[Image Description: Lucas is standing in front of the Trans Pride flag, holding a Superman-like stance; they’re a queer white Jew; they’re wearing a button-up with intersecting rainbow and white stripes, opened up to reveal a black tee-shirt with pink text that reads: “Challah Rolls not Gender Roles;” they’re also wearing a Magen David, and pink pixelated sunglasses.]
Who am I?
I’m a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, a degree-less college-dropout, and the author of A PRAYER FOR A NON-RELIGIOUS AUTISTIC (formally published at Mason Jar Press, 2022).
Where you may have seen me:
Thunder & Lightning: a Virtual Poetry Showcase featuring Disabled/Sick/Neurodiverse/Mad BIPOC & Queer Poets* (July 2022 & Oct 2022)
Park City Library (Utah) | Virtual Poetry Workshop & Virtual Conversation w/ Lucas Scheelk (Nov 2021)
*I’m in the Queer Poets category
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Content Notes added as needed.
Venmo: Lucas-Scheelk
CashApp: $LucasScheelk
A PRAYER FOR A NON-RELIGIOUS AUTISTIC [poem]
[Image Description: Lucas Scheelk performing their poem, “A Prayer For A Non-Religious Autistic,” for Jewish Creators Day 2021 on TikTok; they’re an autistic poet; they’re a queer white Jew; they’re wearing a button-up with intersecting rainbow and white stripes, along with a rainbow clip-on bowtie (they learned how to tie a tie on Youtube for a show, just not a bowtie lol); they’re sitting against a white background]
Content Note: References to prior self-harm, suicidal-ideation, and dissociation.
The Walking Rainbow Enters Shul [poem]
[Image Description: Lucas Scheelk performing their poem, “The Walking Rainbow Enters Shul,” on May 22nd 2022 on TikTok; they’re an autistic poet; they’re a queer white Jew; they’re wearing a button-up with intersecting rainbow and white stripes, along with a rainbow clip-on bowtie; they’re performing in their bathroom with color-changing lights in the background]
Content Note: Minor reference to queerphobia.
Guess Who Ate The Challah Before They Were Supposed To? [poem]
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[Image Description: Lucas Scheelk performing their poem, “Guess Who Ate The Challah Before They Were Supposed To,” from their book for Jewish Creators Day 2022 on TikTok; they’re an autistic poet; they’re a queer white Jew; they’re wearing a dark blue shirt with a goose on it; said goose is carrying a hanukkiah signifying, “Happy Honk;” they’re reading in front of their bookcases.]
Content Note: References to antisemitism, prior self-harm, Tree of Life synagogue shooting, disordered eating, and alcohol.
PUNK ROCK HORA [Book-Spine Poetry 101 Lesson; example poem]
[Image Description: Lucas Scheelk, diving further into one of their special interests, doing an instructional video on book-spine poetry, (popularized by Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books Project) on December 14th 2022 on TikTok; they’re an autistic poet; they’re a queer white Jew; they’re wearing a black shirt; they’re sitting behind a pile of books gathered for the book-spine poem example: “Punk Rock Hora,” “The Rabbi Who Prayed With Fire,” “Tell Me Who We Were,” “Minyan,” “Wandering Stars,” “More Wandering Stars,” “How We Live Now,” “Knot Body,” “More Than Organs,” “Wound From The Mouth Of A Wound,” “Born To Kvetch,” “On The Wings Of Shekhinah,” “Embodied,” “And This Is How We Stay Alive,” and “If This Is The Age We End Discovery.” Titles are read in this performance with minor creative license (i.e. omitting authors names, or adding an “a” or “the”).]
MARILYN MONROE | FRAGMENTS [series]
[Image Description: A series of three videos of Lucas Scheelk performing poetry by Jewish poet Marilyn Monroe]
Content Note: All writings are featured in “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters” by Marilyn Monroe (ed. by Stanley Buchthal & Bernard Comment)
Holmes is a person as is [poem]
[Image Description: Lucas Scheelk performing their poem, “Holmes is a person as is,” for Jewish Creators Day 2021 on TikTok; they’re an autistic poet; they’re a queer white Jew; they’re wearing a button-up with intersecting rainbow and white stripes, along with a rainbow clip-on bowtie.]
Content Note: This poem shares its namesake with my 2nd poetry chapbook, which is always available to read.
Definitely not last, but absolutely not least…
Silver Screen Bipolar [poem]
[Image Description: Lucas Scheelk performing their poem, “Silver Screen Bipolar,” for World Bipolar Day 2022 (read on Trans Day of Visibility 2022) on TikTok; they’re an autistic poet; they’re a queer white Jew; they’re wearing a dark blue button-up with tiny white stars; they’re wearing a rainbow suit coat over it.]
Content Note: References to saneism, medical ableism, suicidal-ideation, and needles.
See also: Word Association Quiz [poem].