When I Die on Bulb Culture Collective

Posted on 2024/01/13 by Bartholomew Barker

I’m pleased to announced that one of my old poems, When I Die, has been republished at Bulb Culture Collective. My thanks to L. M. and Jared for accepting this reprint.

I’m pretty sure I wrote When I Die in 2012. I know for sure it was first published at the dearly departed Post Card Poems and Prose in 2015. Bulb Culture Collective specializes poems previously published by journals that have since gone dark or where the work is no longer available online. Once they reopen for submissions, I encourage all my poetry friends will send them their long forgotten poems.

About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is one of the organizers of Living Poetry, a collection of poets and poetry lovers in the Triangle region of North Carolina. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he makes money as a computer programmer to fund his poetry habit.
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25 Responses to When I Die on Bulb Culture Collective

  1. Kate says:
    2024/01/13 at 20:36

    Congratulations, Bartholomew. Love your poem, and that last verse—
    Then enjoy the final silence
    of ocean under waves
    body settling to sand
    far below the cold cold wind—
    Dark and peaceful. 🖤
    And your bio…what can I say? 😆

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  2. Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris says:
    2024/01/13 at 23:40

    Great news Bartholomew!! 😊

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  3. Michele Lee says:
    2024/01/14 at 00:35

    Congrats Bart! 👏🏻

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  4. pensivepoetblog says:
    2024/01/14 at 00:54

    Sounds almost cozy.

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  5. Cassa Bassa says:
    2024/01/15 at 13:45

    Letting go in water is peaceful, the calm before death perhaps.

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  6. Dawn Pisturino says:
    2024/01/16 at 12:21

    Congratulations!

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  7. JeanMarie says:
    2024/01/29 at 16:44

    I went back to read the poem again. This time the bio caught my eye. There’s a typo on the first sentence… oh no there is not. Very clever and funny! Write more like that. I need the laughs

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  8. Chico’s Mom says:
    2024/01/29 at 19:38

    Congratulations

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