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tommy wyatt blake (he/they)
@tommywyattblake.bsky.social
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poet laureate of timefuckery | author of Many books: For Your Entertainment! (Troublemaker Firestarter); Mutually Assured Destruction (Ethel Zine); DITCHLAPSE / [REALLY AFRAID] (Querencia Press); So, Who's Courage? (Bullshit Lit.); and more
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author copies of Mutually Assured Destruction ( @the-ethelzine.bsky.social ) & For Your Entertainment! ( @troublemakerfire.bsky.social ) turned out so beautiful~

you can find them here: tommywyattblake.weebly.com/books.html
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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SUBMISSIONS OPEN! for two zines~
1) "parabay" seeks submissions inspired by paramore/hayley williams & magdalena bay
2) "the zine of frankenstein" seeks submissions inspired by frankenstein & its many iterations
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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check out these excerpts from FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT! ( @troublemakerfire.bsky.social )

poems can be found in @sageciggs.bsky.social @querenciapress.bsky.social & motheaten mag

preorder here: troublemakerfirestarter.com/product/for-...
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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here are a few excerpts from my upcoming poetry book FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT! with @troublemakerfire.bsky.social

poems in @genrepunkmag.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @miniskirtmag.bsky.social

book is $12+ship, PLUS you get a free issue of troublemaker firestarter when you preorder~
black and white version of the cover for my poetry book FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT! excerpt from the poem "demure? more like demonic [+ TikTok video notes]": "you want to wake up / from this nightmare possessed by the particular / phase of moon, trespasses of memory, and the way / they sever your tongue with stars serrated / by vast darkness, as you loosen to static" excerpt from "[INSERT LONG TITLE HERE] type of lore drop about your relationship to arson": "they say you're afraid to flick on a lighter / as they uncork a bottle of kerosene, / and this is why they want to leave you / in the potential of ruin, bracing to be burned" excerpt from "it's 11:11, make a wish": "you flip through out-of-context / compilations of nights like these. brackish trickling down / your throat when you try to breathe--your eyes unfocused / on the edges of memory"
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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CRASH is now live at Vinegar Press for just $5! it’s a poetry story-in-verse about the implosion of an abusive relationship. thanks to @querenciapress.bsky.social for homing one of these poems <3
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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the issue of fairglow, works inspired by Jane Schoenbrun's films "I Saw The TV Glow" and "We're All Going To The World's Fair", is out now!! check it out~

fairglowmagazine.weebly.com/fairglow-iss...
October 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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LAST READINGS FOR mutually assured destruction ( @the-ethelzine.bsky.social )

DM me to rsvp. reading with @sadeebee.bsky.social on 10/22 at 7 pm ET, then i'm reading with Wong Wingzi ("themagdalenx") on 11/14 at 8 pm ET
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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more excerpts from CRASH, forthcoming with Vinegar Press

release date is on halloween! click the link www.vinegarpress.org/store/p/cras... to order :)

inspired by the #mouthwashinggame horror video game; it follows the disillusionment of an abusive relationship where there is no hope for survival
title card for the microchapbook CRASH by tommy wyatt blake "flashes to yesterday where you’re saying it’s a boundary violation to tell you how you’ve hurt me, how there’s nothing to do but chase it down with blue mouthwash, memory worming away into static" in "when firestarred static worms out" "i wish for the trespasses of your love but time empties to despondent chasms of nothing" in "flashbacks as astral projection" "i crash into survival mode, so i stop asking you for anything" in "moments after the crash"
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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next Mutually Assured Destruction ( @the-ethelzine.bsky.social ) reading will be on thursday, october 9th at 8PM ET! with @ardentlywritten.bsky.social and dre levant

& saturday, october 11th, i'll be reading with @sadeebee.bsky.social at 3PM ET

DM me to RSVP to either event~
discord voice reading with arden will, dre levant, and tommy wyatt blake on october 9th, 2025 at 8pm EST. DM for the link discord reading with Sadee Bee and tommy wyatt blake on october 11th at 3pm EST. DM for the link
October 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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cover drop for my digital title with Vinegar Press. preorder: www.vinegarpress.org/store/p/cras...

