Lucas Scheelk
is an autistic poet & Irish-American antizionist Jew; while it's cool to note they’re a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, they're a poet because it's their promise to stay alive.
College dropout. Temp worker like a sci-fi hero. Lifelong student for liberation.
FREE PALESTINE! PALESTINIAN LIBERATION IS TIKKUN OLAM! [NOT] AVAILABLE FOR VIRTUAL READINGS & POETRY COMMISSIONS
Scheelk is currently not available for readings.
When available, Scheelk can do virtual and hybrid readings only; they cannot do in-person readings/travel. #CovidIsNotOver
Performance CV: [2012-2019] [2020-2022]
Chill Subs: Profile
Commission Inquiries: lucasscheelk ( at ) gmail ( dot ) com
In My Poetic Opinion: [all I ask for readers is to credit me - thank you!]
an ongoing project of love | for those who, by choice or necessity, DIY their poetry syllabus | updated on disabled/crippled/mad time
A PRAYER FOR A NON-RELIGIOUS AUTISTIC
On February 12th 2024, I wrote an open letter to the poetry community stating that I would be ending my author contract with Mason Jar Press - explicitly due to their lack of structural support, as an independent press, towards Palestinian writers during an ongoing genocide (while ghosting any communications I made regarding Gaza for months, both via email and social media).
In the future (I do not know the timeline yet), I will be self-publishing my third poetry book, “A Prayer For A Non-Religious Autistic” in various formats for FREE.
Poetry is for everyone.
SELECTED WORKS
If you’re a Halachic Daydream, a collector of Special Interest Badges, love literary mashups, or in search of prayers inside pomegranate seeds, Scheelk’s poetry may be for you!
POEM: “trans people gather for a name reveal party and play Apples to Apples except all the cards are fill-in-the-blank” [Pushcart Prize nominated] [Best of the Net nominated]
POEM: “This Is A Clothespin”
POEM: “I can only be a good (noun) if I’m (choice of inebriation) - a la Mad Libs”
POEM: “Question Thirty-Two”
POEM: “PAGE PROMPT”
POEM: “One Millennial’s Mourners Kaddish”
POEM: “The Full Body Project [book-spine]”
POEM(S): “SHERLOCK’S USBS (I)” & “HOLMES’ USBS (II)”
You can also find their works in queerlings, Mollyhouse, and the Bare (one’s) Breast Postcard Project, among others.
WHAT DOES RAINBOW STORMCAST MEAN?
RAINBOW STORMCAST is a wordplay on the translation of my Hebrew name
Sa’ar Keshet = as per my sponsoring rabbi, “storm that turns into a rainbow.”
I personally prefer and use Rainbow Storm as the translation.
My connection to Mnísota (Minnesota)
I’m a settler originally from the Twin Cities, born in Bde Óta Othúŋwe (Minneapolis) and raised in Imnížaska Othúŋwe (St. Paul); I moved to what we now call Washington state (specifically Suquamish lands) in 2018.
I’m a college dropout; my university education years were from between 2007-2013, and from 2017-2018.
I attempted degrees at MSU Moorhead, at the University of Minnesota, and at Minneapolis Community & Technical College.
Reference: FREE COLORING BOOK OF DAKHÓTA PLANTS & LANDMAPS OF MNÍSOTA [Marlena Myles (Spirit Lake Dakota)]
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For fellow creatives:
Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books Project | The Art Assignment
How To Write Book-Spine Poetry (Kansas City Public Library)
The StoryGraph (authors can submit Content Warnings for their books)
Chill Subs’ [ugh] | Promorando
Purnima Bala’s resource sheet for Lit Mags, Presses & Other Publishing Venues on Mastodon
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