Chad Parenteau: Poet for Hire

 

The Poet for Hire Has Online Clippings


From Backwards City Review
"The Dead Won't Stop Moving" (online exclusive, poetry contest finalist).

From Boston Poet
"The Hidden Man" from 2003, recently added again to the revamped site.

From Concelebratory Shoehorn Review
"Alumni," "Child At The Pet Store," "Housewarming Tips," "Poem" and "Jealousy" from the March 2008 issue.

From Fox Chase Review
"Phone Tag" and "Mom's Birthday" from the 2008 Autumn/Winter issue.
"Our Only Dance" from the 2008 Winter/Spring issue.

From Meritage Press
"Bye to Summer" from the April 2004 "Babaylan Speaks" column.

From The November 3rd Club
"Ford, Hussein, and Pinochet With The River Styx as Their Water Cooler" from the Spring 2007 issue.
"Sarcastic Haiku 38: America's New Optimism" from the Fall 2006 issue.

From The Out of The Blue Website
"First In A Series," "Gathering," and my "Lonely People Haiku" appeared on the site in August of 2008.

From PoemHunter.com
"First In A Series" and "The Cup" are old standards I decided to post here.

From The Poets Against War Website
"For the Cheerleaders of War, Halftime in Iraq, 2003," written and submitted in February, 2003.

From Round Online
Two of my "Sarcastic Haiku" are in this issue's "We Love Haiku" section, sans titles.
"My Leader" from the Parody issue (a riff on Allen Ginsburg's America, on the eve of Bush's re-election).

From Shampoo
"Our Metaphors Are Still From Earth" from 29.
"Sarcastic Haiku, 1-3" from 17.
"They Say I Should Be Used To It" from 14.

From The Somerville News
"Sonnet From Ginsburg" posted in January 2005, published in the February 2005 print edition.

From Spoonful
"Hail" from Issue #3.
"Poetry Isn't Everything" from Issue #1.
"Rat Poem" from Issue #0.

From U.M.Ph.! Prose
"Boston Haiku Cults" and "Celtics Poem" are in Issue #4.

From Verbophobia
"Why I'm Not Zen" from December 2003.

From Wilderness House Literary Review
"It's A Start" from Volume 4, Issue 3.
"Important Notice," from Volume 2, Issue 3.
"Haiku" from Volume 2, Issue 2.

From Wolf Moon Journal
"Men and Mice (Listed Here Alphabetically, To Be Fair)  from issue 10.
"Summer Wish" from issue 8.

 
 
Website Exclusives 

"No Beads" and "Fighting Stance" were written for Mike Amado, a fellow poet and friend who passed away in 2009.