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Let Other Hounds (Fernwood 2026) Oklahoma Poems Title TBD (Lily Poetry Review Books 2027) The Edited Tongue (Bottlecap 2025)

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IF you missed me and LOH in Portland, Los Angeles, Malibu, Oklahoma City, Tidewater, Woody Fest, and Passyunk, PA.........then please join us virtually Sat., OCT 17 at 11 am Eastern.

The reading will be hosted by Brookline Church of Christ, Brookline, Mass. where Alice and I are members of the hybrid worship community.

I'm eager to share this book of poems and for the conversation and interview to follow with award-winning Long Island poet and Brookline minister, Bethany Moore.

TM me or Bethany for the link. All welcome. by @scott_lamascus

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a lovely, hefty book that looks and feels great in my hand. Melanie and I have been together every month in a virtual writers group since 2020. We have job-bobbed at AWP. We've hosted her family in our home here in OKC. And I'm delighted. -- more later, but Shanti Arts has helped her make the book every poet I know would like to write -- juicy into, bibliography, notes to the poems and generous layout. -- The lullabies! If "Twinkle, Twinkle" was your last encounter as an exhausted parent with a fussy sleeper, these poems may change your mind about the overlooked and long-lived form. (Ever wondered what Eve sang to her children?) And they're the work of a sophisticated mind (China, theological depth, MFA informed, etc.). -- You gotta read this! by @scott_lamascus

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Loved these in my Grandmother's garden...some even bigger that a saucer. by @scott_lamascus

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Preparing an estate sale of 5 generations of sportsmen. Wow. Who knew? Six tackle boxes, 20 rods and reels. Really?

I miss Dad most singing, "How Great Thou Art" (the song he was singing to himself when he caught Mom's ear first) AND when I'm handling his sporting goods collection.

Texoma. Montana. Canada. His family fished and hunted in the Dust Bowl and Depression to eat. Then, by the time I came along, it was still a passion, pastime, and a way of life for family, always tagged, permitted, and in season. My Grandfathers respected conservation because they saw the topsoil blowed away and the land scarred by the Wildcatters generation before them. Bag limits were there to ensure quail for my generation.

Missing Dad....curses to you, ALS. by @scott_lamascus

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Carly Bedford's work is currently in the OC Gallery and it's clear she's an Oklahoma artist to watch! She's getting selected by juries and invited for galleries. Alice and I treasure our friendship with Carly and Tanner, whose creativity is matched by so many strengths and qualities. We're grateful to have the chance to learn from them.

Inquire for her amazing work at CarlyBedfordArt@gmail.com. by @scott_lamascus

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Just what our age of anxiety needs! Sleep better with these poems. by @scott_lamascus

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Sad occasions bring us together now -- like Saturday's memorial for Sherry Alexander Bingham -- but it's always a delight to see former students. And a joy to see them supporting their classmates in times of grief. Here are 2 pics from happier times -- fed up to me by my FB function, which saw me posting and texting some of these former students and pushed the pics to me from 13 years ago! Loved my storybook career in English and Honors at OU, GSW, and OC. What world-changers I learned from as their prof. by @scott_lamascus

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Mending never really went away. Aprons. Fences. Levi's frazzled at the hem. But for a moment the world went mad for breaking things, no heed for mending or rebuilding.

Our son, Parker, and friend Melanie have both inspired me to think about kintsugi and sashiko.

Get Melanie's new book, ya'll.

Host a mending party for your birthday! Parker did and his friends loved it!

It's an old thing to make beautiful things of scraps and bits and frazzled things aplenty. Go see the PMOA exhibit on quilts -- and enjoy Burch-Mankin and Lowe-LaMascus examples from our house! by @scott_lamascus

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Angela Smith Hooper leads us, the featured readers are wonderful and the audience loves on first-timers and regulars alike. Join us? I'm so lucky to call Full Circle books and 4th Sundays poetry my "local" watering hole for books, poetry and coffee. by @scott_lamascus

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Tuesday night writers: optional participation is to bring a printed item 50 years old or older. These ephemera will be on view, along with my private collection of items, as inspiration for all writers as part of my writing prompt.

(Each piece of ephemera will go home with the person who brought it, so don't worry about your items.)

-- 6-8 pm in The Brew, 2nd floor of Mabee Center, 2501 E. Memorial, OKC. All welcome! by @scott_lamascus

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I'd promised it to our kids when we were back there with them in 2023. In May 2026, they chose U.S.-Portuguese infusion for their wedding banquet in another seaside city -- Portland, Maine. DOURO, 110 Thames. It's magnificent. Eat there soon! by @scott_lamascus

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Join us!? Discovering poets or dedicated beginners, published or bestsellers. We're all eager to explore new ways of writing poetry. by @scott_lamascus

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