Jay Orlando
@jayorlando.bsky.social
Pushcart nominated poet, trans, ttrpg nerd. Roots so deep in Appalachia I can feel the coal mines between my toes.
Well, I didn't win the chapbook contest, but placing in the top 8 makes me optimistic. If there's any editors out there looking for a weird little poetry chapbook that explores falling in and then out of love with a best friend through the lens of David Lynch with trans/queer themes... well hmu!
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Well, I didn't win the chapbook contest, but placing in the top 8 makes me optimistic. If there's any editors out there looking for a weird little poetry chapbook that explores falling in and then out of love with a best friend through the lens of David Lynch with trans/queer themes... well hmu!
My 'Strange World' chapbook has placed as one of 8 finalists in Red Flag's annual chapbook contest! I have high hopes for this weird little David Lynch inspired book.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My 'Strange World' chapbook has placed as one of 8 finalists in Red Flag's annual chapbook contest! I have high hopes for this weird little David Lynch inspired book.
On Monday I signed on with Last Picked Books out of Pittsburgh for my next poetry chapbook, due out early 2026. It's queer and holy and wholly mine. Watch this space!
October 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
On Monday I signed on with Last Picked Books out of Pittsburgh for my next poetry chapbook, due out early 2026. It's queer and holy and wholly mine. Watch this space!
You ever think about how we have a societal stereotype that mental illness makes people more likely to be creatives when really creatives are likely to be mentally ill because to be an artist is to have empathy in a society that actively punishes the empathetic?
October 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You ever think about how we have a societal stereotype that mental illness makes people more likely to be creatives when really creatives are likely to be mentally ill because to be an artist is to have empathy in a society that actively punishes the empathetic?
I'll definitely be submitting - will you?
Submissions open November 1 and close at the end of the month for an issue that will go live in early 2026. No fee, no theme.
hobocampreview.blogspot.com/p/submission...
hobocampreview.blogspot.com/p/submission...
October 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I'll definitely be submitting - will you?
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It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
That awkward moment when you get a rejection from a press you forgot you submitted to in the midst of discussing the publication of that manuscript with two different presses. Oops.
October 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
That awkward moment when you get a rejection from a press you forgot you submitted to in the midst of discussing the publication of that manuscript with two different presses. Oops.
Six months later I've finished my David Lynch inspired poetry chapbook about the dissolution of a friendship and trying to understand the nature of the "self". Now I need to find a publisher...
September 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Six months later I've finished my David Lynch inspired poetry chapbook about the dissolution of a friendship and trying to understand the nature of the "self". Now I need to find a publisher...
New poem up! I'm working on a David Lynch inspired poetry chapbook and this is the first of those poems to find a home.
hobocampreview.blogspot.com?m=1
hobocampreview.blogspot.com?m=1
Hobo Camp Review
poetry & prose from the road
hobocampreview.blogspot.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
New poem up! I'm working on a David Lynch inspired poetry chapbook and this is the first of those poems to find a home.
hobocampreview.blogspot.com?m=1
hobocampreview.blogspot.com?m=1
was nearly in tears getting to be in the front row to see @laurajanegrace.bsky.social in Pittsburgh tonight. Been a fan since 2007ish, we came out as trans within a year of each other. Finally getting to go to a concert was moving in ways I can't quite articulate.
July 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
was nearly in tears getting to be in the front row to see @laurajanegrace.bsky.social in Pittsburgh tonight. Been a fan since 2007ish, we came out as trans within a year of each other. Finally getting to go to a concert was moving in ways I can't quite articulate.
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This is just gross
How to write, according to the bestselling novelist of all time
Agatha Christie teaches a new writing course—with help from AI
www.economist.com
May 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This is just gross
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In a world where you can be anything, be unkind to transphobes.
May 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In a world where you can be anything, be unkind to transphobes.
Recent poem about recent events
May 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Recent poem about recent events
Haven't posted here in a while. The end of April/beginning of May has been wild - mostly in the best ways. Readings, afterparties, drafting chapbooks, etc. Now I have a lot of material to find homes for. Happy writing!
May 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Haven't posted here in a while. The end of April/beginning of May has been wild - mostly in the best ways. Readings, afterparties, drafting chapbooks, etc. Now I have a lot of material to find homes for. Happy writing!
I've been writing like a fiend lately. A haibun here, a prose poem there, some hybrid stuff. Feels good.
April 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I've been writing like a fiend lately. A haibun here, a prose poem there, some hybrid stuff. Feels good.
working on a little zine project to walk people through one approach to writing a poem. It functions basically as a step-by-step of how I would teach a poetry course, in direct refutation of the way I was taught.
April 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
working on a little zine project to walk people through one approach to writing a poem. It functions basically as a step-by-step of how I would teach a poetry course, in direct refutation of the way I was taught.
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Want to feel old? Children's author JK Rowling is now a shambling monster made of mold
April 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Want to feel old? Children's author JK Rowling is now a shambling monster made of mold
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if you're a U.S. voter and you claim to want more for trans folks than just visibility, you can dedicate 2 to 8 minutes to us a week.
March 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
if you're a U.S. voter and you claim to want more for trans folks than just visibility, you can dedicate 2 to 8 minutes to us a week.
Trans Day of "I'm so fucking tired"
March 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Trans Day of "I'm so fucking tired"
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Happy #TransDayofVisibility. Now put the T back on the Stonewall monument.
March 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Happy #TransDayofVisibility. Now put the T back on the Stonewall monument.
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Just going to say, visibility without support kinda blows. See us, hear us, but more importantly support us in actual, concrete ways. #TDOV
March 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Just going to say, visibility without support kinda blows. See us, hear us, but more importantly support us in actual, concrete ways. #TDOV
I've got one published book, two finished chapbooks out for consideration, and a third that is 3/4 written and I *still* feel like an imposter most days.
March 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I've got one published book, two finished chapbooks out for consideration, and a third that is 3/4 written and I *still* feel like an imposter most days.
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“I’m doing good things,” I tell myself as I delete the military service of a dead woman. “I’m still a good person.”
Iconic Golden Girls actress Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her contribution scrubbed from Department of Defence website
Web page about iconic Golden Girls actress becomes latest victim of DEI purge
Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her wartime contribution scrubbed from the Department of Defence (DOD) website. The URL now reads "DEIBefore".
www.thepinknews.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
“I’m doing good things,” I tell myself as I delete the military service of a dead woman. “I’m still a good person.”
Starting to look for homes for some of my David Lynch poems as I continue to write more. This project has turned into a chapbook that uses imagery and quotations from David Lynch's work to explore the painful dissolution of a close friendship that first exposed me to David Lynch. Also gender stuff.
March 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Starting to look for homes for some of my David Lynch poems as I continue to write more. This project has turned into a chapbook that uses imagery and quotations from David Lynch's work to explore the painful dissolution of a close friendship that first exposed me to David Lynch. Also gender stuff.