Hope I’m only an Imagist

Posted on 2025-08-18 by Bartholomew Barker

I am delighted to report that two of my poems have been published today.

Hope posted to the revived Whispers and Echoes. Thanks, Sammi! I adapted the first line, A little bird slammed into my window, mistaking it for the sky, as a Fraiku earlier this year.

And I’m only an Imagist when I can’t come up with a metaphor appears on The Beatnik Cowboy. Thanks, Chris & Randall! This is my first time on Beatnik Cowboy and I hope it won’t be my last. This poem was written just a couple of month ago and starts, The air is pungent with humidity. Thunder stumbles across the sky.

All my readers should check out not just my two previously unpublished works but both these fine publications. And, if you’re a poet, consider submitted to them as well.

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About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. 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 lives and writes poetry.
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18 Responses to Hope I’m only an Imagist

  1. JeanMarie's avatar JeanMarie says:
    2025-08-19 at 02:14

    Congratulations!

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  2. Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris's avatar Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris says:
    2025-08-19 at 06:21

    Congratulations Bartholomew !! Great pieces, well worth the honors!!!

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  3. Ephemeral Encounters's avatar Ephemeral Encounters says:
    2025-08-19 at 07:03

    Congratulations Bart.

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  4. magickmermaid's avatar magickmermaid says:
    2025-08-19 at 10:02

    Congratulations x 2! Well done!

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  6. poetisatinta's avatar poetisatinta says:
    2025-08-19 at 11:49

    Congrats Bart 🎉🥳

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  7. Dawn Pisturino's avatar Dawn Pisturino says:
    2025-08-20 at 12:58

    Congratulations!

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  8. Stacey C. Johnson's avatar Stacey C. Johnson says:
    2025-08-24 at 09:28

    Yaaaay! : )

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