David Estringel
@davidestringel.bsky.social
Writer+EIC @The Argyle @Blood+Honey🖊The Opiate, Punk Noir, The Gorko Gazette, BULL, Mythic Picnic, Citywide Lunch, Street Cake, Cowboy Jamboree, Fevers of the Mind, Apocalypse Confidential, Literary Heist, and The Daily Drunk.
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"Life leaves marks time & splashes of gin can't take away"
Down the Bermuda Highway tinyurl.com/24zx9nxy
Brujeria tinyurl.com/mpbx3bph
Blind Turns in the Kitchen Sink tinyurl.com/xt9upxat
little punctures tinyurl.com/3tw9teem
Cold Comfort House tinyurl.com/3u55yy7b
Blood Honey tinyurl.com/5n6vc4ms
Down the Bermuda Highway tinyurl.com/24zx9nxy
Brujeria tinyurl.com/mpbx3bph
Blind Turns in the Kitchen Sink tinyurl.com/xt9upxat
little punctures tinyurl.com/3tw9teem
Cold Comfort House tinyurl.com/3u55yy7b
Blood Honey tinyurl.com/5n6vc4ms
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🌟SUBS OPEN🌟 Blood + Honey + The Velvet Underground @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Rules of Verse: Poems Inspired by The Velvet Underground🖤Send us your evocative + crazy poems about VU! Subs close Dec. 15. EIC @davidestringel.bsky.social Poetry eds. @hubbsd.bsky.social @seangmeggeson.bsky.social #poetry
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
🌟SUBS OPEN🌟 Blood + Honey + The Velvet Underground @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Rules of Verse: Poems Inspired by The Velvet Underground🖤Send us your evocative + crazy poems about VU! Subs close Dec. 15. EIC @davidestringel.bsky.social Poetry eds. @hubbsd.bsky.social @seangmeggeson.bsky.social #poetry
Wooohooo! My poem "Palo Santo" (from Brujeria) is included in The Alien Buddha's Best of 2025! Thanks,
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social!!!
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social!!!
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Wooohooo! My poem "Palo Santo" (from Brujeria) is included in The Alien Buddha's Best of 2025! Thanks,
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social!!!
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social!!!
Wooohooo! My poem "Pomogranates" (from Down the Bermuday Highway) is included in The Alien Buddha's Best of 2025! Thanks, @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social!
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Wooohooo! My poem "Pomogranates" (from Down the Bermuday Highway) is included in The Alien Buddha's Best of 2025! Thanks, @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social!
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Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and his team at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new story, "The Screams of the Jellyfish," in their October issue!
Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.
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Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.
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the screams of jellyfish — Blood+Honey
by Michael Czyzniejewski “ One by one, they fell into the trap, each jellyfish pierced on a different spike, their jelly seeping out, oozing down the wood. Worse, the jellyfish were screaming...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and his team at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new story, "The Screams of the Jellyfish," in their October issue!
Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.
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Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.
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The Opiate's @theopiatemag Fall 25 issue is out, along with my CNF piece "Dishes Best Served Cold." BIG thanks to EIC Genna Rivieccio for the acceptance. Still one of my favorite lit mags EVER!
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The Opiate: Fall 2025, Vol. 43
Is it fall or just the fall of humanity? Whatever your take, The Opiate, Vol. 43 is here to help you during this difficult time of AI revolution/human work and art overthrow. To combat your woes, dive
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October 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Opiate's @theopiatemag Fall 25 issue is out, along with my CNF piece "Dishes Best Served Cold." BIG thanks to EIC Genna Rivieccio for the acceptance. Still one of my favorite lit mags EVER!
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Looks like I'll be doing a creative presentation at the 2026 Southern Humanities Conference “Tides and Time, Ebbs and Flows” in Annapolis, MD in early Spring. Gonna read selected poems from my upcoming poetry collection 'Bucolia." This will be my 2nd one with SHC. Very excited!
October 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Looks like I'll be doing a creative presentation at the 2026 Southern Humanities Conference “Tides and Time, Ebbs and Flows” in Annapolis, MD in early Spring. Gonna read selected poems from my upcoming poetry collection 'Bucolia." This will be my 2nd one with SHC. Very excited!
