Dead Dad Jokes

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Ollie Schminkey, 2021

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poemsforthesehours
12/08/23
From ollieschminkey's book, Dead Dad Jokes. buttonpoetry #poem #neilhilborn #poetic #poetrybooks #poemsofig #poetrymatters #poetrylibrary #dailypoems #poetry #poeticcommunity #poetryisnotdead #poetrylovers #poetrygram #ollieschminkey #poetryislife #poemsofinstagram #poets #apoemaday
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ollieschminkey
04/27/23
TOMORROW!! I can't wait!! There are still a few tickets left, so get yours today: tinyurl.com/MidwestMashUp And a HUGE thank you to all of the organizations that helped make Midwest Poetry Mash-Up a reality this year: @strike_theater , @buttonpoetry , and @diamondscoffeeshoppe ! See you there!! #poetry #events #tournament #midwestpoetrymashup #instapoetry #poetsofinstagram
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ollieschminkey
04/27/23
TOMORROW!! I can't wait!! There are still a few tickets left, so get yours today: tinyurl.com/MidwestMashUp And a HUGE thank you to all of the organizations that helped make Midwest Poetry Mash-Up a reality this year: @strike_theater , @buttonpoetry , and @diamondscoffeeshoppe ! See you there!! #poetry #events #tournament #midwestpoetrymashup #instapoetry #poetsofinstagram
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do.pike
02/02/23
THE FIRST BIRTHDAY HE IS NOT ALIVE we all order his favorite drink. we forget the hole he punched in the door. the hole he shot through the dog. he was so good at making holes, except when it came time to dig one for his body. there could be bones mixed in with our flour, and we would never even know. we could be eating cookies, and he could be dead inside our mouths. it feels stupid to be sad when he was mean for so long. he only got nice when he was dying, and i don't know if that counts as becoming a better person. sometimes, i imagine him watching over me, and i hide. • Ollie Schminkey: Dead Dad Jokes Založba: Button Poetry, 2021 buttonpoetry #poezija #ollieschminkey #deaddadjokes #buttonpoetry #poetry #literatura #literature #berem #reading #dopike
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ollieschminkey
05/10/22
Dead Dad Jokes has received not one but THREE distinctions from the Eric Hoffer Awards!! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported my work and believed in this project! If you haven't yet snagged your copy, there's a link in my bio 🥰 And many thanks to @buttonpoetry for being the best press ever!! #winnerbaby #erichoffer #bookawards #deaddadjokes #shortlist #finalist #books #transauthor #queerauthor #deaddadclub
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smittenbystories
03/22/22
Been taking many poetry detours in my reading this month. Almost immediately after finishing Dead Dad Jokes I promptly wrote a dead dad poem of my own (which I haven’t done in a long, long time). It’s been over ten years and I don’t think I’ll ever really be over it. He was 54, too, and an alcoholic until ~3 years before he was gone. That said, it is a special kind of comfort to sit in your dormant sadness with a book, song, or movie that seems to speak your grief’s language. Massively comforting in an odd way. Grateful for this one.
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curiositybcn
01/16/22
Just received a beautiful bundle of poetry! I found the publisher buttonpoetry through 'Depression and Other Magic Tricks' (badass_sab), which discovered me alongside 'Hold your Own' (Kaetempest) in waterstones a few years ago, and made me late for the hairdressers! It was a moment so captivating I wrote a poem about it titled ‘Submission’, published by the prostibulopoetico in the #librorojo. I adore what Button do - accessible and gorgeous performance poetry by diverse poets in beautiful bindings. **************** *Submission* It began: caterpillar trails on moleskin yielding to the slap of keys, fevers of printer ink. It began: with you wrapped in brown paper, bound with metal clips, passed palm to palm until the right pair of eyes tore you open spilling blistered velvet, crackling dust, chocolate salt. It began: and since that moment in the bookshop café after a Japanese hipster left you naked on the table and my curiosity held your spine and made me late for the hairdressers; it is I whose eyes dilate as they stroke your form, who watches breath arrested as your black moths settle on my conscience, whose blood thrusts with your metre, who kneels at your stanza and begs for line breaks that smack my thighs. It began: with larvae begging for blood and breath and the beating of creation. **************** #readingpoetryinbed #paperbackpoetrylover #readpoetryplease #poetryrebellion #neveralonewithapoem #darlingsandlovelies #performancepoetry #spokenword #poetrybrothel #poetrycommunity #invisiblerevolution #buttonpoetry #sabrinabenaim #kaetempest #waterstones
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nextchapterbooksellers
10/12/21
Join us tonight at 5:30 when Ollie Schminkey discusses their book "Dead Dad Jokes." Schminkey's poems about family, loss, addiction, and trauma are raw, honest and unforgettable.⁠ ⁠ "I am thankful for a book like this one, which is unafraid to return to a site of ache and continue in attempts to illuminate it — with some joy, with some gratitude, and without shame."-- Hanif Abdurraqib, author of "A Fortune For Your Disaster"⁠ ⁠ https://bit.ly/Schminkey⁠ ⁠ #werecommendbooks ollieschminkey buttonpoetry
