mosh pit daria
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
poet laureate of the void • many books in many places • proud dad of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social • mica/ubalt alum • they
📍unceded piscataway + susquehannock land (baltimore)
visit me online @ natraum.com/links
📍unceded piscataway + susquehannock land (baltimore)
visit me online @ natraum.com/links
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mosh pit daria
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
· Jan 24
as mainstream social media seemingly disintegrates more by the day, friendly reminder that following my substack is by far the best way to stay updated on my practice
natraum.substack.com
natraum.substack.com
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"If apathy and despair are getting the better of you in these times with gasoline is the fuel you need to rebirth your phoenix."
- Sarah Klein, author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
kithbooks.com/shop/p/withgasoline
- Sarah Klein, author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
kithbooks.com/shop/p/withgasoline
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"If apathy and despair are getting the better of you in these times with gasoline is the fuel you need to rebirth your phoenix."
- Sarah Klein, author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
kithbooks.com/shop/p/withgasoline
- Sarah Klein, author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
kithbooks.com/shop/p/withgasoline
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hello all semi/nonhuman entities & accomplices, i'm editing a @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog series on multispecies / alterhuman writing, and submissions are open now through Dec 15!!!
You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!
fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!
fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
hello all semi/nonhuman entities & accomplices, i'm editing a @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog series on multispecies / alterhuman writing, and submissions are open now through Dec 15!!!
You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!
fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!
fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
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November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Ditto. Adding @bullshitlit.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @maudlinhouse.bsky.social @splitlippress.com @whitestagpub.bsky.social
Small press books make great gifts. Pass it on!
Check out beautifully written & well designed books from @thirtywestph.com, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, @malarkeybooks.bsky.social, @sundresspub.bsky.social & Stanchion. Support small businesses & give the readers in your life something new! Win-win.
Check out beautifully written & well designed books from @thirtywestph.com, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, @malarkeybooks.bsky.social, @sundresspub.bsky.social & Stanchion. Support small businesses & give the readers in your life something new! Win-win.
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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"equating “writing” with “publishing” is a slippery slope to requiring external validation to continue making work (and believing in said work) [...] this is often a toxic creative model, as it also causes one to devalue their work if it does not receive the attention its creator is hoping for."
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"equating “writing” with “publishing” is a slippery slope to requiring external validation to continue making work (and believing in said work) [...] this is often a toxic creative model, as it also causes one to devalue their work if it does not receive the attention its creator is hoping for."
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this was such a great, invaluable read.
i rarely tease my own substack posts, but i wrote a lengthy essay about publishing that i am pretty proud of, and i'm releasing it for free tomorrow at noon EST.
natraum.substack.com to get it to your inbox—be sure to subscribe to "hard pills to swallow"
natraum.substack.com to get it to your inbox—be sure to subscribe to "hard pills to swallow"
the pool | nat raum | Substack
Queer "artist" and "writer" based in Baltimore. Fan of ambient music, open-world RPGs, noise-cancelling headphones, reality tv, and bisexual lighting (preferably all at once). Click to read the pool, ...
natraum.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
this was such a great, invaluable read.
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Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees!
em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Mac Wilder
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Read their work at beestungmag.com
em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Mac Wilder
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Read their work at beestungmag.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees!
em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Mac Wilder
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Read their work at beestungmag.com
em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Mac Wilder
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Read their work at beestungmag.com
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BIG congrats to manyworlds contribs @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @selizabeth.bsky.social, and Yufan Lu!!!! <3 we love beestung so much.
Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees!
em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Yufan Lu
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Read their work at beestungmag.com
em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Yufan Lu
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Read their work at beestungmag.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
BIG congrats to manyworlds contribs @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @selizabeth.bsky.social, and Yufan Lu!!!! <3 we love beestung so much.
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Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees!
em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Yufan Lu
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Read their work at beestungmag.com
em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Yufan Lu
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Read their work at beestungmag.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees!
em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Yufan Lu
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Read their work at beestungmag.com
em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Yufan Lu
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Read their work at beestungmag.com
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nat is 100% someone you should be listening to on these topics. Lotta good advice in here!
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
nat is 100% someone you should be listening to on these topics. Lotta good advice in here!
