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Bob King
@kingrobertj.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Kent State University Professor of English.
Poetry collection “And & And” out in August 2024.
"And/Or" forthcoming in September 2025.
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What is, My just-released second poetry collection from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social, now available on all retail platforms, Ken?

(Book release party coming in January.)
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
2024 & 2025.

Thank you Leah Maines & Finishing Line Press.

😘✌🏼
October 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
@stanchion.bsky.social 19 is now shipping & it's a pretty amazing issue. Here's the start of my poem that's included--to read the rest, follow the link in the comments. Thank you to the editors & other poets, writers, & artists.
July 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Friends! My second poetry collection is now on pre-sale & is due out end of September from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social!

They are a wild ride, the poems, & include a few prize-nominated pieces (including the one attached). Thank you to Jessica Jones & Ankit Raj Ojha for the generous blurbs.
May 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It's my wife's birthday & I got her some poetry--thanks to the wonderful Editor Jaime Alejandro @artscalling.com No. 10 is live & I'm grateful to have 3 pieces back at the coalition.
April 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Poets, if you’re not already working with Grace & her awesome editors @inkinthirds.bsky.social, you need to be: ink, poetry, wildflower seeds, & brilliant human touches in an era that needs all of these things. ✌🏼🌻
February 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Grateful to have a new poem up at a new literary magazine:

Waffle Fried Issue #1: Longing.

Available on Amazon.
Thank you to the fabulous editors!
February 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
When the close of another semester coincides with a Billy Collins reading in Cleveland.
December 3, 2024 at 2:46 PM
If you’ve not read Patrick Radden Keefe, start with the Sackler/opioid book, then the Snakehead/immigration book, then Say Nothing. And THEN watch the Hulu Series. More & more, short series prove a better medium to adapt books than do movies.

(Say Nothing: 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing)
November 21, 2024 at 2:15 AM