the process for keeping my friend safe worked today. Sounds like we may try tomorrow.

Ross and Matt Poindexter in the KSC Rocket Garden

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 30/07/2025

Drive clear across the state yesterday to see a ballgame in Bradenton FL. Met the mascot in Daytona on Sunday but he spent VERY little time on the concourse last night.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 28/07/2025

I know people hate on government inefficiency but what if every company made their products as well as NASA? This amazes me.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 28/07/2025

Kennedy Space Center. Continuing my week of childlike glee. This is AWESOME.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 28/07/2025

Daytona Beach tonight to see the Daytona Tortugas play the Palm Beach Cardinals. Met Sheldon, Shelly, and as a bonus, Bradenton’s Marty the Marauder!

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 27/07/2025

I’m in Columbus GA tonight to see the Clingstones play the Chattanooga Lookouts. The Clingstones’ mascot is Fuzzy the Peach and I LOVE HIM.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 23/07/2025

Muddy Mudcat, my DUDE. One of the all time great mascots.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 23/07/2025

I’m at Five County Stadium today, home of the Carolina Mudcats. A surprising delight: there are a bunch of butterflies in the lower deck today, flitting around, enjoying the game.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 05/07/2025

Good Lord, @tracibrimhall.bsky.social. This poem! from LOVE PRODIGAL go buy one: www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/love-p...

Cold, Crazy, Broken
At the end of it all he accused: You always had good

self-preservation instincts. O my selfish survival. I don’t

regret it, though I’m sorry I held his breath between

my horns until he explained me to myself, said cold

said crazy said broken, like an owl donating a mouse’s

bones to the barn floor, an archaeology of gray.

The end was a table set for twelve, a daisy sharpening

each glass of milk. Before the end, it was like the story

of a woman who woke to her pet constrictor stretched

out against her in bed, tail hooked to toe, split tongue

tasting the salt of her dream, each vein hot with her sleep,

and her veterinarian warned the beloved serpent was

measuring to see if she’d fit. I’ve woken like that, needed

a doctor to say: Let it go. You did everything you could.

At the end, he looked at me, eyes brown and delicate

as a fossil in limestone, and said my love was too weak

to keep him alive. God, I am tired of fetishizing resilience.

I’m ready for a breviary of arrows nocked and aimed

at the blood-dam between rib and rib, tongue lapping

at the garden’s gold riot, the sorority of coneflowers

posing for finches suspicious of a synonym that close

to God’s heart. I’m ready for a love with hope in it—

plausible, living, holy in its listening, like my pothos

perking when I sing to its vines, or the raven I brush

the wrong way to reveal behind the dark of its feathers

the deeper dark of its hearing. Listen, I become the story

of me—cold as mint, crazy as holding my shadow’s hand,

broken as night when the new moon rises through it.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 05/07/2025

I can’t believe I didn’t get a picture with these three while I was up there! What a knucklehead.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 26/06/2025

Love it love it love it! We have two black cats as well but they rarely consent to being photographed together. Spock likes to have all the attention to himself.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 16/06/2025

First improv show in almost a year— this one with a 101 class at Mettlesome. Great fun. I got to play a castaway on the island of Dr. Moreau, an 96-year-old Harrison Ford, a dead guy meeting God, and a man unwittingly participating in a parkour game show.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 16/06/2025

GREENSBORO: My beloved pal Marianne Gingher has a show at Artery on Friday (and through July 25). Come see the puppets that made Jabberbox Puppet Theater shows such a total delight.

JOIN artists, writers, songwriters & puppeteers
DEBORAH SEABROOKE * MARIANNE GINGHER *JIM RITCHEY
for a RECEPTION at THE ARTERY GALLERY*
FRIDAY, JUNE 20th, 5-7PM
& the launching of an exhibit of original puppets
Refreshments, Memorabilia, Art for sale, Live Music

SHOW RUNS June 20-July 25

*The Artery is located at 1711 Spring Garden St., Greensboro

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 16/06/2025

Ready to get published? I'll be teaching about chapbooks as part of MAPPING THE MAZE, a course through Poets & Writers next week. Get more information and register here: www.pw.org/content/work...

Graphic featuring B.K. Fischer, India Lena Gonzalez, Maureen Langloss, and Ross White

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 02/06/2025

You know me, I love a mascot.

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