J. L. Yocum
@jlyocum.com
NYC Poet.
BA in English Comp/Poetry, University of North Texas.
Poems in &/or forthcoming in 𝘼𝙡𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨, 𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬, $ 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬, 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭.
More at jlyocum.com / mastodon.social/@jlyocum
#blueskypoets
BA in English Comp/Poetry, University of North Texas.
Poems in &/or forthcoming in 𝘼𝙡𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨, 𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬, $ 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬, 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭.
More at jlyocum.com / mastodon.social/@jlyocum
#blueskypoets
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J. L. Yocum
@jlyocum.com
· Oct 9
“An Interview with J. L. Yocum” in Pinhole Poetry
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/09/pinhole-interview/
Pinhole Poetry has published a series of interviews as a complement to their October issue, and I'm pleased as punk
[Click https://bit.ly/46LeNHD to read more 💀🕶️]
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/09/pinhole-interview/
Pinhole Poetry has published a series of interviews as a complement to their October issue, and I'm pleased as punk
[Click https://bit.ly/46LeNHD to read more 💀🕶️]
I'm doing one of those November novel-writing challenges, and it's the first time I've ever written more than three pages of fiction. I'm almost at 10,000 words, and I'm having the time of my life.
Is it literary fiction? God no. It's dreckish pulp.
...which is exactly why I'm having so much fun.
Is it literary fiction? God no. It's dreckish pulp.
...which is exactly why I'm having so much fun.
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I'm doing one of those November novel-writing challenges, and it's the first time I've ever written more than three pages of fiction. I'm almost at 10,000 words, and I'm having the time of my life.
Is it literary fiction? God no. It's dreckish pulp.
...which is exactly why I'm having so much fun.
Is it literary fiction? God no. It's dreckish pulp.
...which is exactly why I'm having so much fun.
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
Current* conditions near La Pointe, WI:
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Current* conditions near La Pointe, WI:
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
Current* conditions near Toronto, ON:
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Current* conditions near Toronto, ON:
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
Current* conditions near Thousand Islands, ON:
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Current* conditions near Thousand Islands, ON:
One day into using Scrivener, and I'm now mad at each and every one of my writer friends who never told me to download it sooner.
Okay okay, I'm finally downloading Scrivener to give it a shot.
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
One day into using Scrivener, and I'm now mad at each and every one of my writer friends who never told me to download it sooner.
Okay okay, I'm finally downloading Scrivener to give it a shot.
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Okay okay, I'm finally downloading Scrivener to give it a shot.
God I hate Substack.
I don't publish anything on it — I merely read on it. But the UI is infuriating.
There are precious few writers and publications I appreciate enough to endure their Substack-only presence, and I harbor a thoroughly grumpy resentment against all four of them.
I don't publish anything on it — I merely read on it. But the UI is infuriating.
There are precious few writers and publications I appreciate enough to endure their Substack-only presence, and I harbor a thoroughly grumpy resentment against all four of them.
November 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
God I hate Substack.
I don't publish anything on it — I merely read on it. But the UI is infuriating.
There are precious few writers and publications I appreciate enough to endure their Substack-only presence, and I harbor a thoroughly grumpy resentment against all four of them.
I don't publish anything on it — I merely read on it. But the UI is infuriating.
There are precious few writers and publications I appreciate enough to endure their Substack-only presence, and I harbor a thoroughly grumpy resentment against all four of them.
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
1-68 by Morris Louis, 1962
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137740
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137740
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
1-68 by Morris Louis, 1962
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137740
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137740
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
Shout out to @jlyocum.com and @havehashad.com for publishing this entirely true account of the day of my birth
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/jun...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/jun...
june, 1989 by Frances Klein
mother went to the hospital and said i was coming said earthquakes were shaking father’s foundations cracking him down to the roots they sent her away told her not to return until she was spitting s...
www.havehashad.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Shout out to @jlyocum.com and @havehashad.com for publishing this entirely true account of the day of my birth
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/jun...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/jun...
