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Joshua Zeitler

@thejayestofzees.bsky.social

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Queer, nonbinary writer in rural MI. BLISS ROAD (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025) Poetry editor for @longandshortlit.bsky.social—SUBS OPEN Poems fc in Ploughshares, Foglifter, wildness, The Shore, & more https://linktr.ee/joshuazeitler

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · Jul 31

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.

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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...

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 3d

Submissions are OPEN now!!! Submit to issue two of @longandshortlit.bsky.social: The Sweater in the Attic!!!

Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 3d

A few pics from this weekend—

Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 4d

Idk how much spin is historically normal in White House briefings, like I’m sure this isn’t totally new, but the extent to which Karoline Leavitt is just straight up propagandizing with false talking points is deeply terrifying

Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 5d

My latest poem “Things the Blind Man Never Saw Coming” is live today on Hawai’i Pacific Review! Big love to Tyler McMahon and the editors for believing in this one—

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Things the Blind Man Never Saw Coming

by Joshua Zeitler Puberty and cars and trucks obviously and trains from time to time he heard coming but never saw loving the rush of air how he could

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 8d

I had one job this morning—to grab a shirt that fits from the pile of shirts that fit. Instead I grabbed a shirt that does not fit from the pile of shirts that do not fit.

Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 10d

What are the odds I’ll ever direct a show this special again? Probably about an Ann Jillian gazillion to one. Now. Here. This.

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Rogue Agent Journal @rogueagent.bsky.social · 10d

A prism, a dreamscape, and a river… RA 127 is here! Featuring poetry by Barbara Daniels, Valarie Hastings, Elizabeth Sochko Hussain, @mkpoet.bsky.social Susan Milchman, Emily Patterson, Sabyasachi Roy, Miriam Sagan, Julie Wong, and @thejayestofzees.bsky.social // rogueagentjournal.com/issue127

Issue 127 — RogueAgent

Welcome to Rogue Agent, a journal for poetry and art that inhabits the body.

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 10d

“anyway if all my life were a year // I’d’ve wasted the whole year, minus some picosecond / here or there where I was getting kissed, truly kissed, / kissed out of my shoes then kissed out of my pants”

Read my thirsty little Scafidi-esque poem in Rogue Agent 127! www.rogueagentjournal.com/jzeitler

Joshua Zeitler — RogueAgent

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 11d

Submissions are OPEN for our second issue—“The Sweater in the Attic!”

Stay tuned for the pieces selected for “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” starting this Thursday!

The Long & The Short of It @longandshortlit.bsky.social · 26d

Issue II of The Long and the Short of It, themed “The Sweater in the Attic,” is OPEN for submissions Sept. 15-Oct. 31, 2025.
What’s in your attic? Who’s in your sweater? What keeps you warm, or haunts your dreams?
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December's Theme: Sweater in the Attic

We'll provide the attic, you bring the sweater.

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 14d

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 14d

Opening night is under the belt! Directing Now. Here. This. has been easily in the top 5 experiences of my life. I’m so proud of all the work on every level, & how beautifully, hilariously, poignantly it’s all come together.

Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 20d

Up on The Shore now, “Transition Diary I,” a poem about naming, about the difficulty of relating to the world when my relation to myself was off-kilter. Check out issue 27 for more excellent poems from Jane Zwart, Jacob J Billingsley, Natalie Eleanor Patterson, & many more!

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 20d

Transgender for everyone.

Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 21d

Just in today—my contributor’s copy of the new @giganticsequins.bsky.social! Order issue 16 today to read “My gender is an open border” and so much more exciting, beautifully crafted work!

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 21d

Live today in wildness—“Transition Diary III”—check out all the wondrous work in issue 39!!

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Transition Diary III, by Joshua Zeitler | wildnesswildness

Wildness is an online literary and arts journal.

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 23d

Two new poems today, live on Boomer Lit Mag!

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Joshua Zeitler | BoomerLitMag

Declaration :: : An Anti-ErasureFor the good of society… transgenderism must be eradicatedfrom public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.—Michael KnowlesWhen it becomes nece...

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 23d

Love love love this headshot that Lynzee Harrison took for the show I’m directing. 11/10

Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 25d

I’m directing a show, & I so deeply, deeply love this experience. My actors are phenomenal, just the best people. My crew is pulling it all together. It’s so thrilling to watch & I’m constantly stressed about everything but then I just have these moments of “ah, yes, this is why we do it.”

Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 25d

Charles Simic once said he wrote because he wanted every woman in the world to fall in love with him, & yeah, I feel ya Chuck, but why stop at women??

Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 26d

“Window Shopping for Heartbreak at the Kamala Harris Rally” is live today in Action, Spectacle!

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Joshua Zeitler - poetry — Action, Spectacle

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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 27d

"To speak of Kirk as a champion of reasoned discussion is also to ignore his frequent calls for the state suppression of his political opponents."
🎁 Op-Ed from NYTimes

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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · 27d

“Postcard from the Sinking City,” my new poem about loneliness & the most beautiful city on earth, is live now on DMQ Review! Check out the stellar prose poems in this issue!

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Zeitler-F25 — DMQ Review

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · Sep 11

Absolutely thrilled to be a part of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social’s next issue: The Urge! Such a beautiful publication made with such thought & care. Stay tuned!

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Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social · Sep 8

#1 LITIGIOUS DEMON GITS ✌️

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Reposted by Joshua Zeitler

Cottonmouth Journal @cottonmouthjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

Issue 4 is live!!! www.cottonmouthjournal.com

HOME | COTTONMOUTH

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