Joshua Zeitler
@thejayestofzees.bsky.social
Queer, nonbinary writer in rural MI. BLISS ROAD (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025)
Poetry editor for @longandshortlit.bsky.social—SUBS OPEN
Poems fc in Ploughshares, Foglifter, wildness, The Shore, & more
https://linktr.ee/joshuazeitler
Poetry editor for @longandshortlit.bsky.social—SUBS OPEN
Poems fc in Ploughshares, Foglifter, wildness, The Shore, & more
https://linktr.ee/joshuazeitler
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Joshua Zeitler | Bliss Road
Bliss Road: poems by Joshua Zeitler. Number 24 in our Rane Arroyo Series. Release date: July 31, 2025 [100 copies] 25 pages ISBN: 978...
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The link is live!! You can now order my debut chapbook BLISS ROAD from @sevenkitchenspress.bsky.social!!
Many thanks to Ron Mohring, who has been wonderful throughout this process.
sevenkitchens.blogspot.com/2025/07/josh...
Many thanks to Ron Mohring, who has been wonderful throughout this process.
sevenkitchens.blogspot.com/2025/07/josh...
Well shit the new Florence GOT me
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Well shit the new Florence GOT me
Opening Tuesdays with Morrie this weekend!
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Opening Tuesdays with Morrie this weekend!
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🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤
Our #spotlight is on Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
Our #spotlight is on Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
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November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤
Our #spotlight is on Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
Our #spotlight is on Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
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GREAT NEWS! We’re extending our submissions for the upcoming December issue, Sweater in the Attic! Deadline extended to 11/10–next Monday! Send us your work!
open.substack.com/pub/longands...
open.substack.com/pub/longands...
December's Theme: Sweater in the Attic
We'll provide the attic, you bring the sweater.
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
GREAT NEWS! We’re extending our submissions for the upcoming December issue, Sweater in the Attic! Deadline extended to 11/10–next Monday! Send us your work!
open.substack.com/pub/longands...
open.substack.com/pub/longands...
***thinks very hard about death***
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
***thinks very hard about death***
Tooooootally reworking the manuscript again… working on some new poems. Rethinking the core of the collection. Ready to get those papers EVERYWHERE
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Tooooootally reworking the manuscript again… working on some new poems. Rethinking the core of the collection. Ready to get those papers EVERYWHERE
Lovely little poem dropped today in a lovely little issue of Anacapa Review from @gunpowderpress.bsky.social
Give some love and attention to myself, Mickie Kennedy, January Gill O’Neil & more!!…
anacapareview.com/joshua-zeitl...
Give some love and attention to myself, Mickie Kennedy, January Gill O’Neil & more!!…
anacapareview.com/joshua-zeitl...
Joshua Zeitler
The Eiffel Tower Lift Has Only Women in It One of them is afraid of falling in love with an astronaut-in-training. If he should fail, how could she compare with the thrilling boredom of space travel, ...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Lovely little poem dropped today in a lovely little issue of Anacapa Review from @gunpowderpress.bsky.social
Give some love and attention to myself, Mickie Kennedy, January Gill O’Neil & more!!…
anacapareview.com/joshua-zeitl...
Give some love and attention to myself, Mickie Kennedy, January Gill O’Neil & more!!…
anacapareview.com/joshua-zeitl...
I want a man who’s at least 6’ tall. Just thinking about that. A really tall man.
October 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I want a man who’s at least 6’ tall. Just thinking about that. A really tall man.
New round of MS revision almost done—the longer I spend on this thing, the more I can taste it.
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
New round of MS revision almost done—the longer I spend on this thing, the more I can taste it.
I cannot—I repeat canNOT—overstate how amazing the new Brandi Carlile is my God save our hearts from the lesbian singer songwriters this is CRUEL
October 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I cannot—I repeat canNOT—overstate how amazing the new Brandi Carlile is my God save our hearts from the lesbian singer songwriters this is CRUEL
Hello my pretties 💙
October 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hello my pretties 💙
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Hippie Speedball will be available for preorder tomorrow!!!
October 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Hippie Speedball will be available for preorder tomorrow!!!
Yes—some really great work in here!! *wink wink* Read it & share it & get some free swag!