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
Current* conditions near Lakewood, OH:
October 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Current* conditions near Lakewood, OH:
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
Lucky to have had two poems in @havehashad.com -- many thanks to @jlyocum.com for choosing them and to @neonpajamas.bsky.social, whose delightful weekly prompts inspired the first!
TWO today from Stefanie Kirby!!
Here's the first. Click through for a bonus!
https://www.havehashad.com/4nmfe
Here's the first. Click through for a bonus!
https://www.havehashad.com/4nmfe
October 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Lucky to have had two poems in @havehashad.com -- many thanks to @jlyocum.com for choosing them and to @neonpajamas.bsky.social, whose delightful weekly prompts inspired the first!
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
Ok I screwed up the first time I tried to post--but! Pretty cool to have a piece in HAD this morning. Thanks @jlyocum.com and @havehashad.com
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/unl...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/unl...
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Ok I screwed up the first time I tried to post--but! Pretty cool to have a piece in HAD this morning. Thanks @jlyocum.com and @havehashad.com
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/unl...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/unl...
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
On the Beach by Pablo Picasso, 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137155
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137155
October 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
On the Beach by Pablo Picasso, 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137155
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137155
Sonnet 5
https://jlyocum.com/2026/07/01/sonnet-5/
"Sonnet 5" is forthcoming in the July 2026 issue of Moonday Mag.
[Click https://bit.ly/474o8sW to read more 💀🕶️]
https://jlyocum.com/2026/07/01/sonnet-5/
"Sonnet 5" is forthcoming in the July 2026 issue of Moonday Mag.
[Click https://bit.ly/474o8sW to read more 💀🕶️]
October 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sonnet 5
https://jlyocum.com/2026/07/01/sonnet-5/
"Sonnet 5" is forthcoming in the July 2026 issue of Moonday Mag.
[Click https://bit.ly/474o8sW to read more 💀🕶️]
https://jlyocum.com/2026/07/01/sonnet-5/
"Sonnet 5" is forthcoming in the July 2026 issue of Moonday Mag.
[Click https://bit.ly/474o8sW to read more 💀🕶️]
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
old pond
young frog
ripple ripple ripple
--Basho
(& me)
young frog
ripple ripple ripple
--Basho
(& me)
October 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
old pond
young frog
ripple ripple ripple
--Basho
(& me)
young frog
ripple ripple ripple
--Basho
(& me)
“An Interview with J. L. Yocum” in Pinhole Poetry
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/09/pinhole-interview/
Pinhole Poetry has published a series of interviews as a complement to their October issue, and I'm pleased as punk
[Click https://bit.ly/46LeNHD to read more 💀🕶️]
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/09/pinhole-interview/
Pinhole Poetry has published a series of interviews as a complement to their October issue, and I'm pleased as punk
[Click https://bit.ly/46LeNHD to read more 💀🕶️]
October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“An Interview with J. L. Yocum” in Pinhole Poetry
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/09/pinhole-interview/
Pinhole Poetry has published a series of interviews as a complement to their October issue, and I'm pleased as punk
[Click https://bit.ly/46LeNHD to read more 💀🕶️]
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/09/pinhole-interview/
Pinhole Poetry has published a series of interviews as a complement to their October issue, and I'm pleased as punk
[Click https://bit.ly/46LeNHD to read more 💀🕶️]
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“An Interview with J. L. Yocum” in Pinhole Poetry
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/09/pinhole-interview/
Pinhole Poetry has published a series of interviews as a complement to their October issue, and I'm pleased as punk
[Click https://bit.ly/46LeNHD to read more 💀🕶️]
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/09/pinhole-interview/
Pinhole Poetry has published a series of interviews as a complement to their October issue, and I'm pleased as punk
[Click https://bit.ly/46LeNHD to read more 💀🕶️]
...in case you wonder what I'm up to that's not poetry...
@pwrmnstr.bsky.social and I went to see The Haters play in February, and I bought a contact mic glued to a magnet from @cranksturgeon.bsky.social at the merch booth.
Gave it to Eric at our last rehearsal and he did this.
(No, we're not turning Oceanographer® into a noise project. ...yet.)
Gave it to Eric at our last rehearsal and he did this.
