Tom Barlow

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Heads up, mystery readers! 📢 A new anthology from @ThaliaPress called Time After Time hits the digital shelves for PRE-ORDER today, with a new original short story by me. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPQMXFDS. Full release is March 10. #MysteryAnthologies #ShortStories #PreOrder #HistoricalMysteries

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Battle of the Bulge by Tom Barlow Battle of the Bulge 1960. I’m 15 watching Dad size up the used car dealer, not a stalwart man but he does wear a vest, smokes Luckies like my old man. We walk his lot; he carries a chamois to buff …

I'm pleased today that poem "The Battle of the Bulge" is a feature on One Art Poetry. oneartpoetry.com/2025/08/28/b...

Dingleberry

In other counties an attempt to thwart democracy on behalf of a would-be tyrant has led to a military coup.

Drawing Class — The Poetry Lighthouse The teacher shared a print  of the primitive wall paintings  from the Cave of Lascaux  and I snapped my pencil in half, packed up my supplies, and slipped out the back door. Tru...

My poem "Drawing Class" appears today on The Poetry Lighthouse. Lacking any fine arts talent I had to use my words. www.thepoetrylighthouse.com/poems/drawin...

Say What? — The Poetry Lighthouse After thirty years of marriage, my wife has taken to speaking more and more softly.  "Your fly is open," she whispered  at the breakfast table just this morning.  I was listening th...

Thanks so much to the editors of The Poetry Lighthouse for running my poet "Say What?" today. Perhaps it will bring you a chuckle.
www.thepoetrylighthouse.com/poems/say-what

That Arias at bat with the bases loaded was perhaps the worst at bat with the bases loaded and the game in question that I've ever seen.

Oh shit.

There are probably a hundred former pros looking for work that are better than Noel. Futile to play him.

If Naylor's bat is cheese and Hedges is light years better defensively why not bench Naylor?

The ONE ART 2025 Haiku Anthology The ONE ART 2025 Haiku Anthology A Note from the Editor: While some are most concerned with filling the first page, I’m more daunted by the second iteration of anything. The first sets an expectati…

Happy Haiku Day! And to commemorate it, One Art has posted its 2025 anthology of haiku edited by Katie Dozier, including one of mine and many by poetry friends. oneartpoetry.com/2025/04/17/t...

He did make a great play on that ball Ramierz booted earlier.

Have you ever seen a more brain- dead baserunner than Roccio? Every game he's wandering off base around like a three year old in a toy store. @guardians

Spring 2025 Issue – Gyroscope Review Poets and poetry Readers! Welcome to the 2025 Spring Issue! We have a wide variety of poems in this issue, including a bunch that themed together nicely.

My poem "Love Poem" is live today on the Gyroscope Review. You'll get a belly laugh or two from it or I don't know comedy. (I don't claim to know comedy.) Page 9. www.gyroscopereview.com/2025/04/spri...

I find it silly that the Guardians TV crew wears a tie to broadcast baseball.

Today's writing music: Townes Van Zandt

thanks, Gerold.

I'm proud to have my poem "Trash Talk" appear in the new issue of Gaia Lit. The whole issue is worth exploration. www.gaialit.org/issue-six-to...

River of Ash, fiction by Tom Barlow reprinted from River of Ash M addy slid Ethan's hand off her thigh, painfully aware that Jacob, to whom she had granted groping rights un...

Check out my noir short story "River of Ash" in the journal Tough. redneck-press.blogspot.com/2025/03/rive...

Today's writing music: Franz Ferdinand

The Poet's Search for Joy "Where in this feast can you find your joy?"

In which I explore the writer's search for joy. open.substack.com/pub/litmagne...

Today's writing music: "Curious Ruminant," Jethro Tull

www.thehyperbolicreview.com/issue-1

This short poem of mine comes to mind now, in the maelstrom.

America, you've won! Your prizes?
A gun, a baby, and a Bible.
No, you can’t turn it down.

Today's writing music: The Dream of the Blue Turtles, by Sting.

I couldn't agree more.

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So now we join up on the Russia-North Korea team in the U.N. against the Ukrainians. Every day, a new humiliation. What hold Putin has on his mole must be compelling.

Today's writing music: Solid Gold, Beastie Boys