Penny Wagers

Spending 84 hours in the woods without food, proper shelter or my own baggage. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

A short poem about navigating through the Doldrums. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

A modern English adaptation of a very old song of the sea—perhaps one of the first. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may." — Robert Herrick Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

Photos from 24 hours of no screens, circumnavigating the peninsula. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

Vocational aphorisms from a comically unreliable source. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

Gleanings from four decades of skipping rocks. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

They used to work together, back in the long ago. But no one remembers that time. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

A triolet about what is perhaps our most common mistake: looking around and presuming that's all there is. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

Not all that's golden is glorious. Not all those who wander are welcome. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

Late-night lines of inquiry can often do more harm than good. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

Before the bright-clad King, someone far stranger skulked the land. In fact, he still does. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

They say that mirrors only reflect what stands before them. But there's usually more to it. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

Flowing water's always fresher than stagnant pools. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

You don’t have to lose your head to the Midday Maiden. You could always pick flowers and dance. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

You can meet the strangest people at one of the last remaining A&W locations still in operation on the East Coast. Sometimes they aren't even people. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

Caelyn Snyder recently posted her poetic duel with Hannah R . I for one am glad to see the practice re-explored, and if you haven’t read them, please do check them out. (I’m more of a night owl myself). For ours below, Nik got things going with his ode to the moon, in which I responded in kind. I don’t want to speak too much to either and let you read them for yourself, but I did want to mention t...

Stories, not stone, provide the bedrock of our towns and cities. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

You've got an ally down there in your depths. Just remember to treat him as such. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

A local story—and a challenge. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

What will you find out there behind the veil? Here's what I found. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

Oral storytelling used to be everywhere. Bartenders and tradesmen used to do it. Grandmothers and farmers. It used to be that everyone you’d meet would have at least a few in them and could on occasion tell and share them. I think this tradition has been very misunderstood, however. We hear about storytelling and we think, “oh yes, fairy tales! Oral storytelling. Yes, I know all about that. It was...

A short poem about what we're walking toward. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

You’ve met them before—and you’ll do so again. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe

A sonnet for Clara A. Rager. Get full access to Penny Wagers at pennywagers.substack.com/subscribe