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Thank you for visiting my website. I'm always on the search for people who would like to read, publish, or even purchase my work. Maybe you're in one or all three of those categories.

If you wish to know more about me, take a look around. In addition to this website there are links to my social media page. I also maintain a long-time blog here. Oh, and i just launched my Patreon Page. And then there's my Bluesky.

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10/11/24

The Stone Soup Croutons poem from October 9 is now up. Read "Last Gasps."

Watch Stone Soup Poetry's online all-open mic from October 9 with special feature Noah Berlatsky.

The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for October 9 is up now at Substack.

American Haiku: Brave Lies.

"Unbroken" is my latest From Picture to Page poem on Patreon. Subscribe to read all my secret projects.

Stone Soup News updated for October.

Decided to do another Trump Truth Social blackout poem. Read "Attention" on Medium.

My micro poem "Workshop for the Defeated" is published in dadakuku.

Buy a mug with my name on it.

Find me in the Poets & Writers directory.

"Chad's work is perceptive, fresh, and eminently listenable."
Simone Beaubien, SlamMaster, Poetry at the Cantab Longue

"From nimble, spicy haiku and sharp political satire he can leap to the most intimate and subtle craft."
Prabakar T. Rajan, poet, author of A Slice of Water

You have done wonders for Stone Soup. You should be commended."
Doug Holder, founder, Ibbetson Street Press