Hanging the Angels
Available now through Finishing Line Press and Amazon
Upcoming Events
Recorded and air date TBD: Folkloring Podcast
9/13/25: Stafford Bookfest (Holiday Inn & Conference Center)
10:15 - 11:00 Local Book Speed Dating with 20+ local authors
12:00 - 1:00 Book signing
Free Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stafford-bookfest-tickets-1016542655447?aff=oddtdtcreator
9/16/25: Inner Loop @ Sonny’s Pizza
7:00 - 8:00 pm - Featured Poetry Reader
Free Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-inner-loop-september-reading-tickets-1483791392999
10/25/25: Crozet Book Fest 2025 at
Bluebird & Co.
5792 Three Notch'd Rd, Crozet, VA 22932
12:00 - 5:00 pm
12/6/25: Reading at Winchester Book Gallery in Winchester, VA
2:00 - 4:00 pm
TBD: Reading at 2nd Act Books in Charlottesville, VA.
Previous Events
3/29/25: McKay Used Books in Manassas, VA
4/5/25: Celebration of Poetry at CRRL Howell Branch in Fredericksburg, VA
4/12/25: Celebrate the Poets Day at Otto Bookstore in Williamsport, PA
JRML “On the Same Page” Podcast in Charlottesville, VA
http://onthesamepage.blubrry.net/2025/07/21/s9-e5-hanging-the-angels-by-blake-lynch/
4/19/25: Wooden Shoe Books & Records in Philadelphia, PA
Cobalt Poets featured reader
https://www.youtube.com/live/5BGmToKOsZE?si=QYz-kYZy6pbztOIA
Blake Lynch
Poet, Writer, Game Developer
Blake Lynch is a poet, editor, journalist, Wall Street analyst, and game developer based in Virginia. He holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Hanging the Angels is his first full-length, traditionally printed poetry collection.
His poems have appeared in Chelsea, The Southampton Review, 2River, Lines + Stars, Dunes Review, South 85 Journal, Poetry Motel, King Log, PIF Magazine, and elsewhere. His essays and cultural criticism have appeared in Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Listverse, and Diabolique.
Lynch currently serves as Media Research Editor and Lead Gaming Analyst at BWG Global, where he founded and directs the firm’s video game division. He is also developing Love Junction, a narrative video game blending satire, nostalgia, and literary ambition, and writing a book on the history of point-and-click game failures. He is at work on his second poetry collection, The Tin Foxes, and a collected edition of his early publications, The House of the Moon and Stars.
A longtime resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lynch now lives in Virginia with his wife, Jessie, and his daughter, Charlie.
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