Travis Shosa
@travisshosa.bsky.social
Writer. (They/Them)
PR for Rapt, Hectorine, and Jack Goldstein
Email me about stuff at tshosa@rantipole.net
Bylines at Bandcamp, Pitchfork, The Alternative, Post-Trash, etc.
Dis my portfolio: https://muckrack.com/travis-shosa-2/portfolio
PR for Rapt, Hectorine, and Jack Goldstein
Email me about stuff at tshosa@rantipole.net
Bylines at Bandcamp, Pitchfork, The Alternative, Post-Trash, etc.
Dis my portfolio: https://muckrack.com/travis-shosa-2/portfolio
So I got nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
So I got nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
🫡
🫡
Also I should promote this here because why not?
I’m holding a virtual reading tonight. First time ever I’m reading my poems for an audience and it could be a very entertaining disaster so you should message me for the link and roll up.
I’m holding a virtual reading tonight. First time ever I’m reading my poems for an audience and it could be a very entertaining disaster so you should message me for the link and roll up.
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Also I should promote this here because why not?
I’m holding a virtual reading tonight. First time ever I’m reading my poems for an audience and it could be a very entertaining disaster so you should message me for the link and roll up.
I’m holding a virtual reading tonight. First time ever I’m reading my poems for an audience and it could be a very entertaining disaster so you should message me for the link and roll up.
Rubbing shoulders here with some pretty established heavy hitters 💀
Was very honored to be asked to send something in for this. In wrestling terms I’m very much the “young boy” in most spaces I’ve been in this year, and to be thought of for a launch is very validating.
Was very honored to be asked to send something in for this. In wrestling terms I’m very much the “young boy” in most spaces I’ve been in this year, and to be thought of for a launch is very validating.
Some Words is live with new work by:
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Rubbing shoulders here with some pretty established heavy hitters 💀
Was very honored to be asked to send something in for this. In wrestling terms I’m very much the “young boy” in most spaces I’ve been in this year, and to be thought of for a launch is very validating.
Was very honored to be asked to send something in for this. In wrestling terms I’m very much the “young boy” in most spaces I’ve been in this year, and to be thought of for a launch is very validating.
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I have a new story which contains the phrase "fuckboy with a heart of gold" in the just-launched Some Words, a literary journal shaped like a message board.
Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing
Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing
Some Words is live with new work by:
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I have a new story which contains the phrase "fuckboy with a heart of gold" in the just-launched Some Words, a literary journal shaped like a message board.
Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing
Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing
Reposted by Travis Shosa
My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.
Some Words is live with new work by:
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.
Reposted by Travis Shosa
I have new work in this literary journal that is published on a web forum!
Some Words is live with new work by:
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I have new work in this literary journal that is published on a web forum!
Very proud to inaugurate my third lit mag for the year, Justin Carter’s new MESSAGE BOARD site @somewordslit.bsky.social. This is “I Will Carve a Mountain In Your Heart.” Please visit the site and read the other launch piece that don’t fit neatly in a screenshot. 🫡
somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Very proud to inaugurate my third lit mag for the year, Justin Carter’s new MESSAGE BOARD site @somewordslit.bsky.social. This is “I Will Carve a Mountain In Your Heart.” Please visit the site and read the other launch piece that don’t fit neatly in a screenshot. 🫡
somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
Reposted by Travis Shosa
Some Words is live with new work by:
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Some Words is live with new work by:
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda
Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
Hey hey! New poem up about how much I hate Hobby Lobby and how dumb JK Rowling is and how my ex told me I fuck like a woman. Read it, clap for it at the bottom if ya dig it. Thanks to Genrepunk!
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hey hey! New poem up about how much I hate Hobby Lobby and how dumb JK Rowling is and how my ex told me I fuck like a woman. Read it, clap for it at the bottom if ya dig it. Thanks to Genrepunk!
Got nominated for Best of the Net. Unfortunately for the haters, I seem to be halfway decent at poetry.
October 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Got nominated for Best of the Net. Unfortunately for the haters, I seem to be halfway decent at poetry.