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
for the evening crowd
i rarely tease my own substack posts, but i wrote a lengthy essay about publishing that i am pretty proud of, and i'm releasing it for free tomorrow at noon EST.
natraum.substack.com to get it to your inbox—be sure to subscribe to "hard pills to swallow"
natraum.substack.com to get it to your inbox—be sure to subscribe to "hard pills to swallow"
the pool | nat raum | Substack
Queer "artist" and "writer" based in Baltimore. Fan of ambient music, open-world RPGs, noise-cancelling headphones, reality tv, and bisexual lighting (preferably all at once). Click to read the pool, ...
natraum.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
for the evening crowd
i rarely tease my own substack posts, but i wrote a lengthy essay about publishing that i am pretty proud of, and i'm releasing it for free tomorrow at noon EST.
natraum.substack.com to get it to your inbox—be sure to subscribe to "hard pills to swallow"
natraum.substack.com to get it to your inbox—be sure to subscribe to "hard pills to swallow"
the pool | nat raum | Substack
Queer "artist" and "writer" based in Baltimore. Fan of ambient music, open-world RPGs, noise-cancelling headphones, reality tv, and bisexual lighting (preferably all at once). Click to read the pool, ...
natraum.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
i rarely tease my own substack posts, but i wrote a lengthy essay about publishing that i am pretty proud of, and i'm releasing it for free tomorrow at noon EST.
natraum.substack.com to get it to your inbox—be sure to subscribe to "hard pills to swallow"
natraum.substack.com to get it to your inbox—be sure to subscribe to "hard pills to swallow"
baltimore, i am ISO one (1) cute cake with relatively short notice (it's for @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social's sixth bday next week). recs?
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
baltimore, i am ISO one (1) cute cake with relatively short notice (it's for @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social's sixth bday next week). recs?
did not qualify for unemployment this week, if anyone wants to buy a workshop ticket
new workshops just dropped!
if you missed the first round of the randomizer, i'm running that again, and then introducing a new workshop on writing place!
natraum.com/workshops
if you missed the first round of the randomizer, i'm running that again, and then introducing a new workshop on writing place!
natraum.com/workshops
workshops — nat raum
natraum.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
did not qualify for unemployment this week, if anyone wants to buy a workshop ticket
new workshops just dropped!
if you missed the first round of the randomizer, i'm running that again, and then introducing a new workshop on writing place!
natraum.com/workshops
if you missed the first round of the randomizer, i'm running that again, and then introducing a new workshop on writing place!
natraum.com/workshops
workshops — nat raum
natraum.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
new workshops just dropped!
if you missed the first round of the randomizer, i'm running that again, and then introducing a new workshop on writing place!
natraum.com/workshops
if you missed the first round of the randomizer, i'm running that again, and then introducing a new workshop on writing place!
natraum.com/workshops
performed one of my favorite poems last night: youtube.com/shorts/k20q4...
“all night i hear the noise of fire licking” live at Topside
YouTube video by nat raum
youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
performed one of my favorite poems last night: youtube.com/shorts/k20q4...
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i'd love a few more signups for this, if anyone wants to write extremely low-stakes poems with me!
hello! my next workshop, THE RANDOMIZER, runs 11/6. it's a generative poetry workshop that focuses on using randomized prompts, forms, and constraints to construct a poem. you'll draft a total of 3!
natraum.com/workshops
natraum.com/workshops
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
i'd love a few more signups for this, if anyone wants to write extremely low-stakes poems with me!
i'd love a few more signups for this, if anyone wants to write extremely low-stakes poems with me!
hello! my next workshop, THE RANDOMIZER, runs 11/6. it's a generative poetry workshop that focuses on using randomized prompts, forms, and constraints to construct a poem. you'll draft a total of 3!
natraum.com/workshops
natraum.com/workshops
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
i'd love a few more signups for this, if anyone wants to write extremely low-stakes poems with me!
i wrote this poem at a really fraught, vulnerable time in my life that has only intensified in some ways since writing this. it still remains one of my favorite things i have ever written.
POEM 279: "all night i hear the noise of fire licking" by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social)
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
i wrote this poem at a really fraught, vulnerable time in my life that has only intensified in some ways since writing this. it still remains one of my favorite things i have ever written.
Reposted by mosh pit daria
POEM 279: "all night i hear the noise of fire licking" by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social)
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
November 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
POEM 279: "all night i hear the noise of fire licking" by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social)
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
"the pulse my body so spitefully insists
upon is surging and burning and twisting
through every vessel and then some
like sneaking out like letting go"
stonecirclereview.com/all-night/
#Poem #Poetry
hello! my next workshop, THE RANDOMIZER, runs 11/6. it's a generative poetry workshop that focuses on using randomized prompts, forms, and constraints to construct a poem. you'll draft a total of 3!
natraum.com/workshops
natraum.com/workshops
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
hello! my next workshop, THE RANDOMIZER, runs 11/6. it's a generative poetry workshop that focuses on using randomized prompts, forms, and constraints to construct a poem. you'll draft a total of 3!
natraum.com/workshops
natraum.com/workshops