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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.

www.davidestringel.com
Wooohooo! My poem "Palo Santo" (from Brujeria) is included in The Alien Buddha's Best of 2025! Thanks,
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social!!!
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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
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
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...
October 4, 2025 at 6:43 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.
September 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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
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
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."

thegorkogazette.com/2025/08/01/s...
August 1, 2025 at 3:52 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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July 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Got a batch of my Shadow Man poems, based on the life and art of GOAT 🐐 street artist Richard Hambleton, coming to you soon at @dailydrunkmag.bsky.social HUGE thanks to Shawn Berman & Seth Borkowski for the acceptance! 🥰
July 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Very excited to have three micro pieces, "Let the Apples Fall," "Lucky Strike," and "Summer of '76, or Boil Boil Toil n Trouble," accepted for Spring '26 publication at @rawheadjournal.bsky.social. Always feels great when a pub gets your work.
July 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Just submitted my last poem for the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project @tupelopress.bsky.social for June. Great experience, as always. Got a couple of ideas of what to do with all these bad boys.
June 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"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
June 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
My micro-fiction piece "Down the Bermuda Highway" is up at Citywide Lunch!

citywidelunch.wordpress.com/down-the-ber...
June 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
South Broadway Ghost Society's Summer 2025 issue is out NOW! Big thanks to @southbroadway.bsky.social and EIC @maiurro.bsky.social for including my poem "Anatomy of a Poet, or This Ol' House" in the issue.

soboghoso.org/summer-2025/
June 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Jazzed to have some of my favorite poems included in Alien Buddha Press's Alien Buddha Loves You Too anthology. Bringin' "Blood Honey," "Medicine," "Boy with a Box Full of Wasps," "Cough Syrup," and "3 AM" out of the archives.
June 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
One of the latest Hambleton-inspired, ekphrastic poems in my Shadowman series, "Shadow Cat, 2004," will creep its way onto The Gorko Gazette's pages later this summer. It ain't your mama's cat poem. Big thanks to Colin Gee for the acceptance.
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Wrapped up Issue #4 of @theargylelitmag.bsky.social earlier this evening. Amidst the craziness, got word earlier this week that Citywide Lunch will publish a microfiction piece of mine, "Down the Bermuda Highway," soon. Very excited to be in such talented company.
June 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Wrote some "Shadowman" poems for June's Tupelo Press 30/30 Project, inspired by the art of Richard Hambleton. Kinda thinking this might become a series. Hmmmm.....
June 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Great news. Got some new poems that will be appearing soon at Apocalypse Confidential and Fevers of the Mind (@feversof.bsky.social). More details coming when I get 'em. Feels good to flex my poetic muscles again.
June 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Two flash fiction pieces, "Black Cherry" and "Ghost," were accepted to day at BULL lit mag. HUGE thanks to Senior Senior Editor of Editing All Stuff & Things Benjamin Drevlow for the acceptance!!!
June 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Just found out tonight that one of my new poems, "Anatomy of a Poet, or This Ol' House," has been accepted by South Broadway Ghost Society @southbroadway.bsky.social for the Summer Edition of their online journal. Big thanks to EIC Brice Maiurro for the acceptance. Glad to be back in SBGS's pages.
June 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Poetry, fiction, and CNF from dark places coming June 28th from Alien Buddha Press!!! #alienbuddhapress
May 31, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Just finished proofing and editing the galley copy for my new book with Alien Buddha Press after a LONG ASS day fielding subs for @theargylelitmag.bsky.social and @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social. Doing one more pass later today to fix line funkiness and then it’s off!
May 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Looks like #AlienBuddhaPress and I are putting our heads together again. Things will get very real and very dark very soon with poetry, fiction, and CNF writen during the darkest period of my life. More details to come...
May 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM