After a hiatus Boston Literary Magazine is back, and I'm pleased to write them an essay in their second issue.
Of course, Robin Stratton is a tour de force, and an amazing human being. My writing world became a whole lot bigger because of her and her publishing arm Big Table!
Read it and you can find out a little more about me. Thx.
Richard Hoffman is an amazing poet, and a friend. When it comes down to it, friends are those who will give you blurbs, and his is very generous. I'm extremely grateful he liked the book
You can read some of his work off his website. HERE, I'll make it easy for you all.
TOP TEN MOST VIEWED BLOG POSTS FOR 2025! Links to each one and reasons why found below. Big boosts for ones with multi-media, either video or audio. Also, posts about Shadows of the Seen received a lot of looks.
More likely you'll give a shit about as much as the Top 10 Most Iconic Pop Culture Moments of 2025.
Why are they viewed?
1) Virtual Dire Series Schedule, Jan-May 2025
2) Virtual Dire Literary Series, This Summer
In the top two spots these SHOW need to know as people kept losing track of when the Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series was happening. Sometimes it's on a Friday, sometimes not every other week.
3) Excited that No More Bears is up with audio file at Pine Hills Review
It's all about the audio file, which is a very cool feature.
4) Officially Released: Shadows of the Seen
First novel in two years deals with gun issue in USA.
5) My poem, We, choreographed , spoken, and danced to by Betsy Miller at Mass Poetry Festival
Multi-media posted on this page, and just 'wow'! A dance troop danced to one of my poems at Mass Poetry. Plus Mass Poetry Festival was pretty amazing.
6) New Poem Published Today, The Stars That Refused to Burn Out, after Andrea Gibson
A poem published honoring someone who passed in 2025, the great Andrea Gibson.
7) Coming May 14, 2025, and you can take a deep dive.
The deep dive is an audio review about the upcoming Shadows of the Seen. More media please.
8) Shadows of the Seen now available for pre-sale.
Three months after the 'deep dive' people bought into this! Thank-you!
9) Flash Piece Dogs up at Literary Underground.
2025 saw Cats, Dogs, and Bears published as three separate published pieces. The post for Cats, appeared just out of the Top 10
10) Art is For The People, RIP, Tom Tipton
People that knew me, knew the Dire Series (live) and Out of the Blue Art Gallery, came here.
Here is everything I put out in the world in 2025, plus brutal photos of my legs...
BOOKS
Shadows Of The Seen,, May, 2025, Pierian Springs Press
SHORT, FLASH, AND MICRO FICTION
"Miracles of the Circus"
December 13, 2025 Meat for Tea, The Valley Reviews, Vol. 19, Issue 4
"Strange Facts About The Human Body You Know About
(after Tales for Men Who are Lost at Sea)",
December 3, 2025 Oddball Magazine
"Dogs", September 6, 2025 The Literary Underground
"No More Bears", August 27, 2025 Pine Hills Review
"Cats", June 22, 2025 The Freshwater Review, Volume 28
"On To The Next Thing", January 31, 2025 10-by-10, Issue #24
POETRY
"These New Orbs"
" Between Them"
September 13, 2025 Meat For Tea, Volume 19, Issue 3 (Faux)
"The Stars Who Refuse to Burn Out after Andrea Gibson"
July 23, 2025 Oddball Magazine
"lepidopterans"
"The Storm He Can No Longer Remember"
"When The Mind Goes First (for my father)"
July 1, 2025 North of Oxford
"Reply To Someone Who Has Had a Lifetime of Losses"
April 3, 2025 The Long Islander Newspaper (print)
"Loses"
March 20, 2025 Ink In Thirds
"Where to Look for Deceased Parents"
March 10, 2025 The Literary Underground
"Sill"
"The Ordinary"
"The Uninvited Dance"
March 1, 2025 Bagels with the Bards Anthology, #17, Print
PODCASTS
The Two Deans (Dean and Dawes): Dating, Dread and Disasters (also found on Spotify, I Heart Radio, Podcaster, Amazon)
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Also, on a personal note. I had to stop running for 6 months as I ruptured my hamstring, detaching it from the bone in June. The pattern of bruising is common for significant hamstring injuries.
January
15 Sarah Lippmann
29: Rebecca Fishow
February
12: Sandra Simonds
26: Nishi Chawla
March
13: Lisa Borders
26: Anne Starr
April
9 John Compton
16. Millicent Borges Accardi
23 Jen Bannan
May
7 Susan Rich
21 Wayne-Daniel Berard
COMING IN JUNE: Laurin Macios
Alexandra Naughton
Heather Kays
Matt Jasper
Emily Schultz
Susan Michele Coronel
Misty O'Hara
Elizabeth Searle
18 Ryan Vine
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And all the rest, (2020-2025)
Winter - Spring 2025 (link to replay website)
Eileen Pollack, George S. Peterson, Ellen Kombiyil, M.K. Jackson, Chad Parenteau, Kerry Beth Neville, Lawrence Kessenich, Linda Carney-Goodrich, Amy Alvarez, Kurt Baumeister
Jackie Corley, Dawn Tripp, Sara Letourneau, Kristin Bok, Edward Belfar, JoeAnn Hart, Margaret Young, Gabby Gilliam, Lee Varon
Miracles of the Circus , one of my recurring circus flash fictions with recurring characters made it's way into, Meat for Tea, The Valley Review, Vol. 19, Issue 4.
