Iron Man Family Outing enters top 10 poetry books by United States authors on...
My book, Iron Man Family Outing, continues to receive positive reviews from readers and is now ranked number 10 in the top poetry books by United States authors on Amazon.com based on customer reviews.
View ArticleIron Man Family Outing recommended at Kellevision
I was pleasantly surprised to find out recently that my book, Iron Man Family Outing, had been recommended in a post entitled “Books Written For and About Men” by therapist Kellen Von Houser on her...
View ArticleIron Man Family Outing – August Book of the Month at The Mindful Beat
I’m very pleased that my book, Iron Man Family Outing, has been selected as the Book of the Month for August 2009 on psychotherapist Rebecca Lincoln’s blog, The Mindful Beat. Rebecca features a book...
View ArticlePreviewing my new book: Scapegoat’s Cross
I’m pleased to announce the completion of the manuscript for my second book. Scapegoat’s Cross: Poems about Finding and Reclaiming the Lost Man Within is both a companion and a follow-up to my first...
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I'm the judas I'm the traitor I'm the one who told. I'm the scapegoat I'm the mole I'm the one they blame. I'm the one who wouldn't pretend I'm the one who wouldn't buy in I'm the one who broke the...
View ArticleTwo years ago today …
Two years ago today, I woke up on a Sunday morning, the day after an important conversation with someone close, and wrote the following letter: Hello, I’m writing to offer you a complimentary copy of...
View ArticleIron Man Family Outing reviewed at Men’s Well-Being
Dr. Phil Tyson, a Manchester UK psychotherapist who specializes in working with men and men’s issues, recently posted his review of my book, Iron Man Family Outing, on his blog, Men’s Well-Being. He...
View ArticleTrisha Freeman –“a single thought”
Here’s a great little piece I discovered last month from poet Trisha Freeman. It stirs up a world of memory and feeling in me every time I read it. a single thought a newspaper rustles a ball bounces...
View ArticleKathleen Freeman –“House Rules”
Kathleen Freeman is a poet in the UK who’s recently been posting some incredibly lovely, vital work on her blog in a series of poems entitled “Legacy for a two year old”. Today I’m featuring a very...
View ArticleThe poetry slaves
One day at work, I daydreamed an alternate reality in which techno skills were considered valueless and everyone had to write poetry to make a living. The techno people in my alternate reality were not...
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Lost my words
At my last job, there was a fridge in the break room covered with those little word magnets known as poetry magnets. During my first couple of months, I’d wander in there most every day, usually late...
View ArticlePoetry on video: Seven poems from Iron Man Family Outing
I’ve created a playlist on my YouTube channel (rickbeldenpoet) for the video readings I made a while back of poems from my first book, Iron Man Family Outing: Poems about Transition into a More...
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20 in 2012
What follows is a list of the twenty new poems I completed in 2012. Fifteen of these were new as in “written in full in 2012″ and the other five were started in a previous year (as far back as 2009),...
View ArticlePoetry on video: Seven poems from Scapegoat’s Cross
I’ve created a playlist on my YouTube channel (rickbeldenpoet) for the video readings I made a while back of poems from my second (still unpublished) book, Scapegoat’s Cross: Poems about Finding and...
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Poem of the Issue – Austin Chronicle 03/01/13
My poem “in ptsd” is the featured “Poem of the Issue” in this week’s edition of The Austin Chronicle.
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New book features my poem “fused at the wound”
My poem “fused at the wound” from my first book, Iron Man Family Outing, will soon be appearing in a new book called The Human Magnet Syndrome: Why We Love People Who Hurt Us by Ross Rosenberg. Ross...
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Painful projections
Last December, I published a post titled “A male survivor’s perspective on ‘rape culture’” in which I wrote about attending my first group for male survivors of childhood sexual abuse at the local...
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Poem of the Issue – Austin Chronicle 05/10/13
My poem “losing self” is the featured “Poem of the Issue” in this week’s edition of The Austin Chronicle.
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Poem of the Issue – Austin Chronicle 07/05/13
My new poem “crooked zen”, written just six days ago, is the featured “Poem of the Issue” in this week’s edition of The Austin Chronicle.
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Poetry emergence 2013
Last year at this time, I published a post called “20 in 2012″ in which I shared a list of the twenty new poems I’d written in 2012. In introducing that list, I said: Twenty poems doesn’t seem like...
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