Slinging songs in my library. Here are two: Cloudy + Blood on the Banks of the Dirty Ohio. Thanks for looking/listening. ascoomer.com/2024/10/28/clo…

As of 11:11am EST my poetry/music EP—SING WHILE YOU CAN—is out for streaming/downloading/etc. ascoomer.com/2024/10/31/sin… #ASCoomer #SingWhileYouCan #Poetry #Music #KentuckyPoet

Live from the banks of the meandering Nolin River… This poem, “river montage (Nolin River Aubade #33)”, was published in Marrow Magazine.  youtu.be/dqf8H2M-HsA?si… marrowmagazine.com/river-montage-…

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SING WHILE YOU CAN is a poetry/music hybrid. All nine poems/songs are out there for yer streaming pleasure. Here’s the Spotify leenk: open.spotify.com/album/1cXDqoNF… #ASCoomer #SingWhileYouCan #Poetry

My poem—i sit / & write—was anthologized in International Beat Poet Laureate Fin Hall’s #BeatPoetry #anthology AIN’T NO DEAD BEATS AROUND HERE, which is out now. To celebrate, I read the poem to Freeman Lake Creek. youtu.be/hwA7Chdag8k?si…

Nowhere one goes will one ever be away enough from wherever one was. —Robert Creeley, “Echo” #Reading #Poetry

I’m doing a half-hour set of my songs for the Heartland Songwriters Association of Kentucky on 1/3/25 at Waters Edge Winery & Bistro. Here’s a pic Mike McGuire took of me slinging some tunes there this past Friday. I did the edits. #ASCoomer #Live #Folk #Americana #AltCountry

Do you see how I persist in telling you about the flowers when I mean to describe the rain? —Diane Seuss, from FRANK: SONNETS #Reading #Poetry

Prayers are not parachutes. —Mick Kennedy, “Kerouac Wakes up Hungover by the Side of the Road” #Reading #Poetry Kelsay Books

The Grant Morrison runs of Batman are incredible. #Reading #Batman #GrantMorrison Grant Morrison Batman

we all gots stuff we gotta carry: books, phones, candy, court summonses, etc., so why not do it with a sick A.S. Coomer tote bag?! There are several size and color options. bonfire.com/ascoomertotes/

slinging poems in scottsburg, indiana this afternoon. thanks in advance to Michael Duckwall for hosting.

Michael Duckwall hosts a poetry reading and acoustic open mic at Java Station 56 in Scottsburg, Indiana. He kindly asked me to perform. I did a set of river and flood related poems, most of which are new & unpublished.  youtu.be/6FGDMIY10h8?si… #LivePoetry #ASCoomer #Poetry

Big thanks to Dan Denton for the BIRTH OF A MONSTER shoutout in his A Thin Slice of Anxiety piece “Books to Bury Me With”. Check out Dan’s list. athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/02/books-… Hit me up if yer looking for a signed copy. Beware the Derby City Butcher! #ASCoomer #DanDenton #Books

I’m yer host for Flywheel Brewing’s Poetry reading and all Poetry open mic. Our featured reader for March is Nashville’s Sara Minges. Signup to share yer work at 3:45pm EST. Sara will kick things off at 4pm EST. Bring yer friends! Tomorrow is the day!

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The art of losing isn’t hard to master. —Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art” #Reading #Poetry

slinging poems in bloomington, indiana next week!