@thejayestofzees
Queer, nonbinary writer in rural MI. BLISS ROAD (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025) Poetry editor for @longandshortlit.bsky.social Poems fc in Ploughshares, Foglifter, wildness, The Shore, & more https://linktr.ee/joshuazeitler
✂️ ISSUE 8: COLLAGE IS LIVE!✂️
W/in these pgs contributors remix works from our past 7 issues creating something bold & new!
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I began the day reading Renee Gladman’s Calamities.
I’m selling this DIY chapbook, The Transition Diaries, to help fund an upcoming move. It has a lot of my most intimate and vulnerable work to date—$14 includes shipping. Message me if interested!
POEM 301: "Something Borrowed" by Frances Klein (@fklein907.bsky.social)
I go into the deli and ask the old man behind the counter if I can borrow his cufflinks. He says he stole them from a coffin, and it’s no kind of luck to bring dead gold to a living altar
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Today is the release date for the Winter Issue of @pshares.bsky.social, which happens to hold the most ridiculously heartfelt poem I’ve ever written: “Last night I watched two flies make love”! Get your copy of the issue now!
It's here!! 🎉
Submissions are OPEN! No fee, no theme, no moderation! Send us your longest and your shortest work!
“i never knew what it was like to be untouched / in this new body.”
Love this one by Leander He 💙
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I texted my friend “Haven’t gotten a rejection in a week, neg me daddy,” & then forgot so when he did I was a little mad but really he was just being a pal
Time to share our final piece of the year---a flash fiction piece by Rowan Tate!
Happy holidays to all who celebrate and we’ll see you in the new year! 2026!
PS - We are now open for general submissions! Send us your work!
Read Here:
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So when is the George Santos biopic coming out?
I’ve been failing at my slut phase but I did trick my therapist into using the phrase “finger-sucking vibe” so that’s one win.
Aw thank you Stefanie!!! 💙💙💙
ICYMI we're open for subs!
Check out our guidelines for this special issue: engineidling.net/submissionguidelines
It’s the first Thursday of a release month! Please read and enjoy the first publication of our December issue: “I will never meet Robert Redford,” a poem by Lyndie Blevins.
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Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects.
This #Spotlight is on Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social!
Volume II from The Long and The Short of It drops this week! Our Fiction and CNF editor, Mary, addresses our December publications and exciting news for upcoming issues!
Read at the link below, and please subscribe to our Substack!
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Thrilled to have my contributor’s copies of @foglifterpress.bsky.social arrive yesterday!! Much love to Chad Koch & the editors—I couldn’t dream of a better home for these poems that are so dear to me. 💙💙
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤
Our #spotlight is on Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
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If anyone rejects me today, shame on them, but I’ll be thankful
"Your project to promote 'gender ideology' unfortunately does not align with our priorities." —NEA Notice of Termination
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When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.
Strong wind—
from A River Dies of Thirst by Mahmoud Darwish
Let me tell you, I am working this chair…
Well shit the new Florence GOT me
Opening Tuesdays with Morrie this weekend!
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤
Our #spotlight is on Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social !
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GREAT NEWS! We’re extending our submissions for the upcoming December issue, Sweater in the Attic! Deadline extended to 11/10–next Monday! Send us your work!
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***thinks very hard about death***
Tooooootally reworking the manuscript again… working on some new poems. Rethinking the core of the collection. Ready to get those papers EVERYWHERE
