Rich Puchalsky's blog
Friday, April 24, 2026
The Rock
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(This was the lead poem in my chapbook "a model of the universe", published 2014). It started with rock Large, grey-streaked ...
Sunday, April 5, 2026
In which I read my poems
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April is Poetry Month in the US and on the 2nd I decided on the spur of the moment to link to or post one of my poems on Mastodon every day ...
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Why the Niemöller "Poem" is bad
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It's a "poem", everyone knows it, everyone is currently wallowing in it, it's bad. Why the scare quotes around "poe...
Sunday, November 17, 2024
_Oil Beach_ by Christina Dunbar-Hester
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The very first thing in this book is a quote from Mike Davis' _City of Quartz_, and whatever interdisciplinary area of shelving that is...
Friday, June 21, 2024
The Time of Monsters (part 3)
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(second part of the series is here ) Synthesis So there are two implicit referential strands in Delicious in Dungeon: Lovecraft and Tolki...
Thursday, June 20, 2024
The Time of Monsters (part 2)
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(first part is here ) Can you eat Ents? The reason why a Lovecraftian reading of Delicious in Dungeon is incomplete is because the series ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
The Time of Monsters (part 1)
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"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." This is an extended critical pie...
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