CRASH is a short collection of poetry inspired by the horror video game, mouthwashing. it follows the disillusionment °radation of an abusive relationship where there is no hope for survival.
October 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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you can pre-order Mutually Assured Destruction ( @the-ethelzine.bsky.social ) today by clicking on the link in my publisher's bio

check out the blurb by @mkzariel.bsky.social as well as the excerpt from the poem, "#8: PORTALPERSON". the poem was first seen in @feversof.bsky.social
title card post overlayed on a background of a person sitting as someone else gouges out their eyes. the title is Mutually Assured Destruction by tommy wyatt blake. it is published by Ethel Zine in 2025. “The short, incisive, and often surreal poems of this text crackle with blake's characteristic subjectivity. Animated by the joy of synaesthesia and possible/alternate realities, MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION is a delight to read, and will have everyone from the poetry-curious to seasoned readers furiously annotating every page and dreaming of blake's otherworldly visions.” —mk zariel, trans poet and anarchist quote from the poem "#8: PORTALPERSON": "compressed time as haunting as conveyer belt stuck in itself as motionless as voidgender as in spiraling, mechanical breathing as prolonged exposure to dreams as prophetic mirror, not a sword" first published by Fevers of the Mind
September 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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check out the blurb from @lowermelody.bsky.social and the excerpt of the poem "#11: SAVIOR COMPLEX", which was first seen in @feversof.bsky.social

preorder the book through @the-ethelzine.bsky.social
title card post overlayed on a background of a person sitting as someone else gouges out their eyes. the title is Mutually Assured Destruction by tommy wyatt blake. it is published by Ethel Zine in 2025. “Reading tommy wyatt blake’s MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION feels like stumbling upon the notes of a time-and-self scientist from a biohacked future, who has accidentally cloned Schrödinger’s cat using a remote viewing technique learned from religious myth. The compound neologisms that blake’s readers know and love are incisive tools for probing beyond the curtain of subjectivity.” —D.W. Baker, editor of GOD/CORPSE: writing on the bipolar body excerpt from the poem, "#11: SAVIOR COMPLEX": "i broke the galaxy, the fake one that promised things from a dimension so grayalien and strange that it’s unreliable, at best, to the extent that i can’t expect its findings to be Truth—" the poem was first published in Fevers of the Mind
September 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Mutually Assured Destruction is coming soon with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social - check out their website to preorder!

check out the post for a blurb and a quote (poem first seen in @feversof.bsky.social
title card post overlayed on a background of a person sitting as someone else gouges out their eyes. the title is Mutually Assured Destruction by tommy wyatt blake. it is published by Ethel Zine in 2025. “In the background of technology, society, and horror, tommy wyatt blake explores the Self as a form of love and destruction. Each piece subverts norms previously placed on tommy, whether that be through form, content, description, or more. MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION blends the candid, yet raw description of mania with the beauty of the self as horror.” —arushi (aera) rege, author of exit wound (no point of entry), twin exit wound (twin points of entry), & BROWN GIRL EPIPHANY, EIC of ink & ivy lit mag and Bus Talk quote from the poem, "PICK AND CHOOSE": "1. cameras everywhere or 2. contact via magic 8 ball 1. action news ID’ing you or 2. curated lying" originally seen in Fevers of the Mind
September 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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coming to a virtual space soon!! i'm reading with @lowermelody.bsky.social on 9/12 and @mkzariel.bsky.social on 9/13

dm me to RSVP!
discord voice reading with D.W. Baker and tommy wyatt blake on september 12th, 2025 at 8 pm (EST). DM me for the link! discord voice reading with mk zariel and tommy wyatt blake on september 13th at 4 pm (EST). DM me for the link!
August 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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books with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social and self-pub

(ps. all my ko-fi digital titles are on sale for $1.50 this month only!)
advert for tommy wyatt blake's chapbook "Trick Mirror or Your Computer Screen". the background is a purple gradient. the title is at the top, and underneath is the cover of the book. there's a short description for it: "tech, toys, & trauma". and the book is $10 for physical copy, $3 for digital advert for tommy wyatt blake's microchapbook "YOUR CD MIX, VOL. 2". the background is white fading into blue. the title is at the top, and underneath is the cover of the book. there's a short description for it: "pop music & toxic relationships". and the book is $8 for physical copy, $1.50 for digital
August 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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happy #SealeyChallenge 2025! here is a highlight of some of my books, you can find them all here: tommywyattblake.weebly.com/books.html