(No, we're not turning Oceanographer® into a noise project. ...yet.)
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
...in case you wonder what I'm up to that's not poetry...
Reposted by J. L. Yocum
@pwrmnstr.bsky.social and I went to see The Haters play in February, and I bought a contact mic glued to a magnet from @cranksturgeon.bsky.social at the merch booth.
Gave it to Eric at our last rehearsal and he did this.
(No, we're not turning Oceanographer® into a noise project. ...yet.)
Gave it to Eric at our last rehearsal and he did this.
(No, we're not turning Oceanographer® into a noise project. ...yet.)
October 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
@pwrmnstr.bsky.social and I went to see The Haters play in February, and I bought a contact mic glued to a magnet from @cranksturgeon.bsky.social at the merch booth.
Gave it to Eric at our last rehearsal and he did this.
(No, we're not turning Oceanographer® into a noise project. ...yet.)
Gave it to Eric at our last rehearsal and he did this.
(No, we're not turning Oceanographer® into a noise project. ...yet.)
Made it through!
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/08/made-it-through/
Thanks to all seventy-seven poets and writers who submitted to my half of the HAD guest co-hosted submission call!
[Click https://bit.ly/4nG5HSf to read more 💀🕶️]
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/08/made-it-through/
Thanks to all seventy-seven poets and writers who submitted to my half of the HAD guest co-hosted submission call!
[Click https://bit.ly/4nG5HSf to read more 💀🕶️]
October 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made it through!
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/08/made-it-through/
Thanks to all seventy-seven poets and writers who submitted to my half of the HAD guest co-hosted submission call!
[Click https://bit.ly/4nG5HSf to read more 💀🕶️]
https://jlyocum.com/2025/10/08/made-it-through/
Thanks to all seventy-seven poets and writers who submitted to my half of the HAD guest co-hosted submission call!
[Click https://bit.ly/4nG5HSf to read more 💀🕶️]
OK! I've responded to all 77 poetry submissions for the night. This was a lot of fun.
Now the cat is yelling at me to come to bed (he's such a little weirdo), so off to get five hours of sleep and then try to work in the morning.
Good night!
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
Now the cat is yelling at me to come to bed (he's such a little weirdo), so off to get five hours of sleep and then try to work in the morning.
Good night!
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
OK! I've responded to all 77 poetry submissions for the night. This was a lot of fun.
Now the cat is yelling at me to come to bed (he's such a little weirdo), so off to get five hours of sleep and then try to work in the morning.
Good night!
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
Now the cat is yelling at me to come to bed (he's such a little weirdo), so off to get five hours of sleep and then try to work in the morning.
Good night!
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
... and if anyone wonders, I absolutely did flip a coin to decide between two submissions (I'll never tell which ones!).
Thought it was appropriate to the theme.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
Thought it was appropriate to the theme.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
... and if anyone wonders, I absolutely did flip a coin to decide between two submissions (I'll never tell which ones!).
Thought it was appropriate to the theme.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
Thought it was appropriate to the theme.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
...and it looks like I managed to send out all the acceptances from Aaron's email address. Please forgive me, it's my first rodeo dealing with this "Submittable" bronco.
The declined messages I think are all correctly from my address.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
1/2
The declined messages I think are all correctly from my address.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
1/2
October 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
...and it looks like I managed to send out all the acceptances from Aaron's email address. Please forgive me, it's my first rodeo dealing with this "Submittable" bronco.
The declined messages I think are all correctly from my address.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
1/2
The declined messages I think are all correctly from my address.
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
1/2
OK I have chosen eight submissions out of 78. There are a few that were really hard to decline, but that's what I signed up for.
Really really strong stuff; you'll each be hearing from me shortly!
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
Really really strong stuff; you'll each be hearing from me shortly!
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
OK I have chosen eight submissions out of 78. There are a few that were really hard to decline, but that's what I signed up for.
Really really strong stuff; you'll each be hearing from me shortly!
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com
Really really strong stuff; you'll each be hearing from me shortly!
#luck @havehashad.com #guesteditor @tanyazilinskas.com