If you get four dogs and you give them all different voices and personalities and make them talk to you all day and all night about all their hopes and dreams and all your hopes and dreams, you can pretend that you actually have friends and family that love you.

have been hacked again on Twitter, which, is pretty much on me for thinking I wouldn't get hacked on Twitter. But anyway, I guess all my hot takes will have to go on blueski now. Twitter's loss is y'all's gain.

"You don’t have to like golden showers per se, you just have to learn to like getting pissed on. You don’t have to like Cleveland steamers per se, you just have to learn to like getting shit on." @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social www.godscrueljokelit.com/b-drevlow-2-...

Feel like it's destiny that I'd get published by a lit mag called God's Cruel Joke, but I still can't thank Lee Pearson enough for publishing these little ugly babies including the line: "You don’t have to like golden showers per se, you just have to learn to like getting pissed on."

Always happy to say good shit about @thedrevlow.bsky.social's work because he always writes good shit. CJ Poetry Review, Good Garbage: Benjamin Drevlow's Trash Poems For Trash People, www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/drevlows-tra...

I always tell the kids: you can be anything you want when you grow up if you have a dissociative identity disorder.

I can stop writing now. There's no higher praise I can hope for than this: "If [Drevlow's] thoughts on love and sex and life sit somewhere between a dumpster behind a Domino's, time on the toilet, and a dog's dick, well, that's just honesty." cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/drevlows-tra...

In today's Friday Five Q&A, I talk with @thedrevlow.bsky.social about his new book, "Trash Poems for Trash People," his role as @mrbullbull.bsky.social EIC, and the writers who most influence him. andrewcareaga.com/2026/05/08/f... #WritingCommunity

Thanks so so much to the beautiful & brilliant @andrewcareaga.bsky.social for the kind words and for taking the time to interview big fat trash-human me. Twas a pleasure. Maybe you check it out, maybe?https://andrewcareaga.com/2026/05/08/friday-five-talking-trash-with-ben-drevlow/

Thanks so much to the great David Staggs for these kind words over at Goodreads: "Drevlow is honest, irreverent, and self-deprecating. His poetry is at times funny, at times gut wrenching, at times heart wrenching, but it is always honest." www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

“She feels the sky drawing her up. At the same time, the inverted bowl of sky pushes down. It is like that optical illusion where you can’t tell if the black horse is headed toward you or walking away.” @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in Painted Bride Quarterly pbqmag.org/patricia-q-b...

This one from another genius, kind, beautiful human, Peter DeMarco: "Drevlow’s punchy, blunt, crude, profane, vulgar, sincere and at times poignant style turns all those trashy problems inside out." www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Books of 2026: 16 Trash Poems for Trash People I consider @thedrevlow.bsky.social my friend. I don't know poetry. These don't read like Billy Collins or Mary Oliver. There is nothing beautiful. There is a lot of vulnerability. A lot of hard truth. A lot of shared humanity.

Now to distract myself from the trashfire of 2026 with petty self-promotion. This one's from the genius, kind, beautiful human, @lmbayley.bsky.social "We have powerful, urgent language. We are unsettled. We are changed. We are left wanting to know what happens next."

"Here I am with my clown face on and hacking away at this bloody corpse & immediately you’re making assumptions." In my mind this is about the power of art to heal. Thanks to @burialmagazine.bsky.social who kindly overlooked their conscience & published it burialmagazine.neocities.org/clownface

I have a new story out today in @mrbullbull.bsky.social ! Thanks so much to @thedrevlow.bsky.social for his continued support of my Aldous stories. xoxoxo #FlashInTheFeed P.S. This was begun in a @mattkendrick.bsky.social workshop and finished in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop! Many thanks! 🥰

What if Ed Gein & John Wayne Gacy had a son who was a clown/pig farmer who hosted local middle school field trips to educate children about ethical pig farming practices? (Shout out to the kind & brilliant @burialmagazine.bsky.social for publishing this baby) burialmagazine.neocities.org/clownface

Got one day left on my free Prime trial, anybody want a copy of trash pomes in exchange for a review? (even just Amazon or Goodreads or whatever)? DM me your address. www.amazon.it/dp/B0GV7WQK7D

“If a mime mimes dying in the forest, does he make a sound? If a mime mimes a mime miming his hanging of himself, will anybody laugh?” @thedrevlow.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/An-elegy-for...

The sound is trash and I flubbed the last line, but that’s probably fitting for old Shel. youtube.com/shorts/NdEvj...

Thanks so much to the man @Dee_P_R_Kay for these actual kind words about #trashpomes4trashpeople "Even though these poems deal with heavy issues, the bright spot is Drevlow’s humor and willingness to be a rainbow in hell amidst the trash heap." www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

Thanks so much @bulbregion.bsky.social. Y'all rock the hardest.

Very humbled by all the praise coming in for TRASH POMES FOR TRASH PEOPLE: "I’m really trying to find something nice to say. I really am." - Billy Collins amzn.eu/d/04iAdmJo

Just finished reading “Ina-Baby: a love story in reverse” by @thedrevlow.bsky.social published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and it has already shifted my thinking about every word I’ve ever written. Like, I want I do- over. Burn it all down. My God, this book.

