D. A. Hosek
@dahosek.bsky.social
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D. A. Hosek
@dahosek.bsky.social
· Sep 5
Fall-Winter 2025 - Rat's Ass Review
Donald Patten “Mask Gleaners” (charcoal on canvas) The Poetry Kelli Allen ROBBING THE TABLE WHERE NOTHING EXISTS Both our jackets escaped the fall, but the radio stayed a static river anyway, no matte...
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Beginning a big thread of 2025 publications (yes, I know it’s September. This is the first thing published this year) with my poem “Chicago Sonnet #26” in Rat’s Ass Review.
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My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
Hot dogs, martians?
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hot dogs, martians?
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Just sent out an advance reading packet with a knockout array of poems about food. Want a look? My seminar, "An Appetite for the Page," is this Sunday (11/16), 1-4 PM ET online with the wonderful @poetcamp.bsky.social. Sliding scale registration & a couple of seats left! poetcamp.com/an-appetite-...
An Appetite for the Page with Sandra Beasley | Poet Camp
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November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Just sent out an advance reading packet with a knockout array of poems about food. Want a look? My seminar, "An Appetite for the Page," is this Sunday (11/16), 1-4 PM ET online with the wonderful @poetcamp.bsky.social. Sliding scale registration & a couple of seats left! poetcamp.com/an-appetite-...
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Laughter is the best medicine, except for medicine.
July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Laughter is the best medicine, except for medicine.
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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I did not see this twist coming. But it is starting to fill in some missing pieces.
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I did not see this twist coming. But it is starting to fill in some missing pieces.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Change a letter. Make a singer less appealing
Manonna
Manonna
Change a letter. Make a singer less appealing
Noncy Sinatra
Noncy Sinatra
Change a letter. Make a singer less appealing
Tom Jokes
Tom Jokes
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Change a letter. Make a singer less appealing
Manonna
Manonna
My cats are in the bathtub hiding from the robot vacuum cleaner
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My cats are in the bathtub hiding from the robot vacuum cleaner
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Repost with an iconic fictional band:
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Repost with an iconic fictional band:
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More people should be ashamed of more things
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
More people should be ashamed of more things
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
My daughter is now officially hooked on What We Do in the Shadows and correctly pegged Colin Robinson as the best character on the show by the second episode.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My daughter is now officially hooked on What We Do in the Shadows and correctly pegged Colin Robinson as the best character on the show by the second episode.
The whole concept of The Thundermans makes no sense. If you’re trying to be incognito, why would you use your superhero name as your last name? It’s like if Clark Kent went by Clark Superman instead.
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The whole concept of The Thundermans makes no sense. If you’re trying to be incognito, why would you use your superhero name as your last name? It’s like if Clark Kent went by Clark Superman instead.
This is the best possible explanation of fedora man.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This is the best possible explanation of fedora man.
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“You’ll never make it work,” they said. “It’s hubris to even try it,” they said.
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“You’ll never make it work,” they said. “It’s hubris to even try it,” they said.
Saw Steve Hackett perform live last night—fantastic show—but looking around the theatre, I realized that the median age of the audience had to be over 65 (it would have been easy to count the audience members who did NOT hav grey hair)
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Saw Steve Hackett perform live last night—fantastic show—but looking around the theatre, I realized that the median age of the audience had to be over 65 (it would have been easy to count the audience members who did NOT hav grey hair)
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We really gotta stop letting the stupidest people in the country dictate the terms of political discourse, enough is enough
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We really gotta stop letting the stupidest people in the country dictate the terms of political discourse, enough is enough
So I’m thinking I’d like to participate in the broadview anti ice protests Saturday morning. Do I just show up with my sign? Anything I should know beforehand?
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So I’m thinking I’d like to participate in the broadview anti ice protests Saturday morning. Do I just show up with my sign? Anything I should know beforehand?
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM