I'm going to try to take a break from social media for a bit. We'll see how it goes. Maybe I won't. The past 14 months have been brutal for Lindsay and me, and I'm honestly just exhausted by everything. Message me, email me. I'm still lurking here, just a little less so. www.davidwojo.com

Ah! I’m on a best book covers list! For the first time! I think! For my Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff Your Name Here cover from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social! Thank you @lithub.com.web.brid.gy! lithub.com/the-173-best...

Ah! I’m on a best book covers list! For the first time! I think! For my Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff Your Name Here cover from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social! Thank you @lithub.com.web.brid.gy! lithub.com/the-173-best...

Throw back to a year ago when @havehashad.com published what might be the strangest poem from my ekphrastic MS made up of 8 little surreal pieces: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/eig...

Psst! Need an amazing book cover? Or a beautiful, eye-pleasing interior? Give David (me, I'm David) a shot! Check out my portfolio here: www.davidwojo.com

One of my visual poems from "Classic Crimes," done with embroidery. I didn't promote my book, which came out late May, because of some awful personal stuff that hopefully someday will end. ANYWAY, if you're so inclined & buy my book I will happily send you a collage postcard to thank you. You pick.

Honored to receive the first ever FIFA Prize in Book Cover Design Excellence and General Amazingness.

Whenever I watch X-Men: First Class I’m freshly annoyed we never got an Erik Lehnsherr: Nazi Hunter movie.

June Jordan for #smallpoemsunday

The vet was shocked when I said Paisley puts up no fight when it’s time for a B12 shot:

I never read student evals (sorry) but I am reading my CW students' reflections and I'm getting all weepy. Please, please, please, won't some college hire me to teach CW full-time?

One thing that baffles me about vanity press authors is that so many of them appear to have never opened a book in their life. Why do you want to pay thousands to publish your book when you yourself don't read books?

thank you ben for these boosts! seems like you’re enjoying THE HORSE. if anyone else wants a copy, here’s the order page: www.lulu.com/shop/jay-bes...

Apparently many of you have never heard about this. Cobb tells Ariadne never to share your totem with anyone...and then tells her about the top? The top is a misdirect. Watch his hands. When he wakes up, he checks his hands. In his dreams he's still married (ring); in real life she's dead (no ring.)

Hey, a friendly reminder to all of you writers out there who aren't on any end of year lists or nominated for anything or winning awards... Lots of us are out here reading and loving what you make, are instructed and impacted by it. Keep doing what you do.

We had a rough 14 months here (for a number of reasons) and that's probably why I didn't read much (especially poetry) or write much this year. I only attempted 10 poems. Of those 10 though, here are 4 that I kind of like:

Ah yes. It's that time of the year where people virtue signal about not using Spotify.

Feel like I haven't been designing too many book covers recently and I would like that to change.

Taking a break to go for a snow walk.

Happy to have a micro in @havehashad.com! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

If you're a press who's interested in surreal ekphrastic prose poems, DM me.

Tomorrow is the last day of my creative writing class so…what is your ALL-TIME FAVORITE writing prompt? I want them to end on a high/fun note.

Issues 2 and 3 of Postcard are back on sale! Support artists! Read poems! Help me make room in my overly crowded office! Issues are 40% off for the rest of the year! Visit PostcardLit.com to order a copy (or copies, they make great gifts!) now!

Back to not eating today…unless I spoon feed her baby food. Brat.

If you're a press who's interested in surreal ekphrastic prose poems, DM me.

Where are all the presses that have no-fee submissions? I’d love to publish another book (first one came out in 2017), but I can’t keep dropping $15-30 to do so.

My 40 year old ass is driving around blasting “Pink Pony Club” because I just realized how hard it slaps.

The guy who threw a fit after JCO roasted him wants you to use his roast machine.

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

Give us the Mario sequel they set up 32 years ago!

After 4 days of barely eating a jar of baby food and lots of $$$ I don’t have on an ER visit and cardiologist appointment and no answers, someone just up and decided to eat a little dry food!

Meteor Man remake starring Idris Elba please.

15 years ago I came in 2,961st place at the Philadelphia marathon with a time 3:50:22. My first and (sadly) last marathon.

Just hanging out on the couch, facing the window, purring away like nothings going on.

Hey. It’s me. Glad these weird poems are still finding people. Hope the full MS finds a home soon…

My wife and I were amazed at how well our elopement day went. We were truly shocked at how perfect it was. But then the universe has made us pay dearly for it ever since. The last 13 months have been relentless.

No real answers yet just an unsuccessful appetite stimulant. In the past 3 days she’s eaten a little baby food (for real) but that’s it. Going in to see the cardiologist (for real) today to hopefully find something out. Aside from not eating and being a little weak, she’s still very Paisley.

It’s been a long day during which I got nothing done that I had planned. Now I’m exhausted after 4+ hours at the pet ER (no concrete answers, but her bloodwork is OK and she has an appetite stimulant). So now I’m crashing and watching Howl’s Moving Castle.

Little girl hasn’t eaten in over 24 hours so I guess I’m gonna go drop money I don’t have at the pet ER…

Nurse: are you feeling ok? Me, wearing a mask: yep. Nurse: so the mask is….? Me: this is a medical center. This is where sick people go. Is this a real question?

I'm teaching a lower-level CW class (focused on flash fiction), and I have a student who is a strong writer and wants to explore it further but my school does not offer any other CW classes. Is there a list anywhere of online fiction courses? I really want to offer them some resources.

Student used AI to write responses to flash fictions, but didn't realize these stories aren't "famous" or in textbooks so only including the author and title was not enough. That means AI just guessed on the plots based on the title...

Student used AI to write responses to flash fictions, but didn't realize these stories aren't "famous" or in textbooks so only including the author and title was not enough. That means AI just guessed on the plots based on the title...

Y’all. My wife always makes me an amazing birthday cake, but this one for my 40th is insanity. It’s a chocolate cake, each cake layer has a NUTTER BUTTER CRUST, there are layers of edible peanut butter COOKIE DOUGH, and a chocolate CARAMEL butter cream. I wish I could share it with all of you.

I’m 40 today. How did this happen?

Last day of my 30s. Trying to shake out a year of body aching stress with a therapeutic massage thanks to my amazing wife (who really wishes I would get monthly massages).

It's me. I'm the almost-40-year-old. Buy yourself some postcards to celebrate my aging body and soul!

What are some of your favorite FUN or FUNNY or WEIRD flash fictions? I need about 6 more readings to close out the semester, and I feel like 90% of what I've assigned has been pretty hard hitting and sad and triggering.

A little reminder that I'm making my triumphant return to AWP this year after a 7 year absence. I've met and worked with so many of you online since then and I'd love to meet y'all in person. I'm also very open to reading if you need someone to (probably) read some surreal ekphrastic prose poems.

2nd awesome book mail day in a row! Sometimes I do a weird cover design and I feel like Marty McFly at the end of Back to the Future minus the song stealing, but @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and Helen and Ilya were totally up for it.