Mike Hammer

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

44779 Street - Ohio Poetry Day poem from Mike Hammer

Mike Hammer's entry for the Small Worlds contest in Ohio Poetry Day 2024

44779 Street

House. Show. Tonight.

A grand piano

in a tiny living room.

Eye Vree Tickla is on tour.

I am the one humming along.

i was recognized as an Honorable Mention for this poem

i do not usually do form poetry

but this contest was sponsored by my friend, writer Rhonda Baughman

so i chose to enter to support her

the contest guidelines were to enter a 5 line poem that is in the tanka or limerick or cinqain form

i chose the tanka form, and wrote a modified tanka, which is a traditional 5 line Japanese poem, a 'short song'

according to poets.org

the tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as “short song,” and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form.

Friday, March 11, 2022

check out my story in Medium Chill magazine

check out my story Charles Bukowski still doesn’t have a statue, and he talks about it, from the afterlife: 27 years after he died, Bukowski gives me an interview - from Purgatory Bukowski confirms the existence of God and makes an educated guess that humans are about to die in Issue 7 of Medium Chill magazine, available now on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/.../dp/B09TDZQVDP/ref=mp_s_a_1_3... MEDIUM CHILL issue 7 nestled in a warm, dark spot and available on Amazon! ♾❤️♾ #Writers featured include Douglas Waltz, Jay Charles, Mike Hammer, Jason Simon, Fred 588, Robert Beveridge, Aaron AuBuchon, yours truly solo and with fave collaborator Huston B.! #Artwork from Stew Miller and Panty Puzzle! This issue features #fiction and #poetry but also represents the series foray into #nonfiction with my brief chats with movie buff and writer/director Andrew Bonazelli and ‘Drugstore Cowboy’ #screenwriter Daniel Yost. https://www.amazon.com/.../dp/B09TDZQVDP/ref=mp_s_a_1_3 ... #Amazon

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

2020 Walk n' Roll to Cure Ataxia website

National Ataxia Foundation is planning a virtual Walk n' Roll to Cure Ataxia for everyone across the country, for everyone to visit the same webpage in October for a virtual event.
Details and ideas to help promoting the virtual event and help gather donations and donate to the National Ataxia Foundation will be posted in the future. So stay tuned. For now please visit www.ataxia.org/WalkNEO

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Hello NEO Walk n’ Roll to Cure Ataxia supporters,

We have exciting news for the 2020 Walk n’ Roll to Cure Ataxias, the National Ataxia Foundation will be hosting an online virtual Walk n’ Roll to Cure Ataxia online this year. The date being targetted is Oct. 3 for about 90 minutes and the NEO support group will take part. Supporters will be able to win raffle items and donate money.

Because NAF and all of us event organizers across the country are unsure about the ability to have a mass gathering event, the Walk n’ Roll to Cure Ataxia events will all be combined into one and streamed online this year. We will all be able to visit a website and watch speakers from the Ataxia community and participants from all over the country, and donate via credit card or debit card, etc. by clicking on a button on the website.

The NEO support group may have our own online streaming event after the online virtual Walk n' Roll from NAF or we may do something else. Anyone who has ideas or would like to be involved in planning please contact us, we will let you know when all specifics are finalized.

Thanks

Saturday, April 20, 2019

Sign up and start fundraising now for the 2019 NEO Walk n Roll to Cure Ataxia

The 2019 NEO Walk n Roll to Cure Ataxia is set for Sept 22 at Lakewood Park.
Visit the event website now

https://app.mobilecause.com/vf/AtaxiaWalkOH

and sign up as a fundraiser and create a team, and link all your family and friends to your team so they donate and attend the event

if you have any questions about how to register and set up your page and create a team and raise funds contact us and we will help you get rolling.

- Mike Hammer
mikey.hammer@gmail.com
440.961.0343