books with @querenciapress.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social @bullshitlit.bsky.social
advert for tommy wyatt blake's books "DITCHLAPSE" and "[REALLY AFRAID]". the background is a gray gradient. the titles are at the top, and underneath is the cover of the book. there's a short description for it: "self, media, invisible audience, PTSD". and the book is $18for physical copy, $2 for digital advert for tommy wyatt blake's chapbook "disasterfire/disasterstar". the background is a yellow gradient. the title is at the top, and underneath is the cover of the book. there's a short description for it: "poetic & self subversions". and the book is $12 for physical copy, $3 for digital advert for tommy wyatt blake's poetry book "So, Who's Courage?". the background is a pink gradient. the title is at the top, and underneath is the cover of the book. there's a short description for it: "story-in-verse about DV". and the book is $20 for physical copy
August 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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my 4th installment of my queerjune releases is "YOUR CD MIX, VOL. 2" which takes inspiration from yeule, Magdalena Bay, Chappell Roan, Lorde, and others. it follows the disillusionment and disentanglement of a toxic relationship

preorder: ko-fi.com/s/8c8bf3d930 (11 copies left!)
cover of "YOUR CD MIX, VOL. 2" by tommy wyatt blake. it is stylized as a blue CD in its darker blue cover, with the title of the book wrapping around the CD and the author's name along the spine of the CD. back cover for "YOUR CD MIX, VOL. 2", which looks like the back of a CD case with each "song" (poem) listed: 1. WITNESS ME 2. PASTVORTEXTED 3. BLANK DIMENSIONS 4. VESSEL FOR YOU 5. ESOTERIC 6. WHERE'S MY SAVIOR 7. BURN ME, BABY 8. SECRETS While the prior collection in this series begins with a poem drenched in the visceral, YOUR CD MIX, VOL. 2 starts in the narrative world: tommy wyatt blake “scream[s] and scream[s] and scream[s]” (“WITNESS ME”) in this collection. Each poem here talks about surrender, but he transforms that surrender. They write, “i surrender to the moment / when i chose you / crashing in the abyss,” (“WHERE’S MY SAVIOR”). That act of choosing is what brings the narrator from passivity to activity in the final poem of this collection. Take a look and enjoy this narrator’s “celestial and blue” (“VESSEL FOR YOU”) character development. —Aldrin Badiola, editor of Artists from Maryland
June 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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excerpts from the DISASTERSTAR side

www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/dista...
December 11, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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thank you for the advance praise for FIRE/STAR

you can order it here: www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/dista...
December 11, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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more excerpts! in @querenciapress.bsky.social & @publishedbyjake.bsky.social

preorder here: www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/dista...
November 27, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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here's some excerpts from the first side of my upcoming book, DISASTERFIRE (DISASTERSTAR not pictured)
you can preorder the book here: kithbooks.com/shop/p/dista... / kith books

poems found in
@warninglines.bsky.social
@motheatenmag.bsky.social
@querenciapress.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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PREORDER TODAY! my next queer poetry microchapbook releases on june 28th.

MOVIEMOTION is about finding love after trauma. the first 5 orders get a free copy of AFTER & JETTISONED.

$8 total, US orders only

ko-fi.com/s/cb46c8add6
the cover of MOVIEMOTION by tommy wyatt is pasted on a black cardboard background. the cover is 4 movie ticket stubs with the title “moviemotion” in lowercase & “…starring tommy wyatt”; the number (2) is on the right side of each stub. MOVIEMOTION is a queer poetry microchapbook inspired by music & it’s about finding love after trauma. it’s $8 for US orders only, & releases on June 28th, 2024.
June 16, 2024 at 4:53 AM
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my book, NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL HORROR!, is releasing with Gutslut Press on 10/31. order here: t.co/px42UOCFKl

poems published in @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @farthertrees.bsky.social and @auramartin.bsky.social's Dreams & Nightmares anthology
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL HORROR! it out today with Gutslut Press. Here's an excerpt of a poem titled "fresh dirt dreams or dating sucks when you're a deadite": fresh with molasses and fear / the black-dawn air / borrows cold from the ground NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL HORROR! releases tomorrow (10/31/2023) with Gutslut Press. Here's an excerpt from a poem titled "when you bought poltergeist (1982) and got a homemade, found footage film instead": sucked dry / from the next / coming / of dawn NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL HORROR! releases on 10/31/2023 with Gutslut Press. Here's an excerpt of a poem titled "basic graveyard or a horrroscope reading": your body, a lumbering corpse, rings with a sickly dead, yellow light
October 28, 2023 at 5:33 PM