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FYI: Blood + Honey Submittable porthole is ready to roll for Rules of Verse: Poetry Inspired by The Velvet Underground. @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
FYI: Blood + Honey Submittable porthole is ready to roll for Rules of Verse: Poetry Inspired by The Velvet Underground. @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
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Poem, "Roseblood," in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
"Fictile Feelings" (Poetry Special, October '25) Issue. 🥰 to Guest Editor S. Sethi!
"...turn your blind eyes from this solemn procession / and the roseblood underfoot / some spots aren’t meant to wash away."
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"Fictile Feelings" (Poetry Special, October '25) Issue. 🥰 to Guest Editor S. Sethi!
"...turn your blind eyes from this solemn procession / and the roseblood underfoot / some spots aren’t meant to wash away."
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October 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Poem, "Roseblood," in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
"Fictile Feelings" (Poetry Special, October '25) Issue. 🥰 to Guest Editor S. Sethi!
"...turn your blind eyes from this solemn procession / and the roseblood underfoot / some spots aren’t meant to wash away."
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/ficti...
"Fictile Feelings" (Poetry Special, October '25) Issue. 🥰 to Guest Editor S. Sethi!
"...turn your blind eyes from this solemn procession / and the roseblood underfoot / some spots aren’t meant to wash away."
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/ficti...
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General submissions are now OPEN for Issue #6, scheduled for publication December 15, 2025 @ 6 PM CST. Send us your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!!
October 1, 2025 at 5:08 AM
General submissions are now OPEN for Issue #6, scheduled for publication December 15, 2025 @ 6 PM CST. Send us your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!!
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Subs open tomorrow! Looking forward to reading your VU-inspired lines! @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
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Guest Poetry Editor @seangmeggeson.bsky.social
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September 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Subs open tomorrow! Looking forward to reading your VU-inspired lines! @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
EIC @davidestringel.bsky.social
Poetry Editor @hubbsd.bsky.social
Guest Poetry Editor @seangmeggeson.bsky.social
#poetry #poetrysubmissions
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Poetry Editor @hubbsd.bsky.social
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Thrilled to have a salty little micro up in the great @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social ! Thank you
@davidestringel.bsky.social for having it!!
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@davidestringel.bsky.social for having it!!
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the haunt of age: a 5-step program for ghosting your ghost — Blood+Honey
by Karen Crawford “…anticipate your ghost’s surprise when she floats into the bedroom where your new nipped/tucked body lies. If she goes all poltergeist, rattle, and chain, flash her a ‘friendly’ s...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Thrilled to have a salty little micro up in the great @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social ! Thank you
@davidestringel.bsky.social for having it!!
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@davidestringel.bsky.social for having it!!
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BIG thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social and EIC @thedrevlow.bsky.social for accepting my two micros, "Black Cherry" and "Ghost"!!! 🐂
"Kill me softly with your lipstick mouth, glistening like bloodhoney—haunted by spirits— under the slow burn of this bar light sun."
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September 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
BIG thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social and EIC @thedrevlow.bsky.social for accepting my two micros, "Black Cherry" and "Ghost"!!! 🐂
Woohoo! Gonna have my CNF piece "Dishes Best Served Cold" (originally published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) reprinted in The Opiate's Fall print issue. Love that mag! BIG thanks to Genna for the acceptance.
September 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Woohoo! Gonna have my CNF piece "Dishes Best Served Cold" (originally published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) reprinted in The Opiate's Fall print issue. Love that mag! BIG thanks to Genna for the acceptance.
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Subs open in 🖤🔟🖤days!
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September 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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“The Velvet Underground won’t replace anything … except maybe suicide.” --Cher.
Rules of Verse: subs open Oct 1
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September 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
“The Velvet Underground won’t replace anything … except maybe suicide.” --Cher.