🖤SATURDAY #Giveaway for e(i7🖤
FREE to read, download, & share! buff.ly/Z8rgDrq
Interact w this post thru the weekend to help boost our contributors & we'll send you FREE STICKERS!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
FREE to read, download, & share! buff.ly/Z8rgDrq
Interact w this post thru the weekend to help boost our contributors & we'll send you FREE STICKERS!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
October 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Yes—some really great work in here!! *wink wink* Read it & share it & get some free swag!
I have a new inspirational mug for my morning tea at work
October 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I have a new inspirational mug for my morning tea at work
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Our third publication for Playlist for the Apocalypse is live! A flash fiction piece, "Somewhere in the Dirt," by Jackie Reilly.
Read at the link below!
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/somewhere-...
PS - Submissions for Sweater in the Attic close October 31st! Send us your work!
Read at the link below!
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/somewhere-...
PS - Submissions for Sweater in the Attic close October 31st! Send us your work!
October 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Our third publication for Playlist for the Apocalypse is live! A flash fiction piece, "Somewhere in the Dirt," by Jackie Reilly.
Read at the link below!
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/somewhere-...
PS - Submissions for Sweater in the Attic close October 31st! Send us your work!
Read at the link below!
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/somewhere-...
PS - Submissions for Sweater in the Attic close October 31st! Send us your work!
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The Long & The Short of It presents the final piece in our October issue, Playlist for the Apocalypse, long-form creative nonfiction by Matty Weaver called, “Gainesville.”
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/gainesville
Please read and share and remember to submit your work by 10/31!
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/gainesville
Please read and share and remember to submit your work by 10/31!
October 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The Long & The Short of It presents the final piece in our October issue, Playlist for the Apocalypse, long-form creative nonfiction by Matty Weaver called, “Gainesville.”
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/gainesville
Please read and share and remember to submit your work by 10/31!
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/gainesville
Please read and share and remember to submit your work by 10/31!
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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 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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
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Read The Urge here: engineidling.net/current
#poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #indielit #indiepublishing #litmag #litmags #indiemag #indiepress
#poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #indielit #indiepublishing #litmag #litmags #indiemag #indiepress
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Two new poems featured this week on @dialogist.bsky.social—read “Transition Diary II” & “Transition Diary IV” here:
dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
Poetry, Week 42: Joshua Zeitler — DIALOGIST
Transition Diary II Hungry for panting my wish list explicit. Thirsty bulb. &n...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Two new poems featured this week on @dialogist.bsky.social—read “Transition Diary II” & “Transition Diary IV” here:
dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...
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So excited for this: new poem of mine in issue 7 "The Urge" of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social .
So many great contributions here; read them all!
#poetry #poems #booksky #sacramento
www.engineidling.net/current
So many great contributions here; read them all!
#poetry #poems #booksky #sacramento
www.engineidling.net/current
Current Issue — the engine(idling
www.engineidling.net
October 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
So excited for this: new poem of mine in issue 7 "The Urge" of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social .
So many great contributions here; read them all!
#poetry #poems #booksky #sacramento
www.engineidling.net/current
So many great contributions here; read them all!
#poetry #poems #booksky #sacramento
www.engineidling.net/current
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🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨
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Appetite! Impulse! Desire!
🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️
💯% Free to read, download & share! buff.ly/RViXupP
Appetite! Impulse! Desire!
🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨
💯% Free to read, download & share! buff.ly/RViXupP
Appetite! Impulse! Desire!
🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️
💯% Free to read, download & share! buff.ly/RViXupP
Appetite! Impulse! Desire!
🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️
New poem in the engine(idling—“Dry”
October 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New poem in the engine(idling—“Dry”
I have a pimple on my ass.
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I have a pimple on my ass.
No one should ever have to feel hesitation about coming out unless you’re cayenne powder. In that case, a little more hesitation would be nice.
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
No one should ever have to feel hesitation about coming out unless you’re cayenne powder. In that case, a little more hesitation would be nice.
Submissions are OPEN now!!! Submit to issue two of @longandshortlit.bsky.social: The Sweater in the Attic!!!
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Submissions are OPEN now!!! Submit to issue two of @longandshortlit.bsky.social: The Sweater in the Attic!!!