Travis Shosa
@travisshosa.bsky.social
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Writer. (They/Them) I mostly do creative writing now.
https://www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com/
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Update: I have been writing fiction "Elephant" at Eulogy Press "One Billion Guys" at GONZOID "Clock Shop" at The Bulb Region "Kindness" at HAWKEYE "Blue Delusion" at Maudlin House Stuff coming soon at HAD, BULL and Some Words Link thread below
2 months ago
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New story up at
@somewordslit.bsky.social
called "Gloves" check it check it check it a kid dies in it š
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16 days ago
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Stanchion
about 1 month ago
Issue 23 arrives in 2 weeks. Pre-order it to be the first to read new writing from
@travisshosa.bsky.social
,
@katetooley.bsky.social
,
@lmbayley.bsky.social
,
@josephlezza.com
,
@catherineweiss.bsky.social
& many more brilliant writers!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/stanchion-magazine-issue-23
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Chris Dolan
about 1 month ago
Thank you,
@travisshosa.bsky.social
for giving these a home at Dodo Eraser.
dodoeraser.org/2026/05/08/t...
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Two Poems by Chris Dolan
Grandma Watched The first few times I enteredthe coop through the chute.Grandma tried to keep meout by talking up the rooster,whom I watched killone of the spring kittens. I was quite a bit biggertā¦
https://dodoeraser.org/2026/05/08/two-poems-by-chris-dolan/
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I still do journalism sometimes. Interviewed Sharp Pins, Cavetown, My New Band Believe, Modern Woman, and Francis of Delirium over the past few months. But mostly I hate the culture of journalism as it currently stands and I would much rather be writing a poem or story in most instances.
2 months ago
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Update: I have been writing fiction "Elephant" at Eulogy Press "One Billion Guys" at GONZOID "Clock Shop" at The Bulb Region "Kindness" at HAWKEYE "Blue Delusion" at Maudlin House Stuff coming soon at HAD, BULL and Some Words Link thread below
2 months ago
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Hey uh Never on here but Gonna share some recent stuff anyways before I disappear again Here's a new poem at
@somewordslit.bsky.social
It's called "Building Something Less Real Than Cartoons"
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3 months ago
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Tom Snarsky
3 months ago
next week!! more like ācoolest monthā imo, featuring
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
,
@travisshosa.bsky.social
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@ezhang77.bsky.social
, & Stephanie Anderson ā register below!š”
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Still bad at keeping up with this place buuuuuuuut got my first in-person reading gig. If youāre in the area, roll up. Alienated Majesty, Austin, TX, January 17 š«”
6 months ago
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Justin Karcher
7 months ago
My poem āA Black Helicopter Hangs Over the City Like Mistletoeā will appear in the inaugural issue of Dodo Eraser. Big thx to
@travisshosa.bsky.social
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So I got nominated for the Pushcart Prize. š«”
7 months ago
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Also I should promote this here because why not? Iām holding a virtual reading tonight. First time ever Iām 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.
7 months ago
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Rubbing shoulders here with some pretty established heavy hitters š Was very honored to be asked to send something in for this. In wrestling terms Iām very much the āyoung boyā in most spaces Iāve been in this year, and to be thought of for a launch is very validating.
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7 months ago
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Tadd Adcox
7 months ago
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
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Justin Carter
7 months ago
My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch ā send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.
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Sara Magpie Scrubjay-Wolfthing
7 months ago
I have new work in this literary journal that is published on a web forum!
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Very proud to inaugurate my third lit mag for the year, Justin Carterās new MESSAGE BOARD site
@somewordslit.bsky.social
. This is āI Will Carve a Mountain In Your Heart.ā Please visit the site and read the other launch piece that donāt fit neatly in a screenshot. š«”
somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
7 months ago
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Some Words
7 months ago
Some Words is live with new work by: John Waddy Bullion Never Angeline NĆørth Travis Shosa James Tadd Adcox Sara Hovda Check out all the work here:
somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
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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!
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8 months ago
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Got nominated for Best of the Net. Unfortunately for the haters, I seem to be halfway decent at poetry.
9 months ago
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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 š«”
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman
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HANGMAN by Travis Shosa - BRUISER
Lo, the lone Hangman He arrived, sat upon a Pale horse, grimacing He was great, of course Bound for love and gilded waist Chosen gleaming pain
https://www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman
9 months ago
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BRUISER
9 months ago
Hangman doesnāt choose Who dies, he drops the rope and The pale horse decides HANGMAN by Travis Shosa
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman
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Yo! You should watch this!
youtu.be/02atzCSuyls?...
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Uncle Emmington (Huntsville, Furniture, & Alphabet Soup) | Cast #107
YouTube video by Gulf Coast Music
https://youtu.be/02atzCSuyls?si=97v6EZ2c8Z2ZPQOC
9 months ago
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Deactivated my Twitter backup. Donāt know how much Iām 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.
10 months ago
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Hey all, Iām 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.
11 months ago
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Poetry updates: āGogoplata,ā a *psychosexual* prose poem, has landed on Citywide Lunch.