By the way, DM me your address and I'm happy to trade you a copy of *trash poems 4 trash people* for a review (even just a goodreads or amazon or substack or whatever). a.co/d/0hIsZb2w

All right let's try this again with actual link to the American version (all 8k characters of it): www.amazon.com/Trash-Poems-...

Just gonna drop this little linky link here for y'all: www.amazon.it/dp/B0GV7WQK7D

My performance of "how you know this is a goodass pome" from AWP Baltimore: youtube.com/shorts/HxNqV...

In other news, I'm very honored to be a part of the very kickass Michigan City Review folks. Would be grateful if you took a look my shorty pomes and maybe shared (if you don't completely hate them). mcrb.neocities.org/TwoPoems_Dre...

So many really cool people I got to meet and talk to in Baltimore, but I have to give a special shout out to @tracieadams.bsky.social & @lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social for being so kind & supportive. AWP is a ripoff is a lot of hot garbage, but finding people who actually give a shit means a lot.

Major thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social and all the beautiful @GhostParachute.bsky.social for letting me sully their reading with my smut. Thanks for everybody else who read their killer stuff and everybody else who came out versus the other million readings. www.youtube.com/shorts/0r4NL...

Thanks again to Mike Chin for organizing this reading & all the killer readers from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social & Malarky Books. And allowing me to do my fat-guy wannabe white guy spoken-worder schtick. youtu.be/qTrHDk99A8w?...

"After I heard Carolyn’s brother died I figured I should buy her some flowers. I mean, if my brother got high and fell in front of a train I’d want some flowers." - Sean Taro Nishi mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

Huge thanks to @apconmag.bsky.social & Jacob Everett for publishing "No Man Is an island but I am not a man" (part of my upcoming collection trash pomes 4 trash people). Would be grateful if you'd take a whiff. Or check out all their other kickass stuff apocalypse-confidential.com/2026/03/02/n...

Probably should've tagged @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social

Would love to see you/hug you/shake your hand at Baltimore this week: @ book fair from 9'ish-5 Thurs-Sat selling BULL, Booth no. 254 @ The Golden Care reading, 7-9 Thurs @ The Love & Regret Gastropub reading, 7:30-9:30 Fri Spread the word. I am large. I got a lotta love to give.

Would love to see you/hug you/shake your hand at Baltimore this week: @ book fair from 9'ish-5 Thurs-Sat selling BULL, Booth no. 254 @ The Golden Care reading, 7-9 Thurs @ The Love & Regret Gastropub reading, 7:30-9:30 Fri Spread the word. I am large. I got a lotta love to give.

My short story "127 Feet" appears in the new @mrbullbull.bsky.social anthology. Bull published it last year (thx @thedrevlow.bsky.social) and it's a story I had so much fun writing. I hope you'll check it out and the other contributor stories as well--it's only $6! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPX54CR...

"He’d promised himself, promised his therapist, he’d stop letting his anger be the first thing out of his mouth. But here he was, a grown man, sober for three months, crying over a clogged drain while his son watched him unravel like cheap plumbing." Susmita Mukherjee mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Please spread the word to any high school English teachers you know. The deadline for Georgia Southern's High School Writing contest is NEXT SUNDAY, MAR. 1. All submissions are free. Students can submit multiple categories (both creative & standard essays). See link on flier:

"Heaven is easy, you punch Jesus right in the kisser–POW!–tell Him you ain’t takin’ no for an answer, remind Him of the story of prodigal son, tell him, well, Big Bro, I’m home, slap him on the back, wait for the blood of Christ’s nose to be shed for you." hawkeyemag.com/stories/drev...

Huge thanks to the folks at HAWKEYE mag for publishing this gonzo thingy about shooting your nuts off to get past the holy gates. It's called "Heaven is Easy" & it's like 80 comma-splices spliced together. Would be eternally grateful/damned if you'd check it out. hawkeyemag.com/stories/drev...

Major thanks to @juscarts.com/@somewordslit.bsky.social for publishing this story about a sad clown dying a bad banana death at a party for teenagers. Would feel better about myself as a human if you read & shared & didn't say mean things about my clown fixation somewords.boards.net/thread/75/be...

🐈‍⬛ICYMI🐈‍⬛ Microfiction by @thedrevlow.bsky.social: “Note: I also stole your bacon.” 🙀 www.claudineliterary.net/benjamindrev...

So much greatness in this issue! Including a review of ALL THE DEAD WE HAVE YET TO BURY. Including stories by @thedrevlow.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social and a review of @mynachang.bsky.social's book!!!!

Thanks so much to the great D.E. Hardy and Claudine the cat for publishing this little pome of mine titled "Yes, I did break in and steal your cat."

Coming this Monday, humans! 🐈‍⬛🔥🐈‍⬛ @sudhab.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social

For the humpday crowd. For the people who call Thursday "humpday." Only. Nobody else. If you read it and you're not a humpday person shame on you.

Very grateful to the great folks @literarygarage.bsky.social for taking a chance on this dark little ditty from my series: "Dateline Love Advice." It'd make my day if you'd take a look or at least check out their other great stuff literarygarage.com/the-thing-ab...

This one is funny, disturbing, brutally honest, and impossible to turn away from. An excellent story from @thedrevlow.bsky.social about desire, regret, and the lies we tell ourselves to keep going. Now live at The Garage: literarygarage.com/the-thing-ab... 🎸🎸🎸