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| art work, "Lovers" by Ira Joel Haber |
The thing with days is they have ups and downs and highs and lows, and as they say, you get to feel your feelings. But, I've always felt my feelings, and when I drank and used, it wasn't to hide them. Feeling are life-things, and all I can say is that life is better, and continues to get better as I understand myself, and the things around me.
I finished a poetry manuscript These New Orbs, projected out in 2026, and I'm working on the first draft of a new novel, The Murder Gene, based on a true story which involved two murders on Long Island. Read all about it from the archives of Esquire Magazine.
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The writing group which I facilitate continues to go strong, and the folks the show writer every day.
I made 16 featured appearances for my books, and I played my first solo gig ever as The Timothy Gager Uno, preforming some old and new original songs.
The Dire Literary Series Franchise reached 400 total events. Number 400 will be the night of the anniversary of my last drink, November 6th, 2010. (see totals below)
On the challenging side, I had injuries to both legs, (torn meniscus, and ruptured hamstring), and a surgery on one of them. I've been in PT for 4 months at ATI in Dedham where the people there are great, and it's a lot of fun "hanging out" there while they miraculously helped me recover. They also allow me my sense of humor, but I am able to keep it non-podcast level. Tom Tipton from the Out of the Blue Art Gallery passed, as did my poetry friend Jennifer Martelli.
All of these milestones wouldn't have been possible, and might have turned out differently if I hadn't been sober. I have incredible gratitude that I am one of the lucky ones. So, thank you for supporting my sobriety and keeping me sober. Thank you, for listening to my podcast. Thank you, for buying my books. Thank you, for attending my events.
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February–March 2001 — First Tuesday reading at Cantab Underground
2
June 2001–Aug 2002 — First Friday, Out of the Blue Art Gallery
168 Brookline St., Cambridge
15
Sept 2002–Oct 2011 — First Friday, Out of the Blue Art Gallery
106 Prospect St., Cambridge
110
Nov 4, 2011 — First Friday, Yarrow
106 Prospect St., Cambridge
1
Dec 2011–Sept 2014 — First Friday, Out of the Blue Art Gallery
106 Prospect St., Cambridge
34
Oct 2014–Nov 2017 — First Friday, Out of the Blue Too
541 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
38
Dec 2017–June 2018 — First Saturday Afternoon, The Middle East Café
480 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
7
July 2018 — First Saturday Afternoon, Zuzu
480 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
1
Aug 2018–Oct 2018 — First Saturday Night / First Friday Too
Center for Arts at the Armory
191 Highland Ave., Somerville
3
March 2020 — Virtual Fridays Dire Literary Series on Zoom
119
January 5, 2023 — Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series on Zoom
through November 6th, 2025
71
Grand Total: 400
Don't go to my old domain for Dire Literary Series
Repeat: Don't go to my website
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not at direreader.com
But direreader.com is back, I have NOTHING to do with it, and it might be evil. Please don't go there.
What is found there? Brace yourself, is weird. It appears to be a tribute to the series, which ran for 18 years, but rather it is a rather complex AI version of that. Created by Ranchi Ellison (try googling, let me know he exists, because he smells of AI) allegedly creates a Literary Archive. According to direreader.com these sites are created to discover, preserve, and celebrate the power of diverse literary voices in our community.
What I found interesting interesting was the ARCHIVE bios of my features, where they gave perhaps 10 of the hundreds that I had. And also, the image of Steve Almond looks more like the way I used to look than Steve. See below, Timothy Almond Joy Gager. I guess doing all this makes them look legitimate.
"Steve Almond was among the well-known authors who took part in the Dire Literary Series, founded by Timothy Gager. His appearance exemplified the series’ mission to pair nationally recognized voices with local writers, creating nights of literature that felt electric, unpolished, and real."
For Jeannette Angell it says
"Jeannette Angell brought something hard-earned to the Dire Literary Series. We may not know the night she stepped in, but her battered clarity, her courage to stay real—those are part of the archive’s pulse."
and John Amen
"John Amen’s participation in the Dire Literary Series—Timothy Gager’s Cambridge project—places him among those voices that helped shape that line between the personal and the profound. It doesn’t matter that we may lose the exact date; what matters is that he was there, and that his poems continue to ripple beyond that moment."
There is a place to CONTACT them,
The most up to date will always be on www.timothygager.com
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