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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I am, to use the most infelicitous phrasing, writing on, at, or around: a new novel. I cast those other four in-progress novels into the sorry desk to be messed with some other year. Onward!

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Cannot access Live Nude Poems email right now so the site is on hiatus until I can figure it out. Thanks-- Rusty & Heather

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you’re a magazine that publishes poetry or know anyone that does, I’d like to follow you. Please add accordingly and alert your writer posse. :-) Thank you. Rusty

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Is there an MFA program for songwriters? I mean, can you imagine a cohort filled with, let's say, the young John Prine, Dolly Parton, Kristin Hersch, Rhett Miller, Jeff Tweedy, Melissa Etheridge? Who would teach this group?

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Having trouble with the back-end of Live Nude Poems again. Thanks for your patience with us.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Youngling #3 and I made a recipe from my childhood school lunches: nobake cookies. Verdict, eh. Memory Lane is often weed-covered.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Just pulled out a couple guitars so I can start my youngest on the path to an expensive hobby. I am not the man I was when I last fingerpicked anything. But, I've been listening to Howlin' Wolf's Evil. Three chords and a little lick, bwah. I cannae do it right now. Soon though!

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Bought a couple weeks ago, just now looking at it closely. May be the best purchase I've made in a while!

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Hope you're all well out there going into the weekend. I'm locked in watching Los Spurs tonight. What are you up to?

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Hi y'all. I just ate half a sleeve of saltines, and I should probably not eat the other half. Looking forward to reading a Heinlein bio tonight and this weekend. I hope you all have a good weekend.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Do I know any Robert Heinlein scholars? I really liked his book Grumbles from the Grave, and I have read Stranger, and some stories. I got a few of them in e-book form. Just idly wondering.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Theoretically, totally asking for a friend, sure, would you consider buying a chapbook with no previously published poems?

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Since I'm part of the MFA cabal, this seems like a no-brainer to read. Fascinating stuff.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The Library of America Carver collection is first-rate. And I don't generally buy hardcovers.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Hi. Truly hope you're all well. Have a good weekend.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I am writing a new novel following the technique John Steinbeck used: handwrite muse and plotwork on the left page, handwrite the novel on the right page. I've never done much planning before and I'm hopeful this will work for me.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I have four unpubbed novel ms, one full-length poetry book ms, a poetry chap ms, and four re-releases of books that heretofore have not had e-book versions. So I started another novel. 💩

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My MFA was good for my writing. I know people dismiss it, but it was a couple years spent aggressively pursuing what it taught me. Most of all, I read. And read. And read more. And got appropriate feedback. Better writing followed. You don't need a degree to do that,but I did.

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