Joseph Dante
@josephdante.bsky.social
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Writer and instructor living in FL. 🐈⬛ ✍️ 📚 🎮 🏳️🌈
http://josephdante.com
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My poem in the latest Hayden’s Ferry Review. Grateful to the editors, who also nominated the piece for Best Small Fictions. You can grab your copy of the issue here:
haydensferryreview.com/issue-77
about 2 months ago
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This place has two modes: bleak or boring.
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I want to do rejection erasures but most of the form rejections are barely a sentence long. At least give me something to work with!
8 days ago
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Stephen Delaney
15 days ago
My chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN is now available from Bottlecap Press. The pieces explore marginal life and have magical or fantastical elements. They're sad but I hope you enjoy them.
#booksky
#fiction
#bottlecappress
bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd
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Me on spring break.
about 1 month ago
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It’s my spring break. I’m going to get a haircut, work on poems, and go to the library.
about 1 month ago
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John Chrostek
about 2 months ago
Friendly reminder I got laid off recently & want the bookstore to be my main job alongside Amanda. Spent the last week brainstorming how to make it happen. Some cool things you could do to help: -Buy books at
@eveninghouse.bsky.social
, in-person or online -buy Boxcutters or Feast -hype either 🍻🙏🫡
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Evening House Books
Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.
https://eveninghousebooks.com
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My poem in the latest Hayden’s Ferry Review. Grateful to the editors, who also nominated the piece for Best Small Fictions. You can grab your copy of the issue here:
haydensferryreview.com/issue-77
about 2 months ago
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My poem in the latest Hayden’s Ferry Review. Grateful to the editors, who also nominated the piece for Best Small Fictions. You can grab your copy of the issue here:
haydensferryreview.com/issue-77
about 2 months ago
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I don’t really care about ekphrastic poetry and there is so much of it.
about 2 months ago
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I did an in-class handwritten essay with my class and I am way happier reading these than all the AI slop I got last semester.
about 2 months ago
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It seems like submission windows are getting smaller and smaller. 😭
about 2 months ago
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Rust & Moth
2 months ago
New
#poetry
from Ariel Machell: "When Professor [ _ ] Says My Poor Memory Is Why I’ll Never Be Great".
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When Professor [ _ ] Says My Poor Memory Is Why I’ll Never Be Great | Rust & Moth
I am not remembering how oikos and logos join hands in The Song of the Earth, I am remembering the way my breath made frosted fairies in the air outside of the coffee shop on 14th avenue where I first...
https://rustandmoth.com/work/when-professor-_-says-my-poor-memory-is-why-ill-never-be-great/
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Five college classes I took: - The Psychological Novel - Victorian Poetry - Creative Writing - Social Deviancy - Myth, Ritual, & Mysticism
2 months ago
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Hayden's Ferry Review
3 months ago
We are excited to release our Issue 77 , and our web preview is now live! Explore the preview, purchase your copy, and register for our 1/21 launch event. We look forward to sharing the full depth and breadth of Issue 77 with you! All links available here:
linktr.ee/haydensferry...
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I sometimes get mad when writers are too good. How dare you.
3 months ago
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Joel Hans
3 months ago
My debut collection of speculative short stories, winner of the 2024
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
Short Fiction Award, is now available for preorder and, well, I hope you'll want one when it releases this time next month. Get it from The University of Arkansas Press:
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
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I’m going to start a lit journal just so I can say no to people.
3 months ago
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For 2026. Let’s go. Read my full blog here:
josephdante.com/2025/12/2025...
3 months ago
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It feels like my husband has been watching football for 17 hours.
3 months ago
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Jessica Smith
3 months ago
In 2026, if you don’t already, start keeping a personal journal. You don’t need to write every day. They want to destroy history. Tearing down the East Wing, throwing away NASA archives, removing Smithsonian exhibits and historical markers… Keep your own history. We might need it later.
