Still bad at keeping up with this place buuuuuuuut got my first in-person reading gig. If you’re in the area, roll up. Alienated Majesty, Austin, TX, January 17 🫡

My poem “A Black Helicopter Hangs Over the City Like Mistletoe” will appear in the inaugural issue of Dodo Eraser. Big thx to @travisshosa.bsky.social

So I got nominated for the Pushcart Prize. 🫡

Also I should promote this here because why not? I’m holding a virtual reading tonight. First time ever I’m reading my poems for an audience and it could be a very entertaining disaster so you should message me for the link and roll up.

Rubbing shoulders here with some pretty established heavy hitters 💀 Was very honored to be asked to send something in for this. In wrestling terms I’m very much the “young boy” in most spaces I’ve been in this year, and to be thought of for a launch is very validating.

I have a new story which contains the phrase "fuckboy with a heart of gold" in the just-launched Some Words, a literary journal shaped like a message board. Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing

My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.

I have new work in this literary journal that is published on a web forum!

Very proud to inaugurate my third lit mag for the year, Justin Carter’s new MESSAGE BOARD site @somewordslit.bsky.social. This is “I Will Carve a Mountain In Your Heart.” Please visit the site and read the other launch piece that don’t fit neatly in a screenshot. 🫡 somewords.boards.net/board/3/work

Some Words is live with new work by: John Waddy Bullion Never Angeline Nørth Travis Shosa James Tadd Adcox Sara Hovda Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work

Hey hey! New poem up about how much I hate Hobby Lobby and how dumb JK Rowling is and how my ex told me I fuck like a woman. Read it, clap for it at the bottom if ya dig it. Thanks to Genrepunk!

Got nominated for Best of the Net. Unfortunately for the haters, I seem to be halfway decent at poetry.

Wrote a poem partially inspired by the @hangmanpage.bsky.social / @swerveconfident.bsky.social feud in AEW and it got published on @bruisermag.com so go check it out 🫡 www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman

Hangman doesn’t choose Who dies, he drops the rope and The pale horse decides HANGMAN by Travis Shosa www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman

Yo! You should watch this! youtu.be/02atzCSuyls?...

Deactivated my Twitter backup. Don’t know how much I’m gonna be here but maybe more than before, I dunno. I feel like the tiny sense of online community I had has been eradicated the past two years.

Hey all, I’m not dead, just really not doing anything with music anymore because the stress/harassment/etc. is not worth it and if I wanted to be treated like crap, working retail would be a better option because the pay is at least consistent.

Poetry updates: “Gogoplata,” a *psychosexual* prose poem, has landed on Citywide Lunch. citywidelunch.wordpress.com/gogoplata-by... “The Australian Diaspora,” an intertextual cultural satire poem (also with sex puns), has landed on The Gorko Gazette. thegorkogazette.com/2025/06/18/t...

Still waiting on Twitter to deal with my account hack. I’m like barely frustrated about it now? I dunno, I’ve been online for like maybe half an hour total this weekend and it’s great. Been doing the Retsnom route in Hundred Line, wrote some poetry, lots of meditation. I think social media sucks.

So this is what’s going on with my Twitter account right now.

Well, time to be on here a bit more since I have been bodysnatched on Twitter. I have been doing poems. 3 acceptances this week! I made a bad website you can check out. 🫡 www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com/published-po...

My personal Twitter account @tsdenizen has been hacked. It's private so I can't monitor it at all, but please disregard everything from that account until further notice.

Why not read my new piece at BRUISER? www.bruisermag.com/zeller_cubist

Very stoked to have made my @bruisermag.com debut with “The Limbo of Coolness,” a poem that is a triptych but also a stand-up monologue but also an essay about masking with enjambments rooted in jazz theory and I will shut up now just uh give it a read I guess 🫡 www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo

Here’s an incredible review of my latest chapbook, written by @travisshosa.bsky.social for Eulogy Press. eulogy.press#fruit-and-an...

When I was in school, a Real Stunner imparted that I was “Cooler than I looked,” which I took to mean that I was built like a mathlete but mentally ill. THE LIMBO OF COOLNESS by @travisshosa.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo

Two things: 1) new poem up on Eulogy Press. It’s short, stupid, and a little sad. Check it out if you want. 2) I am going to try to be online a little less for a while. I’ve hit a breaking point. It took more than a year but I can’t really deal right now. www.eulogy.press/everythin-go...

I am a poet (?) of the people

Wild to think I started writing poetry in earnest last month and I got something on Maudlin House and I just got another poem picked up for what will eventually be a print anthology. And I’ve got enough written for a full collection (but it’s still only half done). Feeling creatively fulfilled rn.

notes app apology but i wrote the shit in wingdings so you know i am fr fr (translated) by Travis Shosa maudlinhouse.net/notes-app-ap...

In some ways, very silly that *this* is my poetry publishing debut. In others, very fitting. Thank you to @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. I'm sorry. maudlinhouse.net/notes-app-ap...

Kinda wild how it’s the freelancer’s job to find the right publication for a pitch, craft it, follow up and pray for a response, and then maybe (!) write the story, act as middleman between PR and editorial, send an invoice so people don’t forget to pay them, and run it back lol

Poems are sad. If you want to impress her, start painting. If you want to seduce her, learn how to cook.

Last month I started (seriously) writing poetry. I’d occasionally write poems in high school, or for people I’ve dated. But I’ve never been a “poet.” On Tuesday, I will have my first published poem. So, guess I’m a poet now. Thank you to @maudlinhouse.bsky.social

Big big thanks to Chris and 10/10 You’re Great for sitting down with Rapt and letting him gush about Damien Jurado at length! Check it out!

Baby’s first poetry publication acceptance 🥳 Will be published on Tuesday, might ruffle some feathers, I dunno

okay, trying to process this: - 3 dudes are chased near jillian’s house - she comes out, starts blasting, gets shot by cops - surrenders after 30 minutes, gets charged with attempted murder - only 1 of the 3 dudes got caught - weezer plays coachella this weekend what the actual fuck

“all the world’s a stage” = cool, fun, genius yet, “my whole life’s a performance” = scary, fake, oh no

He’s 9 years younger but I’ve decided Cameron Winter is big bro.

it's breathtaking how monumentally stupid just about everything is

Arcade Fire doesn’t need press they need a spiritual and moral reckoning

Moonstruck is so good. I like any movie that makes profound points about the nature of romantic desire while depicting Italians with the subtlety and nuance of Super Mario.

Graphic design is my passion

The fucking lunatics are actually now bugging me more here than they were on Twitter. If you’d accuse someone of only believing a victim to try to get laid, I suggest you check yourself into a mental health facility because you have spiritual rot.

Trying to decide if I just publish my book myself or if I try to push it through an official publisher.

we are maybe two weeks from jesse watters declaring that it’s gay for men to have sex with women

they're forcefemming the american office workers

good morning. these are real images

I finished four poems today stoned and they turned out really well in my opinion I think everyone should smoke weed forever 👍