Rules of Verse: subs open Oct 1
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It is only with the support of journals like @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social and the hard work of editors like @davidestringel.bsky.social that we can reach new audiences and find the reciprocal energies to keep putting work out. Thank you
September 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It is only with the support of journals like @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social and the hard work of editors like @davidestringel.bsky.social that we can reach new audiences and find the reciprocal energies to keep putting work out. Thank you
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September 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Got a couple of poems, "Shadowhead (Yellow), 2017" and "Dirty Back Road," up at Apocalypse Confidential. BIG thanks to the editorial team for publishing these pieces.
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“SHADOWHEAD (YELLOW), 2017” – “DIRTY BLACK ROAD”
Shadowhead (Yellow), 2017 –after Richard Hambleton (1952-2017) soul projectionmindscramble ejectionscorched‘cross the slickof a jaundice skycreepingseepingscreamingweeping,polyester emanation…
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September 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Got a couple of poems, "Shadowhead (Yellow), 2017" and "Dirty Back Road," up at Apocalypse Confidential. BIG thanks to the editorial team for publishing these pieces.
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My latest WiR story on my favorite lit journal @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social came out last night and it's about brotherhood/sisterhood against hardship/grief.
Thank you @davidestringel.bsky.social for giving it a beautiful home ❤️
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Thank you @davidestringel.bsky.social for giving it a beautiful home ❤️
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September 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
My latest WiR story on my favorite lit journal @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social came out last night and it's about brotherhood/sisterhood against hardship/grief.
Thank you @davidestringel.bsky.social for giving it a beautiful home ❤️
www.bloodhoneylit.com/mileva-anast...
Thank you @davidestringel.bsky.social for giving it a beautiful home ❤️
www.bloodhoneylit.com/mileva-anast...
Poem "The Density of Negative Space"
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The Density of Negative Space
by: David Estringel
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September 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Poem "The Density of Negative Space"
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New poem "The Density of Negative Space" accepted for publication at Cataloguing Poetry Magazine. BIG thanks to @poetjohncompton.bsky.social for the acceptance.
September 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM
New poem "The Density of Negative Space" accepted for publication at Cataloguing Poetry Magazine. BIG thanks to @poetjohncompton.bsky.social for the acceptance.
Psyched to have my new poem "Roseblood" accepted for publication in The Hooghly Review's @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social special issue in October '25. BIG thanks for Sanjeev Sethi for the acceptance.
August 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Psyched to have my new poem "Roseblood" accepted for publication in The Hooghly Review's @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social special issue in October '25. BIG thanks for Sanjeev Sethi for the acceptance.
Got a mini-collection of (mostly) ekphrastic poems published today at @dailydrunkmag.bsky.social about the life and art of street art GOAT Richard Hambleton. BIG thanks to the editors at The Daily Drunk for the acceptance.
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Shadow Man Poems (inspired by the life and art of Richard Hambleton)
Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash . . Blood Flowers, 2003 –after Richard Hambleton (1952-2017) . Red petal…
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August 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Got a mini-collection of (mostly) ekphrastic poems published today at @dailydrunkmag.bsky.social about the life and art of street art GOAT Richard Hambleton. BIG thanks to the editors at The Daily Drunk for the acceptance.
dailydrunkmag.com/2025/08/18/s...
dailydrunkmag.com/2025/08/18/s...
Big thanks to The Gorko Gazette and EIC Colin Gee for publishing "Shadow Cat, 2004," an ekphrastic poem based upon one of Richard Hambleton's shadow art pieces and his heroin addiction--metaphorically "the shadow cat."
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August 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Big thanks to The Gorko Gazette and EIC Colin Gee for publishing "Shadow Cat, 2004," an ekphrastic poem based upon one of Richard Hambleton's shadow art pieces and his heroin addiction--metaphorically "the shadow cat."
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Thrilled to have my micro piece "Down the Bermuda Highway" reprinted by Mythic Picnic. HUGE thanks to the editors for accepting this piece that was originally published at the very cool Citywide Lunch (citywidelunch.wordpress.com)
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July 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Thrilled to have my micro piece "Down the Bermuda Highway" reprinted by Mythic Picnic. HUGE thanks to the editors for accepting this piece that was originally published at the very cool Citywide Lunch (citywidelunch.wordpress.com)
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