Joseph Dante
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Joseph Dante
@josephdante.bsky.social
· Dec 8
If Men Had Wings – Salamander Magazine
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My latest publication is a lyric essay, which was selectable as Notable for Best American Essays 2024. You can read it online here: salamandermag.org/if-men-had-w...
I am thankful for: my family, my husband, my kitties.
I am not thankful for: chronic body issues that have completely ruined my relationship to food.
I am not thankful for: chronic body issues that have completely ruined my relationship to food.
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I am thankful for: my family, my husband, my kitties.
I am not thankful for: chronic body issues that have completely ruined my relationship to food.
I am not thankful for: chronic body issues that have completely ruined my relationship to food.
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What even was literary Twitter? Vote in the first round of our bracket to determine the literary internet’s wildest, weirdest, most iconic moment!
What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket
We are gathered here to celebrate the brief, bright, Roman Candle life of Literary Twitter, a mesmerizing and maddening place where the most talented writers used to rub shoulders with the most unb…
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November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
What even was literary Twitter? Vote in the first round of our bracket to determine the literary internet’s wildest, weirdest, most iconic moment!
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I feel like I’ve had 136 separate existential crises this year, at least.
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I feel like I’ve had 136 separate existential crises this year, at least.
Receiving even one AI-generated paper sends me into an existential tailspin.
Why are we doing this? Why am I even here?
Why are we doing this? Why am I even here?
October 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Receiving even one AI-generated paper sends me into an existential tailspin.
Why are we doing this? Why am I even here?
Why are we doing this? Why am I even here?
I’ve realized that most people seem to watch WAY more movies than I do. I watch maybe like 3 or 4 a year. I’d rather be doing other things? Like reading or playing games?
October 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I’ve realized that most people seem to watch WAY more movies than I do. I watch maybe like 3 or 4 a year. I’d rather be doing other things? Like reading or playing games?
Found out I’m receiving research funds to present at a conference + received an acceptance letter from Hayden’s Ferry Review for one of my haibun!
October 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Found out I’m receiving research funds to present at a conference + received an acceptance letter from Hayden’s Ferry Review for one of my haibun!
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To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
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"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..."
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
October 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..."
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
All these incredibly short windows for open submissions.
October 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
All these incredibly short windows for open submissions.
Tired of this vessel.
October 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Tired of this vessel.
Take my poems!!!! Now!!!!!!!
October 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Take my poems!!!! Now!!!!!!!
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It's the end of The Best American Poetry.
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's the end of The Best American Poetry.
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
These past two months have been exhausting, physically and emotionally. I hope you’re well.
September 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
These past two months have been exhausting, physically and emotionally. I hope you’re well.
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I think about this poem all the time
September 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I think about this poem all the time
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Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
Trying, desperately, to stay sane and hold on to any iota of joy I can find.
September 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Trying, desperately, to stay sane and hold on to any iota of joy I can find.
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Charles Simic
September 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Charles Simic
Poets 🤝 the word “wound”
August 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Poets 🤝 the word “wound”
I know I’m depressed when writing feels useless.
August 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I know I’m depressed when writing feels useless.
Is every poem a love poem or an elegy?
August 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Is every poem a love poem or an elegy?
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Me, an edgy teen in the early 00s: lol you can say anything online and just get away with it xD
Me, now, radioing the police: People are literally saying anything online and getting away with it!!!!!!! 🚨 🚨
Me, now, radioing the police: People are literally saying anything online and getting away with it!!!!!!! 🚨 🚨
July 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Me, an edgy teen in the early 00s: lol you can say anything online and just get away with it xD
Me, now, radioing the police: People are literally saying anything online and getting away with it!!!!!!! 🚨 🚨
Me, now, radioing the police: People are literally saying anything online and getting away with it!!!!!!! 🚨 🚨
Me, an edgy teen in the early 00s: lol you can say anything online and just get away with it xD
Me, now, radioing the police: People are literally saying anything online and getting away with it!!!!!!! 🚨 🚨
Me, now, radioing the police: People are literally saying anything online and getting away with it!!!!!!! 🚨 🚨
July 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Me, an edgy teen in the early 00s: lol you can say anything online and just get away with it xD
Me, now, radioing the police: People are literally saying anything online and getting away with it!!!!!!! 🚨 🚨
Me, now, radioing the police: People are literally saying anything online and getting away with it!!!!!!! 🚨 🚨
Tired of hearing/reading “impactful.” Do not use that AI-speak around me or in meetings.
July 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Tired of hearing/reading “impactful.” Do not use that AI-speak around me or in meetings.