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ari.macquarie
07/31/21
book haul part 2 of 2 ✨ special thanks to bnashevillemall mrk.asheville buttonpoetry for the selections! tags: #bookstagram #booktube #booktok #authorsofinstagram #authortube #authortok #bookhaul #bookhoarder #lgbtq #nonbinary #ashevillenc
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ollieschminkey
07/08/21
I've been taking my book with me to places I think my dad would have liked to go 💛 Here we are picking agates at Moose Lake! This book is so special to me, and I'd love it if you gave it a read (link in bio) @buttonpoetry #author #deaddadjokes #deaddadclub #poetry #poetrybooks #transauthor #queerauthor #grief #booksaboutgrief
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ollieschminkey
07/08/21
I've been taking my book with me to places I think my dad would have liked to go 💛 Here we are picking agates at Moose Lake! This book is so special to me, and I'd love it if you gave it a read (link in bio) @buttonpoetry #author #deaddadjokes #deaddadclub #poetry #poetrybooks #transauthor #queerauthor #grief #booksaboutgrief
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xbloodborn
06/28/21
when I tell you I’m ✨beyond excited✨to start reading this book of poems, it’s an understatement. thank you so much to my brother, miserysyearning for surprising me with it, and thank you ollieschminkey and buttonpoetry for bringing this experience to life. my stepdad has been gone for 6 years now, I was his primary caretaker as he battled stage 4 metastatic lung cancer and I know this book is going to be a whirlwind of emotions as I’ve only made it through the first poem and already was misty eyed. 🖤
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xbloodborn
06/28/21
when I tell you I’m ✨beyond excited✨to start reading this book of poems, it’s an understatement. thank you so much to my brother, miserysyearning for surprising me with it, and thank you ollieschminkey and buttonpoetry for bringing this experience to life. my stepdad has been gone for 6 years now, I was his primary caretaker as he battled stage 4 metastatic lung cancer and I know this book is going to be a whirlwind of emotions as I’ve only made it through the first poem and already was misty eyed. 🖤
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teeks.jpg
06/08/21
I gotta admit, this is a hard read- but it is phenomenal and I highly recommend it. ollieschminkey . . . #buttonpoetry buttonpoetry
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06/08/21
I gotta admit, this is a hard read- but it is phenomenal and I highly recommend it. ollieschminkey . . . #buttonpoetry buttonpoetry
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06/08/21
I gotta admit, this is a hard read- but it is phenomenal and I highly recommend it. ollieschminkey . . . #buttonpoetry buttonpoetry
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lizismundane
06/04/21
Happy Poetry Friday, now from Massachusetts! I've been in the state for three whole days, and I love it so much. Something about this place just feels right to me. . This week I read Dead Dad Jokes, sent to me from buttonpoetry . It was definitely a cathartic read! It's all about grief, dying, and queerness. The letter rings with truth and power, but it is not a light read by any means. . #poetryfridays #poetry #bookstagram #queer #queerbooks #deaddadjokes
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ollieschminkey
06/03/21
It is just literally so cool to see my book on the @buttonpoetry shelf, on the same dang shelf as these very, very cool people like @nifmuhammad and @kevin_kantor (who both wrote amazing blurbs for the back of my book, thank you forever 🥰) not to mention literal dreams like @danez_smif and @guantesolo 💛 if I tagged everyone who I deeply respect that's on this bookshelf, it would just be a list of names and no one would like me for being so spammy, but seriously, every single one of the poets on this shelf is a powerhouse (and I'm just saying maybe your own bookshelf could use a glow up). #author #poetry #instapoet #poetsofinstagram #transpoet #transauthor #deaddadjokes #deaddadclub #book
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ollieschminkey
05/29/21
Signed a couple (hundred) more books for all of you! 💛 Signed copies are back up on the @buttonpoetry website! Thank you so much to everyone who has bought a copy so far! 🦌📚🥰 #author #deaddadjokes #poetsofinstagram #queerauthor #transauthor #instapoet #books #poetry
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ollieschminkey
05/29/21
Signed a couple (hundred) more books for all of you! 💛 Signed copies are back up on the @buttonpoetry website! Thank you so much to everyone who has bought a copy so far! 🦌📚🥰 #author #deaddadjokes #poetsofinstagram #queerauthor #transauthor #instapoet #books #poetry
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flamingolegsreads
05/25/21
