Tim Carmichael

Joined March 2025

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Tim is an Appalachian poet and cookbook author. He writes about rural life, family, and the places he grew up around. His poetry and essays have appeared in Beautiful and Brutal Things, his latest book.

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Hunting for Faith in a Divided World
I hunt the Almighty through the briars of Sunday morning sermons where salvation wears campaign buttons and holy water tastes of bile.
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Poets
When Joy and Shadow Dance: A Sonnet
A flash born of sun, a sudden grace, Lights up the silent rooms where memories sleep. It paints a smile upon a shadowed face,
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Poets
Sent to the Moon, C/O Loneliness
Dear Moon, I write you from this still hour, when every earthly form is a silhouette against your brilliance. You preside, a stark and single eye
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Poets
The Casket of Regret
Upon the midnight's mournful air, A spectral voice finds my ear, The memory I cannot bear. It speaks of all that was so fair,
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Poets
Radiance in Shadow
Love binds me where it hurts, both sweet and stern, A shining chain that dazzles, then deceives. Its fire consoles while making spirit burn,
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Poets
Final Drift
Last leaf slips away red, gold, and amber tremble softly lands and rests
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Poets
An Autumn Elegy
The wind blows shaking the trees like a sad song for autumn's goodbye There is still one leaf holding stubbornly to the branch
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Poets
A Tribute to Everyone's Autumn Haikus
Autumn haikus shine, Each line a crisp leaf falling I love them all, friends.
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Poets
Autumn's Fleeting Beauty
Golden leaf spirals one breath of wind, then silence on the empty branch
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Poets
Midnight Visitor
Something breathes beside My bed in the dark silence I live here alone
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Poets
Songs That Should Not Exist. Top Story - September 2025.
There are so many songs I could add to this list. 1. “Friday” – Rebecca Black Listen here “Friday” is the aural equivalent of stepping barefoot on a Lego. Every note is a testament to what happens when ambition meets no discernible talent. The autotuned vocals are robotic, the lyrics read like a diary of a caffeinated thirteen-year-old, and the beat is an unrelenting metronome of despair. Listening to this song is simply unpleasant. It is an experience of existential torment wrapped in a pop veneer.
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Beat
The Hidden Shapes of a Poet's Self
I carve a space both bare and full An altar for truths I have sealed away A hiding place for who I am When shadows slope toward evening
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Poets