Michele McDannold
@oneldammit.bsky.social
Poet/Publisher at Roadside Press
Happy Pre-Friday! here's a fresh new poem from Jim Daniels theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/12... #poetry
Advice from the Boss Upon His Retirement by Jim Daniels - The Literary Underground
Advice from the Boss Upon His Retirement Bosses are not your friend. Nope. If we want your opinion, we don’t want your opinion. If we pat you on the back, examine for stab wounds in the bathroom stall...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Happy Pre-Friday! here's a fresh new poem from Jim Daniels theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/12... #poetry
happy hump day! here is a most excellent review by Pella Felton of NEON PASTORAL by Valerie Perreault theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/12...
Pella Felton reviews Neon Pastoral by Valerie Perreault - The Literary Underground
Pella Felton reviews Neon Pastoral by Valerie Perreault Perreault, Valerie (2025) Neon Pastoral (Poetry Collection). The Ashland Poetry Press. 97p. $17.95 (Paperback) Winner – 2024 Richard Snyder Memo...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
happy hump day! here is a most excellent review by Pella Felton of NEON PASTORAL by Valerie Perreault theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/12...
and we're back! check out the latest column to find out what's going on with THE POLISH HAMMER theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/12...
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
and we're back! check out the latest column to find out what's going on with THE POLISH HAMMER theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/12...
THE BROKEN BUDDHA by Johnny Cordova Cover Reveal & Pre-order link! www.magicaljeep.com/product/budd... Cover Art by Harim Choi, Design by Dominique Ahkong. Reserve your signed copy today! #poetry #booksky
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
THE BROKEN BUDDHA by Johnny Cordova Cover Reveal & Pre-order link! www.magicaljeep.com/product/budd... Cover Art by Harim Choi, Design by Dominique Ahkong. Reserve your signed copy today! #poetry #booksky
it's ma birthday and super duper plus, my book is released! if you'd like a signed copy, go hit up magicaljeep.com #poetry #booksky
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
it's ma birthday and super duper plus, my book is released! if you'd like a signed copy, go hit up magicaljeep.com #poetry #booksky
Reposted by Michele McDannold
"...tell no one, but listen," writes @oneldammit.bsky.social my forthcoming publisher at Roadside Press, who's got an impressive new book of collected poems, edited by Ezhno Martin. Here's a link to get it. >>> ISBN 979899625632 👏🎉🔥 www.magicaljeep.com/product/mcda...
December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"...tell no one, but listen," writes @oneldammit.bsky.social my forthcoming publisher at Roadside Press, who's got an impressive new book of collected poems, edited by Ezhno Martin. Here's a link to get it. >>> ISBN 979899625632 👏🎉🔥 www.magicaljeep.com/product/mcda...
Happy Monday, mofos! selfishly hoping you'll check out today's offering at The Literary Underground's IN CONVERSATION. Richard Modiano reviews my collection, Collected Poems 2005-2025 theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/12... #poetry #review #booksky
Richard Modiano reviews Collected Poems 2005-2025 by Michele McDannold - The Literary Underground
McDannold, Michele (2025). Collected Poems 2005-2025 (Poetry Collection) Roadside Press 279p. $20.00 (Paperback) Michele McDannold’s Collected Poems 2005–2025 is a bruising, beautiful chronicle of two...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Happy Monday, mofos! selfishly hoping you'll check out today's offering at The Literary Underground's IN CONVERSATION. Richard Modiano reviews my collection, Collected Poems 2005-2025 theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/12... #poetry #review #booksky
happy Sunday! here's a new killer poem by Tony Gloeggler theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
Dexter by Tony Gloeggler - The Literary Underground
Dexter You’re streaming that show everyone was talking about ten, twelve years ago, the one with the detached unemotional guy working as a forensic, Los Angeles PD, blood splatter expert who spends hi...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
happy Sunday! here's a new killer poem by Tony Gloeggler theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
happy Saturday! check out this poem by John Grey theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
FARMS R.I.P. by John Grey - The Literary Underground
FARMS R.I.P. drizzle drifts along the hilltops dogs growl fearlessly behind rusted gates in each rotting farmhouse are the seeds of its own dissolution the forest looks green and new but humanity is o...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
happy Saturday! check out this poem by John Grey theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
Happy Fuck-It Friday! here's a fresh new poem from Damon Hubbs theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
Montpelier Song by Damon Hubbs - The Literary Underground
Montpelier Song I used to go to The Black Door every Friday to see Nicole. She was tall and slightly nordic or nordic once removed, a nose like a golden shovel of all the best lines, eyes in a dream s...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Happy Fuck-It Friday! here's a fresh new poem from Damon Hubbs theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
recording from the featured reading at the Underground Lit Fest 2025 in Toledo OH www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OoS... #poetry
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November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
recording from the featured reading at the Underground Lit Fest 2025 in Toledo OH www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OoS... #poetry
Gobble Gobble!! a one-act play for your Thanksgiving theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
Stuffing: A Thanksgiving Play In One Act by Tim Murray - The Literary Underground
Stuffing: A Thanksgiving Play In One Act (True Story 2009) Players: Son: A loutish bearded hack in his early 30s. Mom: Early 50s. A million miles a minute. Setting: Mom and Son are perched on a power ...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Gobble Gobble!! a one-act play for your Thanksgiving theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
Happy Turkey Day! check out this poem by Guy Roads theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
What Kind Of A Bird Is This? by Guy Roads - The Literary Underground
What Kind Of A Bird Is This? I have this idea for a poem I hope it’s a poem it wants to be a poem it’s gonna try to be a poem but maybe it won’t be a poem maybe it’ll just be a hybrid with a handicap ...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Happy Turkey Day! check out this poem by Guy Roads theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
