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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘Because it’s in a poem, where words have more significance, ho ho.’ And now with the weather, here’s non-meteorologist Ron Padgett.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes I don't want to lug around a big, fat "Complete Stories' and instead hold the original collection an author put together. Very pleased with this partiulat Stacks request.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fernando Pessoa understanding exactly what happens when Imposter Syndrome hits, long before the phrase was ever invented.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Cesare Pavese felt like the right companion for a stop along the Almafi coast.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Back to customizing my notebooks with movie stills (in this case, from Rhomer's 'The Aviator's Wife').

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

In honor of Earth Day, I'm sharing ‘Work Appropriate,’ the only poem I've written that's ever been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and published a few years back in The Loch Raven Review. thelochravenreview.net/shane-schick/

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This poem by Sarah Des Rosiers-Legault from the latest @cv2magazine.bsky.social is too funny and too smart and too amazing not to share.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Me after sending out just three poetry submissions

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

For #WorldPoetryDay I want to celebrate a living poet, George Bilgere, whose daily Poetry Town newsletter has become a must-read every morning. This is one of his own poems and moved me to tears when I read it this past Valentine's Day. I immediately read it aloud to my wife.

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Some good poems up in the new issue of Poems for Persons of Interest, from me, @shaneschick.bsky.social, Isabel Chenot, Brad Skow, and many others. Check it all out here-- pfpoi.blogspot.com/p/december-2... --and here's my poem:

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This will definitely be my last publication of the year, but I'm very grateful to Alex Rettie and Poems for Persons of Interest for including 'Authorization' in their December issue, which you can find here: pfpoi.blogspot.com/p/december-2...

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December 2025 Issue

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

'Consumerism consumes all questioning. The past becomes obsolete.' John Berger perfectly capturing the state of global tyranny in 2025 (except this was from 'Bento's Sketchbook,' first published in 2011).

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

'As if the beautiful world has no end.' Loved this Dan Rosenberg poem from the latest @sixthfinch.bsky.social

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Starting off the week with a grateful return to Traces Journal, which published my poem 'Everything.' Thanks as always to Maya, its editor, for supporting my work.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Guys, my sports-obsessed, video game-loving 17-year-old son asked to borrow my copy of Emily Dickinson's collected works. Not for an assignment. Like, to read. For fun. I think my work here is done.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"You who now claim to be poets, humble yourselves before what you should be." Raymond Queneau

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Watching "Come See Me In The Good Light" about the late Andrea Gibson and I don't think I've ever seen a pair of lovers editing a poem on film before.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

"The pen, the pot of ink, the strewn pages." Goodnight from Raymond Carver.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Saw a submission call asking for writers to send poems that "perform Olympic feats with language." Bro, I'm lucky if I achieve Little League feats with language.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Can't stop, won't stop. 📸: Me

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

A little spark of a poem from me for #smallpoemsunday. Cheers to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social amid the imminent publication of his new book!

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

So grateful for my three kids but also always missing my own father, which is why I'm resharing this poem that was originally published in Juniper: A Poetry Journal.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A while back something really terrible happened to our church. We got through it as a parish but I couldn't stop thinking about it. Grateful to the editors of a Christian literary magazine called Traces for publishing the poem I wrote as a result. tracesjournal.ca/p/exhortation

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Missing my father on what would have been his birthday. Reshaping my poem 'Volition' about his final days, first published in the South Florida Poetry Journal.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Oh please, world, open for us. Please, unfold your delicate petals. Please, color this landscape that's been dark for so long. Please blossom. Please bloom. (📸: Me)

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Me and my idea for a poem before we've figured out how to actually write the poem. (From Antonioni's 'L'Eclisse,' 1962)

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Good morning. Happy Easter. He is risen.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Not necessarily my most productive year so far, but at least I still enjoy the challenge. (Image: from Anontioni's 'The Vanquished,' 1953)

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I wrote a sad poem and it felt so gooooooooood

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I probably spent a collective two-plus hours walking in the city today. At one point I stopped in a coffee shop to write a poem and now I'm about to write another and I don't think it's a coincidence.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It's a poem about aging, the joy of living and the relationship between fathers and sons. It's also a poem about sneakers, of which there can never be too many. Thanks to Brandon for including this in @mgliterary.bsky.social! www.moonlitgetaway.com/poem/tread-r...

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

"Write from a feeling of untapped life that has become so huge that it is like a massive mountain gathering inside of you." A little craft talk tucked inside 'The Book Against Death' by Elias Canetti.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Saturday mornings are for coffee, reading poetry or fiction (okay, a few essays too) and generally not leaving my favorite space.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

"And every night I look through my telescope to see if anything's fluttering or sputtering" Why take drugs when you can just read James Tate?

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"I still walk into a bookstore or a library convinced that I might be on the threshold that will open up onto what I most need or desire." Rebecca Solnit on the power and pleasure of books.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Well, it took until Feb. 20 but I just got my first poetry acceptance of 2025 and boy, am I grateful someone actually wants to publish something I've written again.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I bought a notebook with a white cover that got smudged. The stationary store used these paper bags with old advertisements all over them that I loved, so I re-covered the notebook with it. Small joys, small victories.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Long before we were Mommy and Daddy, or even Mr. And Mrs., we were just Me and You. No matter what, we'll always be Us. #valentinesday 📷: AJ

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"In the dark I thought of a radiant ordinariness That burned, that burned and burned." (Robert Hass, 'A Sunset') 📷: Me

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Create anything, even just a bad haiku. Then make it better.

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Every time I manage to write a poem lately, like tonight, I feel like I've successfully managed to walk a mile against a gust of strong wind. (Or maybe, to be more precise, hot air)

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Shane Schick @shaneschick.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Just got another poetry rejection. That means it must be the weekend!

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