The Poet for Hire Welcomes You

Photo by Jerry Hoyt

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 launched my Patreon Page. And then there's my Bluesky.

I have two collections available: Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts and All's Well Isn't You!

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6/8/26

It's Later Now, Part Forty: Sop. Read it on my Patreon.

"Trump: America's Idol" is my latest essay for Substack.

Watch Stone Soup Poetry's online all-open mic from June 3.

The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for June 3 is up now at Substack.

American Haiku: Sequel Baiting.

Finding My Worse Self, Part Seven: Haze. Read it on my Patreon.

The Stone Soup Croutons poem from April 8 is now up. Read "Where do You Go Now?" 

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