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Joshua Zeitler
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Queer, nonbinary writer in rural MI. BLISS ROAD (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025)

Poetry editor for @longandshortlit.bsky.social

Poems fc in Ploughshares, Foglifter, wildness, The Shore, & more

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · Jul 31
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.

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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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Today is the release date for the Winter Issue of @pshares.bsky.social, which happens to hold the most ridiculously heartfelt poem I’ve ever written: “Last night I watched two flies make love”! Get your copy of the issue now!
January 14, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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It's here!! 🎉
glasspoetry.bsky.social Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 4d
Now available! Opening by Stefanie Kirby (@msstefaniekirby.bsky.social)!

And this gorgeous chapbook is available for the pre-sale price of only $7.50 (shipping and handling included)

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Cover art for Stefanie Kirby's Opening. Text: Kirby's vivid and sensuous descriptions of loss and longing are even more haunting for what they cannot control. Sample poem from Opening Self-Erosion You think your body a desert. You choose to be a desert, yet your desert body asks you for a river. This desert demands you make a river from your body. The desert demands you make a river from your body and you respond with sand, and a river. The mouth of the river collects stones and hurls them from its banks, and you build another body from the sand. The body you have built of sand does not fall to the waves. The body falls to the wounds from the hurled stones, which return it to the water. The hurled stones return it, the sand body you built, to the earth beneath the water where it began, once, as stone. The mouth opens. The mouth of the river that you made with your body recoils to swallow the sand body you built, a body wounded by stone. Wounds swallowed, made smooth by water. Smooth as stone beneath the river, still as a body of sand. Cover of Opening by Stefanie Kirby Sometimes death is a daughter & the wind her breath. From "With Wind" Stefanie Kirby is the author of Fruitful (Driftwood Press, 2024), winner of the Adrift Chapbook Contest, and Remainder (Bull City Press, 2025). Her poetry appears in Best of the Net, West Branch, Pleiades, Sixth Finch, Massachusetts Review, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She lives along Colorado's Front Range with her family. Now available! $8.50 (shipping & handling included) www.glass-poetry.com Stefanie Kirby is the author of Fruitful (Driftwood Press, 2024), winner of the Adrift Chapbook Contest, and Remainder (Bull City Press, 2025). Her poetry appears in Best of the Net, West Branch, Pleiades, Sixth Finch, Massachusetts Review, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She lives along Colorado's Front Range with her family.
January 13, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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Submissions are OPEN! No fee, no theme, no moderation! Send us your longest and your shortest work!
longandshortlit.bsky.social The Long & The Short of It @longandshortlit.bsky.social · Dec 15
The Long and the Short of It is now open for rolling submissions on any theme! That’s right—any genre, any theme, any time. Just send us work that fits our word limits and makes us want to be your best friends (but not in a creepy way).

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January 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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“i never knew what it was like to be untouched / in this new body.”

Love this one by Leander He 💙

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December 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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I texted my friend “Haven’t gotten a rejection in a week, neg me daddy,” & then forgot so when he did I was a little mad but really he was just being a pal
December 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Time to share our final piece of the year---a flash fiction piece by Rowan Tate!
Happy holidays to all who celebrate and we’ll see you in the new year! 2026!
PS - We are now open for general submissions! Send us your work!
Read Here:
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Seating Arrangement
Rowan Tate
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December 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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So when is the George Santos biopic coming out?
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I’ve been failing at my slut phase but I did trick my therapist into using the phrase “finger-sucking vibe” so that’s one win.
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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ICYMI we're open for subs!

Check out our guidelines for this special issue: engineidling.net/submissionguidelines
the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · Dec 3
OPEN SUBS for e(i8: Collage!

We're inviting YOU to remix much of our archive!

We want your cut-ups, golden shovels, frankenpoems, etc!

See guidelines for details/limitations: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP

#poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #indielit #litmag #callforsubs #opensubs #artcommunity
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It’s the first Thursday of a release month! Please read and enjoy the first publication of our December issue: “I will never meet Robert Redford,” a poem by Lyndie Blevins.
Read Here: longandshortlit.substack.com/p/i-will-nev...
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/eHwvv5k!

Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects.

This #Spotlight is on Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social!
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Volume II from The Long and The Short of It drops this week! Our Fiction and CNF editor, Mary, addresses our December publications and exciting news for upcoming issues!
Read at the link below, and please subscribe to our Substack!
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December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Thrilled to have my contributor’s copies of @foglifterpress.bsky.social arrive yesterday!! Much love to Chad Koch & the editors—I couldn’t dream of a better home for these poems that are so dear to me. 💙💙
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

Our #spotlight is on Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social !

Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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If anyone rejects me today, shame on them, but I’ll be thankful
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.
"Your project to promote 'gender ideology' unfortunately does not align with our priorities." —NEA Notice of Termination Sarabande is exceedingly proud to be misaligned with this administration's vision for the arts. We refuse to become demoralized, soft-pedal our values, or sell out our authors for federal funding. We know you share our values and determination. Help us bridge the gap left by the NEA with a recurring monthly donation or gift of any size.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Strong wind—
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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from A River Dies of Thirst by Mahmoud Darwish
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Let me tell you, I am working this chair…
November 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Well shit the new Florence GOT me
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Opening Tuesdays with Morrie this weekend!
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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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
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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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!

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December's Theme: Sweater in the Attic
We'll provide the attic, you bring the sweater.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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***thinks very hard about death***
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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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