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Goodbye to 2025. 👋 It’s time for my end of the year blog, which includes my favorite books, games, podcasts, etc. This one was certainly something (derogatory) and took me a while to write. ✍️ Have at it:
josephdante.com/2025/12/2025..
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3 months ago
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“Whether we are happy or unhappy leads us to write one way or another. When we are happy our imagination is stronger; when we are unhappy our memory works with greater vitality.” —Natalia Ginzburg
3 months ago
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Susan L. Leary
3 months ago
Sharing the opening poem, “Pseudo Myth” from MORE FLOWERS, out with
@triohousepress.org
on February 1st, 2026! 🌺
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Ah, when the lines finally connect and a poem clicks, unlocks.
3 months ago
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My year in reading:
www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...
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Goodreads 2025 Year in Books
Check out My 2025 Year in Books on Goodreads!
http://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2025/5218179
4 months ago
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All of the podcast recaps of this year are soooo depressing (don’t worry, my blog will be too).
4 months ago
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We often think of a life in chapters. But I wonder: how do we organize our lives through our motivations/methods for writing? The life stages of a writer up now:
josephdante.com/2025/12/the-...
4 months ago
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We often think of a life in chapters. But I wonder: how do we organize our lives through our motivations/methods for writing? The life stages of a writer up now:
josephdante.com/2025/12/the-...
4 months ago
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No notes, really.
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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The hydra approach: for every rejection, you submit to two magazines.
4 months ago
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I really appreciate writers who are transparent with their rejections. Publishing is slow af and not fun. Why do we do this??
4 months ago
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Nick Sturm
4 months ago
If you enjoyed my "Good Riddance to The Best American Poetry" article, you'll dig the podcast "Bad Art"--about the politics of art in the 21st century--where I discuss more about BAP's genre management & canonization practices. Thanks to
@jt24.bsky.social
!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Reactionary Politics of “The Best American Poetry” – with guest Nick Sturm
Podcast Episode · Bad Art · 11/25/2025 · 1h 29m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-reactionary-politics-of-the-best-american/id1835670156?i=1000738204603
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I’m so lucky to have found my husband, who still doesn’t annoy me in the slightest. How did this happen? When everyone else drives me up a wall? We’ve been married eight years now. Incredible.
4 months ago
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Debut novel titles from the 2000s be like: The Numismatist’s Wife The Philatelist’s Daughter The Herpetologist’s Assistant
4 months ago
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Abigail.
4 months ago
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Finalizing grades this semester. They were not good. Very few As, many students not passing. A lot of AI use.
4 months ago
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I am thankful for: my family, my husband, my kitties. I am not thankful for: chronic body issues that have completely ruined my relationship to food.
4 months ago
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Lit Hub
5 months ago
What even was literary Twitter? Vote in the first round of our bracket to determine the literary internet’s wildest, weirdest, most iconic moment!
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What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket
We are gathered here to celebrate the brief, bright, Roman Candle life of Literary Twitter, a mesmerizing and maddening place where the most talented writers used to rub shoulders with the most unb…
https://buff.ly/SJtEsy1
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Oculus Imperia
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I feel like I’ve had 136 separate existential crises this year, at least.
5 months ago
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Receiving even one AI-generated paper sends me into an existential tailspin. Why are we doing this? Why am I even here?
6 months ago
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I’ve realized that most people seem to watch WAY more movies than I do. I watch maybe like 3 or 4 a year. I’d rather be doing other things? Like reading or playing games?
6 months ago
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Found out I’m receiving research funds to present at a conference + received an acceptance letter from Hayden’s Ferry Review for one of my haibun!
6 months ago
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Saeed Jones
6 months ago
To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
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Kelli Russell Agodon
6 months ago
"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..." Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey. (And thank you
@poetsorg.bsky.social
and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
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All these incredibly short windows for open submissions.
6 months ago
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Tired of this vessel.
6 months ago
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Take my poems!!!! Now!!!!!!!
6 months ago
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Nick Sturm
6 months ago
It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
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Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
https://defector.com/good-riddance-to-the-best-american-poetry
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