Category Archives: Ephemera

Yuri Gagarin Considers Poetry from Orbit

Posted on 2026-04-26 by Bartholomew Barker

Puddles in parking lots always fit their potholes and here am I, looking down on a blue planet, my body in a strange suit, in a little ball of metal. The Pacific below, the moon high above. The Sea of … Continue reading →

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Please Touch the Art

Posted on 2025-08-09 by Bartholomew Barker

Last week I visited the Charles H. Taylor Visual Arts Center in Hampton, Virginia, to see the Please Touch the Art exhibit by Sally Barker. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen these works since the artist is my mother. … Continue reading →

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Poetic Outliers

Posted on 2025-04-30 by Bartholomew Barker

Poets live on the outskirts of life all the better to observe from a distance happiness is not an advantage Every community needs four poets one for each of the four winds a leader — a dreamer a sister and … Continue reading →

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National Voter Registration Day

Posted on 2024-09-17 by Bartholomew Barker

It’s National Voter Registration Day in the U. S. A. Click the graphic to be taken to their website where you can start the process to register or, if you think you’re already registered, to confirm it. I recently moved … Continue reading →

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Fraiku: Brood

Posted on 2024-05-10 by Bartholomew Barker

Every 13 years poems dig themselves up — molting metaphors open mic drone (Found this little guy, legs up, twitching on the sidewalk. I took this shot after turning him over. Hope he gets laid and dies well.)

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Free Verse Revolution: Compass

Posted on 2023-10-26 by Bartholomew Barker

I’m am very proud to announce that two of my poems have been included in Free Verse Revolution Issue XI: compass which is now available for free digital download or to purchase a good old fashioned hard copy for display … Continue reading →

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Fraiku: Twilight

Posted on 2022-11-04 by Bartholomew Barker

Night falls on democracy When the people fail to vote Be the dawn Vote early if you still can. Tuesday is Election Day.

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Bartholomew Barker

Posted on 2022-10-29 by Bartholomew Barker

Originally posted on I Write Her:
Agata Samulska – Unsplash Roses I only pretend to smell the roseswhen I kiss their petals with lipschapped by twenty years of thirst. I never expected to live this longwithout you. For the Bird…

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Fraiku: Freedom

Posted on 2022-09-23 by Bartholomew Barker

Why are those who cryFreedom loudest, waving the flag,the first to ban books? for Banned Books Week

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Social Justice Inks – Anthology of Poetry is LIVE

Posted on 2022-06-06 by Bartholomew Barker

Originally posted on Prolific Pulse Blog:
cover art by Kay Payne We are beyond excited to announce that Social Justice Inks – Anthology of Poetry is available on Amazon and many other online stores, there is also an ePub available…

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