A male survivor’s perspective on “rape culture”
An article titled “Rape Culture: What It Is and How It Works” posted on the Good Men Project website earlier this week prompted me to leave the following comment: The “rape culture” terminology, as...
View Articlethe other son
every christmas my dad travels halfway across the united states from the burned-out little mill town on the hudson where we all grew up to visit the two sons he likes in austin texas. my dad has three...
View Articlelast trip to the doll house
christmas the most wonderful time of the year or so that cheerful guy in the annoying song keeps telling me time to huddle up with the wife and kids mom and dad brothers and sisters the whole family...
View ArticleA different kind of Christmas story
I love this video from Mark McGowan (AKA the “Artist Taxi Driver”) so much. Brilliant. Touching. Inspiring. Extraordinary. What an incredible story. I’ve played it over and over again. I don’t,...
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20 in 2012
What follows is a list of the twenty new poems I completed in 2012. Fifteen of these were new as in “written in full in 2012″ and the other five were started in a previous year (as far back as 2009),...
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Empty promises
When I was younger, I used to spend this time of the year making all sorts of commitments and promises to myself about what my life would be like a year later. Every year I’d promise myself that I...
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Iron Man Family Outing still going strong at Amazon
I hadn’t checked the Amazon rankings for my first book, Iron Man Family Outing, in about six months and was pleasantly surprised this morning to discover that it’s still doing very well in terms of...
View Articlelittle iron man
angry eyes burn behind cold metal mask muscles tensed for fight in flight repulsor rays boot jets armor he is iron man. all-powerful controller master of his fate vengeful righteous realist almighty...
View ArticlePoetry on video: Seven poems from Scapegoat’s Cross
I’ve created a playlist on my YouTube channel (rickbeldenpoet) for the video readings I made a while back of poems from my second (still unpublished) book, Scapegoat’s Cross: Poems about Finding and...
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Welcoming the new generation of Highly Sensitive Men
A couple of months ago, I wrote a post called “I am a Highly Sensitive Man” in which I shared some of my history and experience as a man who is a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). My post was then...
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What do you need right now?
Being asked what you need for the very first time by someone who really wants to know and then finding yourself coming up blank is, I think, a common experience for many men. In the very first men’s...
View Articledead man tears
dead man tears fill my mouth dead man breath clouds my eyes. heartsick heartbeat laughing banshees hollow haunted house primed to burst. (PDF version)
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Sensitivity in the lion’s den
During the past 25 years, I’ve had the good fortune to be a participant in a number of men’s groups. Some were better than others, but in every case I gained something important and useful from the...
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Falling through: One man’s fear of feeling
I’m making my first appearance today as a guest blogger on Jungian author Jean Raffa’s blog with a video poem and commentary titled “Falling Through: One Man’s Fear of Feeling” about my fear of...
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Unhiding myself
1. Wounded wonder boy I’m having a hard time trying to communicate with a teenage boy I know. He’s smart, sensitive, idealistic, fiery, and full of potential. He’s also been wounded and traumatized...
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New book features my poem “fused at the wound”
My poem “fused at the wound” from my first book, Iron Man Family Outing, will soon be appearing in a new book called The Human Magnet Syndrome: Why We Love People Who Hurt Us by Ross Rosenberg. Ross...
View Articlegemini kitten
gemini kitten with your supernova eyes drown me in your fountain of youth. charm me with your purple advance overcome my disbelief knock my train right off its tracks reignite my burnt-out heart. win...
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“easter” featured on Beyond Meds website
My video reading of the poem “easter” from my book Iron Man Family Outing is featured today on the Beyond Meds website, accompanied by a short written reflection on the poem and its role in my...
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A thank you to my allies
A little background on this post: I originally wrote this entry on 02/28/13, but was feeling a bit too vulnerable then to share it. I read through it again this morning for the first time in over a...
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julie
another ex-girlfriend I never had not even a memory only a name another blank page in another empty book.
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