happy humpday! today we have a thoughtful review from Pella Felton on STREETLAMP NAUTILUS by Catharine Batsios theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #booksky #review
Pella Felton Reviews Streetlamp Nautilus by Catharine Batsios - The Literary Underground
Pella Felton Reviews Streetlamp Nautilus by Catharine Batsios Batsios, Catharine (2025). Streetlamp Nautilus (Poetry Collection) Luchador Press 98p. $13.00 (Paperback) By the time the I made my way th...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
happy humpday! today we have a thoughtful review from Pella Felton on STREETLAMP NAUTILUS by Catharine Batsios theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #booksky #review
Holy Toledo Pt 3 of 3! you bet your bippity theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER: Holy Toledo (pt 3 of 3) by Karl Koweski - The Literary Underground
Holy Toledo (pt 3 of 3) My wife would like me to mention straight away that I got lost several times on the way to Culture Clash Records the morning of the Lit Fest. That is simply not true. I turned ...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Holy Toledo Pt 3 of 3! you bet your bippity theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
happy Sunday! here's a fresh new poem by Sarah Sarai theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
Being Human Is Easy Breezy by Sarah Sarai - The Literary Underground
Being Human Is Easy Breezy Someone turns on the lights And the factory keeps buzzing Then foreclosure and Whatever was done is done. This thing can be done In a Jello-mold kind of way, The way of mars...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
happy Sunday! here's a fresh new poem by Sarah Sarai theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
another great poem by AL ORTOLANI to greet your Saturday theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
The Prayer Thermos by Al Ortolani - The Literary Underground
The Prayer Thermos All night rain, waking to mop the prayer from my sleep When I was a young man working at a gas station, a season’s rain fell in one afte...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
another great poem by AL ORTOLANI to greet your Saturday theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
happy Fuck-It Friday! a powerful poem from Jon Bennett today theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
On My Back by Jon Bennett - The Literary Underground
On My Back At the ½ house one of the counselors got Parkinsons He could still hoist the 20 gallon water jug onto the dispenser but then he couldn’t and became slow as a tortoise, couldn’t do the bed c...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
happy Fuck-It Friday! a powerful poem from Jon Bennett today theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
welcome to thursday! here's a kick-ass poem by Juliet Cook theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
Empty Holes for Eyes by Juliet Cook - The Literary Underground
Empty Holes for Eyes These recurring false awakenings feel too close to vivid comatose states of horror that never end. I look at myself in the mirror and have no eyes. Then I realize if I really had ...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
welcome to thursday! here's a kick-ass poem by Juliet Cook theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
happy wednesday! here's a lovely, nostalgic poem by Misti Rainwater-Lites theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
The Queen of Texas by Misti Rainwater-Lites - The Literary Underground
The Queen of Texas When my maternal grandmother was still relevant she fried porkchops. She fried chicken. She fried okra. She fried bacon. She fried sausage. She dunked cookies in coffee. She burned ...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
happy wednesday! here's a lovely, nostalgic poem by Misti Rainwater-Lites theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
hey y'all, it's Tuesday! part two of "Holy Toledo" by Karl Koweski is now live at theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER: Holy Toledo (pt 2) by Karl Koweski - The Literary Underground
Holy Toledo (pt 2) I woke up the morning of the Underground Lit Fest snuggled in a warm bed, absolutely ecstatic I didn’t spend the night in the backseat of my Jeep, which seemed a very real possibili...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
hey y'all, it's Tuesday! part two of "Holy Toledo" by Karl Koweski is now live at theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11...
well fuck me runnin, it's monday again! here's the perfect poem to soothe your way into the week, by Jack Phillips Lowe theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
Apple-Polishing Rag by Jack Phillips Lowe - The Literary Underground
Apple-Polishing Rag It’s 1:30AM on Tuesday. I have a job interview scheduled for today. But I don’t want to go. The job is dull and dirty. It will not offer me enough payroll hours, a wage equal to my...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
well fuck me runnin, it's monday again! here's the perfect poem to soothe your way into the week, by Jack Phillips Lowe theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
happy sunday, y'all. here's a thoughtful review by Richard Modiano on Steve Henn's TRYING TO CATCH A FLAME IN THIS WINDSTORM AT THE END OF THE WORLD theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry #booksky
Richard Modiano reviews Trying to Catch a Flame in this Windstorm at the End of the World by Steve Henn - The Literary Underground
Trying to Catch a Flame in this Windstorm at the End of the World by Steve Henn (Arroyo Seco Press) Steve Henn’s Trying to Catch a Flame in this Windstorm at the End of the World is a raw, funny, and ...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
happy sunday, y'all. here's a thoughtful review by Richard Modiano on Steve Henn's TRYING TO CATCH A FLAME IN THIS WINDSTORM AT THE END OF THE WORLD theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry #booksky
happy saturday! here's a new poem by CL Bledsoe theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
Because Death Is Real by CL Bledsoe - The Literary Underground
Because Death Is Real Because death is real, I overwatered my pansies the day after it rained. It’s the last thing I’ve got. The last thing alive in my life. Because death is real, I blocked you on my...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
happy saturday! here's a new poem by CL Bledsoe theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
Happy Fuck-It Friday! get in on this kick-ass poem from Ryan Quinn Flanagan theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry
Clods of Mead for the Ancient Mind by Ryan Quinn Flanagan - The Literary Underground
Clods of Mead for the Ancient Mind The world is a small place if you crawl back into the womb. When I hold my hands out, it is with a moderate disbelief more than faith. Dirty dish water after the din...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Happy Fuck-It Friday! get in on this kick-ass poem from Ryan Quinn Flanagan theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/11... #poetry