REVIEW 🌟 DEAD DAD JOKES By Oliver Schminkey! This is a book of poetry that can only be described as TRULY UNFLINCHING. It took a mans grief and revealed all of it as it is, like the rambles of a drunk man from a sober mouth; each poem is real, scarring, relatable. It’s a moment of grief where you can’t explain the pain and you just describe everything in 1000 seconds, this book is like that. It’s kinda angry and tearful but I really enjoyed the experience of a good poem feeling like I was being bruised. I will say it’s a poetry book I’d only be able to go back to after having quite a distance from it, I think that there’s a really intense heaviness in these pages that’s fantastic but hard to carry without breaks in between! I wanna thank netgalley & buttonpoetry for an arc of this very raw book! IT WAS RELEASED TODAY! ☀️ 7/10 🌙 #bookstagram #book #books #bookstagrammer #bookblog #bookblogger #bookcommunity #bookreviews #booklover #booknerd #bookworm #booksbooksbooks #bookaholic #booksofinstagram #collageart #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookaccount #bookedit #arc #arcbook #arcreview #bookreviee #buttonpoetry #poetry #grief #reader #netgalley #proofcooy #review
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tarotcassandra
05/25/21
Hello! Today is the release day of "Dead Dad Jokes" by ollieschminkey published by buttonpoetry and wow wow wow it is so so good omg. This is a poetry book about the relatively recent loss of their father and all of the complicated emotions that come with that. A disclaimer is that Ollie and I are friends, have tabled at events together and they were even on the board for my theatre company for awhile. I've also been a fan for even longer though, way back when they were making words & songs fly off the stage and into our guts at the original run of OutSpoken. But I also read a lot of poetry and am friends with a LOT of talented poets. Like truly a wild amount for someone who is not good at all at it and has no desire for you to ever see their poems! What Ollie has done with this poetry book is so special and so masterful though. They took all of the rage, grief & discomfort and clashing feelings of losing a parent you had a tumultuous relationship with and turned into something so tangible I could feel the sadness, the grotesqueness, the anger and at times, the peace and joy as if it were my own. This one does come with some content warnings about the literal gross-ness of death and dying in animals and humans which is NOT a critique and that stuff should be there. It's part of what gives the book the voice it has. But I also know that will cut some people out of readership. For the rest of us, this is art in its truest form and yet it is completely readable if you like poetry but struggle to process or understand it. You will understand this. I promise. #deaddadjokes #ollieschminkey #buttonpoetry #chapbooks #currentlyreading #whatimreading #books #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover
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ollieschminkey
05/25/21
Today is Dead Dad Joke’s official release day, and I am feeling so many things!!! I wrote this book to be the book that I needed to read when my dad was dying-- a book that shows everything, uses no euphemisms, and makes no apologies (except, of course, the ones I needed to make).  This book means more to me than I could ever say, and the fact that it might mean something to you too makes me want to cry.  I wrote this book because I felt so alone in the dying and the grief, and getting to share it makes it hurt less somehow.   Making this book has been the absolute best thing about my year, and I am exhilarated to share it with all of you. I am beyond grateful to everyone who has supported my work throughout the years and to @buttonpoetry for publishing this doozy of a book.  To my book, happy birthday!  To my dad, I still take you with me on every road trip. To everyone in the dead dad club, I love you, forever.  It would mean a lot to me if you gave it a read 💛 (link in bio) #deaddadclub #deaddadjokes #author #poetry #instapoet #poetsofinstagram #pubday #bookbirthday #transauthors #queerauthors #death #lgbtq
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openbookopen
05/24/21
Right now books are where my heart is, so I’m going to keep talking about them! I started Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie last night and I’m three chapters in and it’s so good. I am laughing out loud, and also this woman in her late thirties is such an absolute mess, and let me tell you, it is so refreshing to read. Also reading Dead Dad Jokes by Ollie Schminkey which I downloaded knowing nothing about and it’s so good. I love finding poetry this way! “I imagine his illness as a cricket / only legs and a juicy body. i imagine how his heart pinches / at his ribs and frantically saws its legs together / trying to create a song.” “We are queer, which means / we have always known how to keep loving / even while surrounded by death.” It’s out tomorrow from buttonpoetry. If you’re up for some harrowing, and beautiful poems about watching someone you love die, I highly recommend it. Image: 1) My hand holding an iPad in front of a bookshelf, displaying the cover of Skye Falling. 2) My hand holding the same iPad in front of another bookshelf, displaying the cover of Dead Dad Jokes.
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tenacious_zebra
05/20/21
I saw “Dead Dad Jokes” by Ollie Schminkey while perusing buttonpoetry a few months ago and had to preorder it because it really called to me (having lost my own dad a few years ago). I even got it signed by the poet. Just checked the mail and it finally came! I’m really excited to read it! I also preordered a signed copy of Rachel Wiley’s new book because I absolutely adore her and her work speaks to me so much. Yay for poetry! #ButtonPoetry #DeadDadJokes #OllieSchminkey
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Description

