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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · 22d

Got nominated for Best of the Net. Unfortunately for the haters, I seem to be halfway decent at poetry.

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you!

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · 24d

Wrote a poem partially inspired by the @hangmanpage.bsky.social / @swerveconfident.bsky.social feud in AEW and it got published on @bruisermag.com so go check it out 🫡

www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman

HANGMAN by Travis Shosa - BRUISER

Lo, the lone Hangman He arrived, sat upon a Pale horse, grimacing He was great, of course Bound for love and gilded waist Chosen gleaming pain

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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 24d

Hangman doesn’t choose
Who dies, he drops the rope and
The pale horse decides

HANGMAN by Travis Shosa

www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · 29d

Yo! You should watch this!

youtu.be/02atzCSuyls?...

Uncle Emmington (Huntsville, Furniture, & Alphabet Soup) | Cast #107

YouTube video by Gulf Coast Music

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Sep 8

Deactivated my Twitter backup. Don’t know how much I’m gonna be here but maybe more than before, I dunno. I feel like the tiny sense of online community I had has been eradicated the past two years.

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Jul 30

I was previously *very online* because of journalism. Keeping on top of things through socials, networking, etc. Now I don’t need to do that, so I’m online far less often. Will pop in occasionally to share a poem or something.

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hey all, I’m not dead, just really not doing anything with music anymore because the stress/harassment/etc. is not worth it and if I wanted to be treated like crap, working retail would be a better option because the pay is at least consistent.

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Jun 18

Poetry updates:

“Gogoplata,” a *psychosexual* prose poem, has landed on Citywide Lunch.

citywidelunch.wordpress.com/gogoplata-by...

“The Australian Diaspora,” an intertextual cultural satire poem (also with sex puns), has landed on The Gorko Gazette.

thegorkogazette.com/2025/06/18/t...

New content every morning!

Now I eat nothing but shrimp on the Barbie™

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Jun 8

Still waiting on Twitter to deal with my account hack. I’m like barely frustrated about it now? I dunno, I’ve been online for like maybe half an hour total this weekend and it’s great. Been doing the Retsnom route in Hundred Line, wrote some poetry, lots of meditation. I think social media sucks.

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Jun 6

*thing

Anyways yeah I’m trying to sort it out but it’s a process.

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Jun 6

Whole damn this is a mess but it went back to what it was kinda? No profile pic anymore though. Whoever hacked my account is having a weird one.

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Jun 6

So this is what’s going on with my Twitter account right now.

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Jun 6

Well, time to be on here a bit more since I have been bodysnatched on Twitter. I have been doing poems. 3 acceptances this week! I made a bad website you can check out. 🫡

www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com/published-po...

Published Poems — Travis Shosa is doing poems

www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Jun 6

My personal Twitter account @tsdenizen has been hacked. It's private so I can't monitor it at all, but please disregard everything from that account until further notice.

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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · May 30

Why not read my new piece at BRUISER? www.bruisermag.com/zeller_cubist

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · May 30

Very stoked to have made my @bruisermag.com debut with “The Limbo of Coolness,” a poem that is a triptych but also a stand-up monologue but also an essay about masking with enjambments rooted in jazz theory and I will shut up now just uh give it a read I guess 🫡

www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo

THE LIMBO OF COOLNESS by Travis Shosa - BRUISER

When I was in school, a Real Stunner imparted that I was “Cooler than I looked,” which I took to mean that I was built like a mathlete but mentally

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Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social · May 25

Here’s an incredible review of my latest chapbook, written by @travisshosa.bsky.social for Eulogy Press. eulogy.press#fruit-and-an...

Eulogy Press

A literary magazine that rejects what's safe to create something meaningful.

eulogy.press

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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · May 29

When I was in school, a Real
Stunner imparted that I was
“Cooler than I looked,” which
I took to mean that I was built
like a mathlete but mentally ill.

THE LIMBO OF COOLNESS by @travisshosa.bsky.social

www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · May 2

Two things:

1) new poem up on Eulogy Press. It’s short, stupid, and a little sad. Check it out if you want.

2) I am going to try to be online a little less for a while. I’ve hit a breaking point. It took more than a year but I can’t really deal right now.

www.eulogy.press/everythin-go...

Eulogy Press - everythin gonna turn round when stop thinkin i’m tom green

everythin gonna turn round when stop thinkin i’m tom green by Travis Shosa

www.eulogy.press

Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Apr 28

I am a poet (?) of the people

Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Apr 26

Wild to think I started writing poetry in earnest last month and I got something on Maudlin House and I just got another poem picked up for what will eventually be a print anthology. And I’ve got enough written for a full collection (but it’s still only half done). Feeling creatively fulfilled rn.

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Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social · Apr 15

notes app apology but i wrote the shit in wingdings so you know i am fr fr (translated) by Travis Shosa

maudlinhouse.net/notes-app-ap...

notes app apology but i wrote the shit in wingdings so you know i am fr fr (translated)

What do you mean you’re deferring the Palestinian rapper feature because it’s not the right time? I’m sorry for thinking you had a backbone I thought you were anti-colonial What do you mean you ...

maudlinhouse.net

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Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social · Apr 15

In some ways, very silly that *this* is my poetry publishing debut. In others, very fitting.

Thank you to @maudlinhouse.bsky.social.

I'm sorry.

maudlinhouse.net/notes-app-ap...

notes app apology but i wrote the shit in wingdings so you know i am fr fr (translated)

What do you mean you’re deferring the Palestinian rapper feature because it’s not the right time? I’m sorry for thinking you had a backbone I thought you were anti-colonial What do you mean you ...

maudlinhouse.net

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Grant Sharples @grantsharpies.bsky.social · Apr 14

Kinda wild how it’s the freelancer’s job to find the right publication for a pitch, craft it, follow up and pray for a response, and then maybe (!) write the story, act as middleman between PR and editorial, send an invoice so people don’t forget to pay them, and run it back lol

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