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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · Jul 16

Little reminder that if you need a book cover designed (or an interior or a whole book inside-and-out) I'd love to work with you! Check out my website, www.davidwojo.com, to check out my portfolio (and why not read a few of my poems while you're there?).

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 6h

Reading my teaching philosophy for the first time in 2 years because I'm applying to a job and I'm actually pleasantly surprised by it. Why hasn't anyone hired me?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9h

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 10h

Thinking about a time during the MFA when we threw a party, and, having just gotten kittens, a little baggie of catnip from one of their toys was left on a bookshelf and someone stole that baggie. What I wouldn't give to have been there when that person tried smoking it...

David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 1d

I just want John Waters to point his finger at me and say, "Zzzzap."

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 1d

I'm legit shocked right now. I never attended the keynotes, but that's gonna change.

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT.

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 1d

Me again- most of the commas are grammatically incorrect.

David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 1d

Check-in from a typesetter for a vanity press: thought this interior was done, but at the zero hour an author sent a corrections form because they want to add...::checks notes::...712 commas.

David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 1d

Check-in from a typesetter for a vanity press: thought this interior was done, but at the zero hour an author sent a corrections form because they want to add...::checks notes::...712 commas.

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 2d

“You’re right. No human being would stack books like this.”

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 2d

Being a freelancer is fun because you give a client 3 ways to pay you, but then they suggest a 4th way. Do you Venmo? Do you Cash? Do you Bill? Do you Spoinkle? Splash? MoneyMoney? $UM? SmartCash? PayNow?

David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 2d

Bygone era of no author websites so when you read something in a litmag you liked you at least had a few places to find more work by that person?

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 2d

Greying Ghost apparently has "limited quantities" of my amazing chapbook available so maybe you should pick up a copy ($7.50?!) just in case no one ever publishes the full-length version?

Koniec (End) by David Wojciechowski

"Wojciechowki's ekphrastic poems, written while watching old Polish cartoons from the 50s & 60s, elicit dream-like scenes of such...

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 3d

The How It’s Made episode titles are poem prompts.

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 2d

...and is forcing AI on the world killing any industries? Is it killing any environments?

David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 3d

I love a good list in a poem.

David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 3d

The How It’s Made episode titles are poem prompts.

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 3d

Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 5d

We made that Tom Cruise coconut cake with the cream cheese butter cream frosting and toffee bits on the bottom but we melted white chocolate into the batter.

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 4d

Oof - MS rejection for KIELBASA (my MS of ekphrastic prose poems written after 1960s-80s Polish animated shorts). Onward!

two horseshoe shaped sausages are cooking on a grill outside

ALT: two horseshoe shaped sausages are cooking on a grill outside

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 4d

We made this one and I can’t imagine we’ll make any other coconut cake: cakebycourtney.com/white-chocol...

Copycat Tom Cruise White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake

My new White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake is an incredibly moist coconut white chocolate cake with the most delicious coconut frosting.

cakebycourtney.com

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 4d

And it’s incredible. So light and moist.

David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 5d

We made that Tom Cruise coconut cake with the cream cheese butter cream frosting and toffee bits on the bottom but we melted white chocolate into the batter.

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 6d

I bought my blu-ray player in 2010 and remember being so excited about it (immediately watched 2001: A Space Odyssey). It died last night, and it's wild that 15 years later it's difficult to find a new blu-ray player in stores cause of how much tech has changed...

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 9d

Our anniversary strawberry crunch cake! We initially bonded over baking, so we decided to spend the majority of Sunday in the kitchen baking and it’s one of our best cakes yet. 🎂🎂🎂

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 7d

Seriously. 81/19 was $5.79./lb and 4 days later it was $7.99. Are there really people out there who think things are better now than a year ago?

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