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/gogoplata-by...
āThe Australian Diaspora,ā an intertextual cultural satire poem (also with sex puns), has landed on The Gorko Gazette.
thegorkogazette.com/2025/06/18/t...
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New content every morning!
Now I eat nothing but shrimp on the Barbieā¢
https://thegorkogazette.com/2025/06/18/the-australian-diaspora-by-travis-shosa/
about 1 year ago
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Still waiting on Twitter to deal with my account hack. Iām like barely frustrated about it now? I dunno, Iāve been online for like maybe half an hour total this weekend and itās great. Been doing the Retsnom route in Hundred Line, wrote some poetry, lots of meditation. I think social media sucks.
about 1 year ago
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So this is whatās going on with my Twitter account right now.
about 1 year ago
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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. š«”
www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com/published-po...
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Published Poems ā Travis Shosa is doing poems
https://www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com/published-poems
about 1 year ago
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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.
about 1 year ago
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Addison Zeller
about 1 year ago
Why not read my new piece at BRUISER?
www.bruisermag.com/zeller_cubist
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Very stoked to have made my
@bruisermag.com
debut with āThe Limbo of Coolness,ā 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 š«”
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo
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THE LIMBO OF COOLNESS by Travis Shosa - BRUISER
When I was in school, a Real Stunner imparted that I was āCooler than I looked,ā which I took to mean that I was built like a mathlete but mentally
https://www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo
about 1 year ago
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Tom Blake
about 1 year ago
Hereās an incredible review of my latest chapbook, written by
@travisshosa.bsky.social
for Eulogy Press.
eulogy.press#fruit-and-an...
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Eulogy Press
A literary magazine that rejects what's safe to create something meaningful.
https://eulogy.press/#fruit-and-antilabe
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BRUISER
about 1 year ago
When I was in school, a Real Stunner imparted that I was āCooler than I looked,ā 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
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Two things: 1) new poem up on Eulogy Press. Itās 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. Iāve hit a breaking point. It took more than a year but I canāt really deal right now.
www.eulogy.press/everythin-go...
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Eulogy Press - everythin gonna turn round when stop thinkin iām tom green
everythin gonna turn round when stop thinkin iām tom green by Travis Shosa
https://www.eulogy.press/everythin-gonna-turn-round-when-stop-thinkin-im-tom-green
about 1 year ago
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I am a poet (?) of the people
about 1 year ago
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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 Iāve got enough written for a full collection (but itās still only half done). Feeling creatively fulfilled rn.
about 1 year ago
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Maudlin House
about 1 year ago
notes app apology but i wrote the shit in wingdings so you know i am fr fr (translated) by Travis Shosa
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notes app apology but i wrote the shit in wingdings so you know i am fr fr (translated)
What do you mean youāre deferring the Palestinian rapper feature because itās not the right time? Ā Iām sorry for thinking you had a backbone Ā I thought you were anti-colonial Ā What do you mean you ...
https://maudlinhouse.net/notes-app-apology-but-i-wrote-the-shit-in-wingdings-so-you-know-i-am-fr-fr-translated/
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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.
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notes app apology but i wrote the shit in wingdings so you know i am fr fr (translated)
What do you mean youāre deferring the Palestinian rapper feature because itās not the right time? Ā Iām sorry for thinking you had a backbone Ā I thought you were anti-colonial Ā What do you mean you ...
https://maudlinhouse.net/notes-app-apology-but-i-wrote-the-shit-in-wingdings-so-you-know-i-am-fr-fr-translated/
about 1 year ago
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Grant Sharples
about 1 year ago
Kinda wild how itās the freelancerās 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 donāt forget to pay them, and run it back lol
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Richard Siken
over 1 year ago
Poems are sad. If you want to impress her, start painting. If you want to seduce her, learn how to cook.
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Last month I started (seriously) writing poetry. Iād occasionally write poems in high school, or for people Iāve dated. But Iāve never been a āpoet.ā On Tuesday, I will have my first published poem. So, guess Iām a poet now. Thank you to
@maudlinhouse.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Big big thanks to Chris and 10/10 Youāre Great for sitting down with Rapt and letting him gush about Damien Jurado at length! Check it out!
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about 1 year ago
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Babyās first poetry publication acceptance š„³ Will be published on Tuesday, might ruffle some feathers, I dunno
about 1 year ago
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jackson balling
about 1 year ago
okay, trying to process this: - 3 dudes are chased near jillianās 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
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pictoria vark
about 1 year ago
āall the worldās a stageā = cool, fun, genius yet, āmy whole lifeās a performanceā = scary, fake, oh no
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Heās 9 years younger but Iāve decided Cameron Winter is big bro.
about 1 year ago
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Dash Lewis // Gardener
about 1 year ago
it's breathtaking how monumentally stupid just about everything is
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Grant Sharples
about 1 year ago
Arcade Fire doesnāt need press they need a spiritual and moral reckoning
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Haus of Decline
about 1 year ago
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.
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