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Daniel Shank Cruz
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🇵🇷 genderqueer bisexual Mennonite writer, they/multitudes. #Mets #LGM #haiku danielshankcruz.com
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I’m excited to have three poems in the new issue of #FemkuMag, which you can read here: 69b046c2-a7e1-4a9a-9a22-1c70986eaa24.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c0ea_9...
A poem by Daniel Shank Cruz, “muggy morning my knee brace sets off the security scanner” Two poems by Daniel Shank Cruz, “thinking about revolution their new lingerie” and “watching true crime / how a rib resembles / the moon”
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I’m excited to see how the rest of the offseason unfolds after yesterday’s trade! Let’s go, Mets! #LGM #MetsSky
A genderqueer Latinx person with a black beard and glasses wearing a blue Mets hat and lime green mask in front of a tall pine tree with yellow holiday lights on it.
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Another Dwight Gooden from the Bowman pack. 4/4 #MetsSky #CardSky
A baseball card with a painting of Dwight Gooden on the pitching mound in his windup wearing a blue Mets jersey with the number 16 in orange on the back, and the traditional blue Mets cap. The rest of the field is in the background. The card has a plain white border and there is no writing on it other than the artist’s unreadable signature at the bottom right hand of the card.
November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Two Blue Jays all-stars plus the Doctor from the rack pack, plus also two cards with almost the exact same pose and a card of Chris Brown wearing brown with his name printed on a brown background that makes my neurospicyness so happy! 3/? #MetsSky #CardSky
Jimmy Key, Tom Henke, and Dwight Gooden 1988 Topps all-star cards. 1988 Topps Ozzie Guillen and Mike Davis. Both have a photo of them batting left handed showing the back of the catcher crouched and the front of the batter poised to swing. 1988 Topps Chris Brown wearing a brown Padres jersey and with his name in white letters on a brown banner crossing the bottom right hand corner of the card.
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Four Hall of Famers in the 1988 wax pack! Plus an intact piece of gum (the one in the Bowman pack had started molding) 2/? #CardSky
1988 Topps cards of Tim Raines (all-star), Phil and Joe Niekro (record breakers), and White Sox leaders showing Harold Baines and Carlton Fisk, plus the red wrapper and stick of bubble gum.
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I’m really missing baseball, so I impulse bought a package of random packs from the 1980s/1990s. 1/? #CardSky
A photo of five baseball card packs: 1988 Topps red wax pack, 1988 Topps rack pack, 1989 Topps blue wax pack, 1990 blue Bowman wax pack, 1991 red Topps wax pack.
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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A few weeks later and I'm still mad about this Hall of Fame ballot 😆😭 Here's one more head-to-head of a more-deserving player getting left off: Dwight Gooden (let's go, Mets!) had a better career than Fernando Valenzuela. Neither is a HOFer in my book, but still. #LGM #MetsSky
A comparison of Fernando Valenzuela's and Dwight Gooden's pitching statistics. Gooden has more WAR, more wins, fewer losses, more strikeouts, and a better ERA and ERA+. Valenzuela pitched more games and thus more innings.
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I’m not a fan of the 2025 Topps design so I hadn’t bought any, but after a lot of hemming and hawing I decided to buy a Mets team set, and it’s fascinating that Topps chose to use the NYM abbreviation (blech) for the horizontal cards and Mets for the vertical ones. #CardSky #MetsSky
David Peterson’s 2025 Topps baseball card with a horizontal orientation and the letters NYM along the left margin with his name at bottom left. Juan Soto’s card is next to it with a vertical orientation and Mets along the left margin instead of NYM.
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I have two poems in the new issue of Kingfisher, which has a lovely cover.
A poem by Daniel Shank Cruz, “fireflies outside the window the ravioli overcook” A poem by Daniel Shank Cruz, “constitutional crisis my depillomania” The cover of Kingfisher 12, October 2025, with a cartoon-style blue and white kingfisher standing in front of a brick wall. The bird has a rainbow mohawk and is wearing a dark blue leather jacket.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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How is Mattingly on the ballot and Keith Hernandez isn't. (Unless Hernandez is considered pre-1980--he could go either way--but he wasn't on that ballot last year.)
A comparison of Keith Hernandez's and Don Mattingly's stats from baseball-reference.com. Hernandez has 60.4 WAR and Mattingly has 42.4
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Re: first basemen, Keith Hernandez (who somehow isn't even on the ballot???) has to get in before Mattingly.
A comparison of Keith Hernandez's and Don Mattingly's stats from baseball-reference.com. Hernandez has 60.4 WAR and Mattingly has 42.4
November 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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How the hell is Don Mattingly on the Contemporary Baseball Era Hall of Fame ballot and Keith Hernandez is not? Hernandez was clearly the better player. An 18 WAR difference, plus Hernandez got the most important hit in game 7 of the World Series TWICE! www.mlb.com/news/contemp... #LGM #LFGM #MetsSky
A graphic from baseball-reference.com comparing the career stats of Don Mattingly and Keith Hernandez. Hernandez has 60.4 WAR and Mattingly only has 42.4.
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I have a poem in the new issue of Modern Haiku!
