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In his 14th poetry collection, Bledsoe explores the emotional impact of the pandemic using a sardonic sense of humor contrasted with sincere observations, creating an intense emotional experience. His poems range from personal anecdotes about his childhood and adult life, to surreal portraits that explore significant themes of alienation and love. Similar in scope to The Bottle Episode, B Sides and Rarities is a moving commentary on the state ...

In their second collaborative poetry collection, Michael Gushue and CL Bledsoe bring us suspect tales and untethered allegories from the life of Judy, a modern day demigoddess who wants to f*ck sh*t up while having a sensible yet tasty breakfast. From tragic beginnings to tragic 80s hair, she searches for love and peace of mind in a world she fears is increasingly beyond saving. But it's the one with the best snacks and--every once in a while-...

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Dog-Adoption bureaucrats, psychotic deer, lonely magical creatures who just want to hang out and maybe eat your kids, the stories of CL Bledsoe are often strange and always entertaining. Whether they're summoning a demon to get out of having to go to work or trying to escape from Santa's labor camp, the characters in Bledsoe's stories weirdly relatable while living in unfamiliar worlds. These stories span Bledsoe's career from the beginning up...

In his twelfth poetry collection, CL Bledsoe uses absurdity to explore the landscape of his own grief and to come to terms with the question of how to live in the world as a moral being. At times funny, at times tragic, Bledsoe's poems explore existential questions with the wit he's become known for.

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In their second collaborative poetry collection, Michael Gushue and CL Bledsoe bring us suspect tales and untethered allegories from the life of Judy, a modern day demigoddess who wants to f*ck sh*t up while having a sensible yet tasty breakfast. From tragic beginnings to tragic 80s hair, she searches for love and peace of mind in a world she fears is increasingly beyond saving. But it's the one with the best snacks and--every once in a while-...

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ÒC.L. BledsoeÕs savage, hallucinatory, and ironic third chapbook Ñ Leap Year by Red Ceilings Press Ñ opens a window into the mind of the insane. Taken as a whole, which is clearly the intent Ð each of the 29 poems is titled with the date, as if the book is a journal written in February of a leap year ÂÐ the book reveals day-to-day life in a mental institution, blending black humor with the isolation and humiliation of an imaginative, wry speak...

Your friend invites you to his new theme park he's opening in his back yard. Your wife has a plan to make scarves out of animals like that pop star she saw on TV wears and sell them at the flea market. A heartbroken dinosaur won't get off your couch since he broke up with his girlfriend. An apocalypse of ladybugs threatens all of humanity. The flash fiction stories in CL Bledsoe's second collection range from the surreal to the funny to the de...

The poems in CL Bledsoe's fifth collection are at turns funny and tragic, self-deprecating and deeply personal, as readers have come to expect from the author of the autobiographical collection Riceland. In Trashcans In Love, Bledsoe continues to write about the Arkansas Delta of his youth, where "we were...all looking for a place/to stick our hearts for safe-keeping" while "the boarded-over windows/of our mothers' eyes watched from graves hal...

King of Loneliness presents innovative and accessible poems about a 21st century America caught between irony and anxiety. In his fifth book of poetry, Bledsoe uses humor and an honest eye to tour a republic whose citizens have been uprooted by media saturation, political absurdity, and personal uncertainty.