Open Arts Press is pleased to announce the publication of Daniel J. Flore III’s new poetry collection, A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare: Selected Poems.
Flore’s poems move through the strange, funny, damaged, and sometimes unexpectedly beautiful corners of ordinary life: parking lots, hospital rooms, cigarettes, cheap rooms, family memories, sex, illness, loneliness, prayer, and the peculiar moments that somehow stay with us. In A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare, Flore gathers poems that look hard at ordinary American life and find within its boredom, damage, absurdity, and loneliness moments of humor, tenderness, beauty, and spiritual unease.
The voice is unmistakably his—direct, raw, darkly comic, vulnerable, and unwilling to smooth away the rough edges. The book is free for downloading in the formats below. If you enjoy it, please consider giving Dan a tip (links below) and supporting Open Arts Forum.
About Daniel J. Flore III
Daniel J. Flore III is the author of several collections of poetry, including Lapping Water, Humbled Wise Men Christmas Haikus, Home and Other Places I’ve Yet to See, Pink Marigold Rays, and Written in the Dust on the Ceiling Fan.
Daniel J. Flore III
A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare: Selected Poems
Open Arts Press, LLC
2026
