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

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11/30/23

Submit to The Christmas Wars at Oddball Magazine.
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Here's Stone Soup Poetry's online all-open mic from November 29 with special feature Dan Provost.

The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for November 29 is up now at Substack.

American Haiku: Trump as Armchair Conqueror.

Listen to me and Jason Wright on The Week That Was (November 20-24, 2023) for Oddball Magazine.

I made it! Part Fifty of my Tuesday Poem series is up now on my Patreon! Subscribe to read all my paywall work!

Thankfully Regretful: My Ten Years of Editing Oddball Magazine.

The bottom of my Writing section now has articles directly linked to the revamped Lollipop website.

​The Stone Soup Croutons poem from November 15 is now up. Read "Bundling Up for Discontent."

Buy a mug with my haiku 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