Wrote a poem partially inspired by the @hangmanpage.bsky.social / @swerveconfident.bsky.social feud in AEW and it got published on @bruisermag.com so go check it out 🫡
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman
HANGMAN by Travis Shosa - BRUISER
Lo, the lone Hangman He arrived, sat upon a Pale horse, grimacing He was great, of course Bound for love and gilded waist Chosen gleaming pain
www.bruisermag.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Wrote a poem partially inspired by the @hangmanpage.bsky.social / @swerveconfident.bsky.social feud in AEW and it got published on @bruisermag.com so go check it out 🫡
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman
Reposted by Travis Shosa
Hangman doesn’t choose
Who dies, he drops the rope and
The pale horse decides
HANGMAN by Travis Shosa
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman
Who dies, he drops the rope and
The pale horse decides
HANGMAN by Travis Shosa
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman
September 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Hangman doesn’t choose
Who dies, he drops the rope and
The pale horse decides
HANGMAN by Travis Shosa
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman
Who dies, he drops the rope and
The pale horse decides
HANGMAN by Travis Shosa
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman
Uncle Emmington (Huntsville, Furniture, & Alphabet Soup) | Cast #107
YouTube video by Gulf Coast Music
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September 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Deactivated my Twitter backup. Don’t know how much I’m gonna be here but maybe more than before, I dunno. I feel like the tiny sense of online community I had has been eradicated the past two years.
September 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Deactivated my Twitter backup. Don’t know how much I’m gonna be here but maybe more than before, I dunno. I feel like the tiny sense of online community I had has been eradicated the past two years.
Hey all, I’m not dead, just really not doing anything with music anymore because the stress/harassment/etc. is not worth it and if I wanted to be treated like crap, working retail would be a better option because the pay is at least consistent.
July 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Hey all, I’m not dead, just really not doing anything with music anymore because the stress/harassment/etc. is not worth it and if I wanted to be treated like crap, working retail would be a better option because the pay is at least consistent.
Poetry updates:
“Gogoplata,” a *psychosexual* prose poem, has landed on Citywide Lunch.
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/gogoplata-by...
“The Australian Diaspora,” an intertextual cultural satire poem (also with sex puns), has landed on The Gorko Gazette.
thegorkogazette.com/2025/06/18/t...
“Gogoplata,” a *psychosexual* prose poem, has landed on Citywide Lunch.
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/gogoplata-by...
“The Australian Diaspora,” an intertextual cultural satire poem (also with sex puns), has landed on The Gorko Gazette.
thegorkogazette.com/2025/06/18/t...
New content every morning!
Now I eat nothing but shrimp on the Barbie™
thegorkogazette.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Poetry updates:
“Gogoplata,” a *psychosexual* prose poem, has landed on Citywide Lunch.
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/gogoplata-by...
“The Australian Diaspora,” an intertextual cultural satire poem (also with sex puns), has landed on The Gorko Gazette.
thegorkogazette.com/2025/06/18/t...
“Gogoplata,” a *psychosexual* prose poem, has landed on Citywide Lunch.
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/gogoplata-by...
“The Australian Diaspora,” an intertextual cultural satire poem (also with sex puns), has landed on The Gorko Gazette.
thegorkogazette.com/2025/06/18/t...
Still waiting on Twitter to deal with my account hack. I’m like barely frustrated about it now? I dunno, I’ve been online for like maybe half an hour total this weekend and it’s great. Been doing the Retsnom route in Hundred Line, wrote some poetry, lots of meditation. I think social media sucks.
June 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Still waiting on Twitter to deal with my account hack. I’m like barely frustrated about it now? I dunno, I’ve been online for like maybe half an hour total this weekend and it’s great. Been doing the Retsnom route in Hundred Line, wrote some poetry, lots of meditation. I think social media sucks.
So this is what’s going on with my Twitter account right now.
June 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
So this is what’s going on with my Twitter account right now.