Daniel Shank Cruz’s poem “dahlias in the post office window new collector’s stamps” The white cover of Modern Haiku, volume 56, number 3, Autumn 2025
October 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Arya loves to smoosh her head up against Bella’s butt 😻
Two tuxedo cats laying curled on a light grey couch. One has her head up against the back of the other.
October 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Saturday breakfast 🫐🥧🍨☕️
A photo of a coffee mug that has a woman with an Afro saying “F*ck a book ban” on it, a white bowl with a piece of blueberry pie and three scoops of vanilla ice cream in it, and a small transparent glass bowl of mixed nuts in it sitting on a brown wood grain desk. There are a mix of eight fountain pens and mechanical pencils in the background.
September 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I just acquired this copy of the first edition of Kenneth Yasuda’s A Pepper-Pod, a classic early text of English-language #haiku, and I have immediately fallen in love with it as an object, wondering about all of the people who have read it before me. It comes from a hospital in Framingham, MA.
The sea-green cover of Kenneth Yasuda’s A Pepper Pod, with an image of flowers in a vase on a table embossed into it. The title page of Kenneth Yasuda’s A Pepper-Pod, copyright 1947 by Alfred A. Knopf of New York. The copyright and dedication pages of A Pepper-Pod. It is dedicated to Bashō and Buson “in a hope that a bridge may be built between East and West.” The copyright page has a handwritten note in pencil that the book was donated to the Cushing Hospital library by Mrs. Grace DuPont on February 17, 1958.
August 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Pretty awesome to be at Citi Field for Jonah Tong’s first ever major league pitch 💙🧡 Let’s go, Mets! #LFGM #MetsSky
Citi Field
August 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I’m happy to have a poem in the new issue of Frogpond. #haiku #senryu
Daniel Shank Cruz’s poem “rain against the window the sound of society collapsing” The white cover of volume 48, number 2 of Frogpond with a figure of a yellow smiley sun, blue butterfly, and green scuba flippers in the foreground and the journal name and number in black.
July 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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I just now got a chance to unbox the David Wright bobblehead that I got at Sunday’s Mets game and… it has three arms! The right arms have magnets in them so you can choose to have him holding his two Gold Gloves (to go with his two Silver Sluggers) or a baseball.
A picture of a David Wright bobblehead. He is dressed in a mid-2000s white Mets uniform and holding two silver bats in his left hand and two gold baseball mitts in his right hand. A third arm holding a baseball is at the base of the bobblehead, which has the number 5 and his name on it.
July 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Forty years ago today my father took me to my first Mets game. They beat Atlanta 16-4 and I’ve been a fan ever since! I’m happy to be able to celebrate the anniversary at the ballpark with family and friends 💙🧡💙🧡
Three people in Mets jerseys in the stands at Citi Field. Four people in Mets shirts in the stands at Citi Field. Four people posing for the camera at Citi Field. A bearded person wearing a Mets hat.
July 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I’m thrilled to have seven poems as the “Femku Feature” in the new issue of #FemkuMag! You can read the full issue here: 69b046c2-a7e1-4a9a-9a22-1c70986eaa24.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c0ea_2... #haiku #senryu #haibun #poetry
A photo of Daniel Shank Cruz’s bio statement and three senryu that are available in the link shared in the main post. A photo of three senryu that are available in the link shared in the main post. A photo of a haibun that is available in the link of the main post.
July 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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I got my contributor’s copy of this monumental (in all senses of the word) anthology of Mennonite literary criticism from 1869-present in the mail today. It’s 700 pages, only 400 less than the Martyrs Mirror!😆 But for real, it’s a breathtaking piece of scholarly labor that I’m proud to be a part of.
The cover of In Search of a Mennonite Imagination: Key Texts in Mennonite Literary Criticism edited by Robert Zacharias. It has a white background with aqua blue text. The thick white and blue spine of In Search of a Mennonite Imagination. The first page of Daniel Shank Cruz’s essay On Postcolonial Mennonite Writing: Theorizing a Queer Latinx Mennonite Life.
July 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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A fun time at Citi Field tonight! Good solid win by the Mets. Lindor had three RBI on his jersey night 🇵🇷 #LGM #LFGM #MetsSky
Bearded person wearing a Mets jersey Infield of Citi Field Citi Field light show Citi Field light show
July 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Some exciting news: my book a good possible year for an apocalypse: poems has just been published by Red Moon Press! You can buy it for the low, low price of $20 U.S. at this link (redmoonpress.com/.../a-good-p...) or directly from me if you’d like a signed copy—just send me a DM.
A photo of the cover of Daniel Shank Cruz's book a good possible year for an apocalypse: poems. The cover is a photograph of a dock made of red and grey bricks leading out into the foggy Hudson River. The book's title is printed in black and the subtitle and author's name are printed in white.
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A great job by the Mets to win the season series against the Dodgers last night! Also, I love funky box score lines like Juan Soto’s: I’ll take 0 for 1 with three walks and a ribbie any day 👀 #LGM #LFGM #MetsSky
A picture of the Mets-Dodgers box score from June 4 (Mets won 6-1) with the Juan Soto statistics mentioned in the post highlighted in green.
June 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM