2025 publication and non-publication recap

Some places I put myself this year, and some places others:

Published two full-length collections:

TELL 5PM IT'S GOD SOMEWHERE
poems, Barton Smock
125 pages
October 2025
cover image by Noah Michael Smock
selection from the work

angel tantrum
poems, Barton Smock
171 pages
April 2025
cover image by Noah Michael Smock
selection from the work

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Re-published an older collection with a new cover image:

naked in dog years
poems, Barton Smock
55 pages
April 2024
new cover image by Noah Michael Smock
selection from the work

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Did a reading of my latest two full-length collections

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Had three entries in the scaffold top 50 microwritings of 2024

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Combined four of my older collections into a single publication to include:

My first chapbook, infant*cinema, published originally by Dink Press (now defunct) in April of 2016

A collection, shuteye in the land of the sacred commoner, self-published as a footnote to infant*cinema in June of 2016

A chapbook, Skin To Skin In An Unmarked Life, published originally by Trainwreck Press (now defunct) in March of 2021

A full-length, Ghost Arson, originally published by Kung Fu Treachery Press in December of 2018, but no longer available there.

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Had the musician MIDI Janitor include my collection '57 Letters to Ethan Hawke' in his book selection entry for Ammel

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Had an entry included in Mercurius Magazine's 'The Surreal-Absurd: An Anthology of Contemporary Surrealist and Absurdist Poetry' 

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Had a poem of mine appreciated in an entry at Tom Snarsky's substack Pier's End