Dead Dad Jokes is an unflinching take on family, loss and trauma. There is nothing quiet about Schminkey’s debut. Every page is raw, honest and unforgettable. Dead Dad Jokes brings the impact of addiction into crisp focus while also shattering our simplistic TV preconceptions about it. Ollie never lets the reader slip into the easy sadness of cliche – instead they guide us through the realities and contradictions of losing someone you love and of death – reminding us that they need not be one and the same.

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Praise for Dead Dad Jokes

I find articulation of grief to be challenging because the machinery of grief never stops humming for those who are in the midst of it. I am thankful for a book like this one, which is unafraid to return to a site of ache and continue in attempts to illuminate it — with some joy, with some gratitude, and without shame.

– Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Fortune For Your Disaster

In Dead Dad Jokes, Ollie Schminkey recounts their experiences as a caretaker with both tenderness and an arresting honesty, and in doing so, continues to care for us. I am immensely grateful for this collection, for its honoring of the messiness of grief and its celebration for all that survives it. Dead Dad Jokes is a gift born of bereavement and still, beautifully, full of life.

– Kevin Kantor, author of Please Come Off-Book

About Ollie Schminkey

Ollie Schminkey is a non-binary transgender poet and artist living in St. Paul, MN. They have spent the past decade coaching, mentoring, teaching classes, and running workshops for poets. They are the author of three chapbooks, as well… MORE

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