Well, time to be on here a bit more since I have been bodysnatched on Twitter. I have been doing poems. 3 acceptances this week! I made a bad website you can check out. 🫡
www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com/published-po...
www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com/published-po...
Published Poems — Travis Shosa is doing poems
www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Well, time to be on here a bit more since I have been bodysnatched on Twitter. I have been doing poems. 3 acceptances this week! I made a bad website you can check out. 🫡
www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com/published-po...
www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com/published-po...
My personal Twitter account @tsdenizen has been hacked. It's private so I can't monitor it at all, but please disregard everything from that account until further notice.
June 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
My personal Twitter account @tsdenizen has been hacked. It's private so I can't monitor it at all, but please disregard everything from that account until further notice.
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Why not read my new piece at BRUISER? www.bruisermag.com/zeller_cubist
May 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Why not read my new piece at BRUISER? www.bruisermag.com/zeller_cubist
Very stoked to have made my @bruisermag.com debut with “The Limbo of Coolness,” a poem that is a triptych but also a stand-up monologue but also an essay about masking with enjambments rooted in jazz theory and I will shut up now just uh give it a read I guess 🫡
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo
THE LIMBO OF COOLNESS by Travis Shosa - BRUISER
When I was in school, a Real Stunner imparted that I was “Cooler than I looked,” which I took to mean that I was built like a mathlete but mentally
www.bruisermag.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Very stoked to have made my @bruisermag.com debut with “The Limbo of Coolness,” a poem that is a triptych but also a stand-up monologue but also an essay about masking with enjambments rooted in jazz theory and I will shut up now just uh give it a read I guess 🫡
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo
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Here’s an incredible review of my latest chapbook, written by @travisshosa.bsky.social for Eulogy Press. eulogy.press#fruit-and-an...
Eulogy Press
A literary magazine that rejects what's safe to create something meaningful.
eulogy.press
May 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Here’s an incredible review of my latest chapbook, written by @travisshosa.bsky.social for Eulogy Press. eulogy.press#fruit-and-an...
Reposted by Travis Shosa
When I was in school, a Real
Stunner imparted that I was
“Cooler than I looked,” which
I took to mean that I was built
like a mathlete but mentally ill.
THE LIMBO OF COOLNESS by @travisshosa.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo
Stunner imparted that I was
“Cooler than I looked,” which
I took to mean that I was built
like a mathlete but mentally ill.
THE LIMBO OF COOLNESS by @travisshosa.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo
May 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
When I was in school, a Real
Stunner imparted that I was
“Cooler than I looked,” which
I took to mean that I was built
like a mathlete but mentally ill.
THE LIMBO OF COOLNESS by @travisshosa.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo
Stunner imparted that I was
“Cooler than I looked,” which
I took to mean that I was built
like a mathlete but mentally ill.
THE LIMBO OF COOLNESS by @travisshosa.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo
Two things:
1) new poem up on Eulogy Press. It’s short, stupid, and a little sad. Check it out if you want.
2) I am going to try to be online a little less for a while. I’ve hit a breaking point. It took more than a year but I can’t really deal right now.
www.eulogy.press/everythin-go...
1) new poem up on Eulogy Press. It’s short, stupid, and a little sad. Check it out if you want.
2) I am going to try to be online a little less for a while. I’ve hit a breaking point. It took more than a year but I can’t really deal right now.
www.eulogy.press/everythin-go...
Eulogy Press - everythin gonna turn round when stop thinkin i’m tom green
everythin gonna turn round when stop thinkin i’m tom green by Travis Shosa
www.eulogy.press
May 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Two things:
1) new poem up on Eulogy Press. It’s short, stupid, and a little sad. Check it out if you want.
2) I am going to try to be online a little less for a while. I’ve hit a breaking point. It took more than a year but I can’t really deal right now.
www.eulogy.press/everythin-go...
1) new poem up on Eulogy Press. It’s short, stupid, and a little sad. Check it out if you want.
2) I am going to try to be online a little less for a while. I’ve hit a breaking point. It took more than a year but I can’t really deal right now.
www.eulogy.press/everythin-go...