Chad Parenteau hosts Boston’s long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His latest collection is The Collapsed Bookshelf. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Pocket Lint, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, The Skinny Poetry Journal, The New Verse News, dadakuku, Nixes Mate Review and anthologies such as French Connections and Reimagine America. He serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine.
How to Win a Debate
Drag out
opponent’s
solitary,
spindly
skeleton
from closet
to point at
and mock
until sum
of laughter
overshadows
mass grave.
– Chad Parenteau, 2024
The Galway Review 