Joshua Zeitler
@thejayestofzees.bsky.social
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
Poetry editor for @longandshortlit.bsky.social
Poems fc in Ploughshares, Foglifter, wildness, The Shore, & more
https://linktr.ee/joshuazeitler
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Joshua Zeitler | Bliss Road
Bliss Road: poems by Joshua Zeitler. Number 24 in our Rane Arroyo Series. Release date: July 31, 2025 [100 copies] 25 pages ISBN: 978...
sevenkitchens.blogspot.com
The link is live!! You can now order my debut chapbook BLISS ROAD from @sevenkitchenspress.bsky.social!!
Many thanks to Ron Mohring, who has been wonderful throughout this process.
sevenkitchens.blogspot.com/2025/07/josh...
Many thanks to Ron Mohring, who has been wonderful throughout this process.
sevenkitchens.blogspot.com/2025/07/josh...
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ICYMI we're open for subs!
Check out our guidelines for this special issue: engineidling.net/submissionguidelines
Check out our guidelines for this special issue: engineidling.net/submissionguidelines
OPEN SUBS for e(i8: Collage!
We're inviting YOU to remix much of our archive!
We want your cut-ups, golden shovels, frankenpoems, etc!
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We're inviting YOU to remix much of our archive!
We want your cut-ups, golden shovels, frankenpoems, etc!
See guidelines for details/limitations: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP
#poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #indielit #litmag #callforsubs #opensubs #artcommunity
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
ICYMI we're open for subs!
Check out our guidelines for this special issue: engineidling.net/submissionguidelines
Check out our guidelines for this special issue: engineidling.net/submissionguidelines
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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.
Read Here: longandshortlit.substack.com/p/i-will-nev...
Read Here: longandshortlit.substack.com/p/i-will-nev...
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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.
Read Here: longandshortlit.substack.com/p/i-will-nev...
Read Here: longandshortlit.substack.com/p/i-will-nev...
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Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/eHwvv5k!
Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects.
This #Spotlight is on Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social!
Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects.
This #Spotlight is on Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social!
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/eHwvv5k!
Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects.
This #Spotlight is on Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social!
Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects.
This #Spotlight is on Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social!
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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!
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/letter-fro...
Read at the link below, and please subscribe to our Substack!
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/letter-fro...
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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!
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/letter-fro...
Read at the link below, and please subscribe to our Substack!
longandshortlit.substack.com/p/letter-fro...
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. 💙💙
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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. 💙💙
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🖤 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!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
Our #spotlight is on Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
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November 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🖤 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!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
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
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If anyone rejects me today, shame on them, but I’ll be thankful
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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.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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.
from A River Dies of Thirst by Mahmoud Darwish
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
from A River Dies of Thirst by Mahmoud Darwish
Let me tell you, I am working this chair…
November 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Let me tell you, I am working this chair…
Well shit the new Florence GOT me
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Well shit the new Florence GOT me
Opening Tuesdays with Morrie this weekend!
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Opening Tuesdays with Morrie this weekend!
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🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤
Our #spotlight is on Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
Our #spotlight is on Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤
Our #spotlight is on Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
Our #spotlight is on Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
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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!
open.substack.com/pub/longands...
open.substack.com/pub/longands...
December's Theme: Sweater in the Attic
We'll provide the attic, you bring the sweater.
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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!
open.substack.com/pub/longands...
open.substack.com/pub/longands...
***thinks very hard about death***
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
***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
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Tooooootally reworking the manuscript again… working on some new poems. Rethinking the core of the collection. Ready to get those papers EVERYWHERE
Lovely little poem dropped today in a lovely little issue of Anacapa Review from @gunpowderpress.bsky.social
Give some love and attention to myself, Mickie Kennedy, January Gill O’Neil & more!!…
anacapareview.com/joshua-zeitl...
Give some love and attention to myself, Mickie Kennedy, January Gill O’Neil & more!!…
anacapareview.com/joshua-zeitl...
Joshua Zeitler
The Eiffel Tower Lift Has Only Women in It One of them is afraid of falling in love with an astronaut-in-training. If he should fail, how could she compare with the thrilling boredom of space travel, ...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Lovely little poem dropped today in a lovely little issue of Anacapa Review from @gunpowderpress.bsky.social
Give some love and attention to myself, Mickie Kennedy, January Gill O’Neil & more!!…
anacapareview.com/joshua-zeitl...
Give some love and attention to myself, Mickie Kennedy, January Gill O’Neil & more!!…
anacapareview.com/joshua-zeitl...
I want a man who’s at least 6’ tall. Just thinking about that. A really tall man.
October 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I want a man who’s at least 6’ tall. Just thinking about that. A really tall man.
New round of MS revision almost done—the longer I spend on this thing, the more I can taste it.
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
New round of MS revision almost done—the longer I spend on this thing, the more I can taste it.
I cannot—I repeat canNOT—overstate how amazing the new Brandi Carlile is my God save our hearts from the lesbian singer songwriters this is CRUEL
October 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I cannot—I repeat canNOT—overstate how amazing the new Brandi Carlile is my God save our hearts from the lesbian singer songwriters this is CRUEL
Hello my pretties 💙
October 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hello my pretties 💙
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Hippie Speedball will be available for preorder tomorrow!!!
October 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Hippie Speedball will be available for preorder tomorrow!!!
Yes—some really great work in here!! *wink wink* Read it & share it & get some free swag!
🖤SATURDAY #Giveaway for e(i7🖤
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FREE to read, download, & share! buff.ly/Z8rgDrq
Interact w this post thru the weekend to help boost our contributors & we'll send you FREE STICKERS!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
October 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Yes—some really great work in here!! *wink wink* Read it & share it & get some free swag!
I have a new inspirational mug for my morning tea at work
October 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I have a new inspirational mug for my morning tea at work