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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 20h

i have been caught up in life and didn't realize that my first week and change of selections for @sundresspub.bsky.social's The Wardrobe have gone live! thanks to Merrick Sloane for the chance to make these picks—there's some really outstanding poetry coming your way soon.

sundressblog.com

The Sundress Blog

(a publishing collective supplement)

sundressblog.com

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 20h

loved getting a chance to read this collection!

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 1d

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live?

tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

2025 workshops

It's Lit: Literary Magazine Submissions. October 29 @ 7PM EST.

THE RANDOMIZER #1. November 6 @ 7pm EST.

No Choice But to Stan: Writing Pop Culture in Poetry. November 15 @ 12pm EST

Writing to Grieve: Poetry as Processing. November 22 @ 12pm EST

THE RANDOMIZER #2. TBD late November.

About your instructor

nat raum is a queer, disabled, and recently unemployed artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, and have served as an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and The University of Baltimore. They’re the author of 22 books of poetry, all of which were proudly published independently.

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 1d

thank you so much! i'm excited for them

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 1d

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live?

tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

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Verse of April @verseofapril.bsky.social · 5d

"The beauty of friendship (and the similarly-weighted tragedy of its dissolution) as a young adult is something I am intimately familiar with, and [Patterson's] poem captured it so beautifully," writes nat raum. Read (and listen) to their full entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nat-raum

Excerpt from nat raum's homage poem to Bleah Patterson

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 5d

LOVE IT! 🖤

mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 6d

me reading "okay" (originally pubbed in @the-engine-idling.bsky.social)

youtu.be/ryWxJoe0wAs?...

"okay" live at Ottobar

YouTube video by nat raum

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 6d

me reading "okay" (originally pubbed in @the-engine-idling.bsky.social)

youtu.be/ryWxJoe0wAs?...

"okay" live at Ottobar

YouTube video by nat raum

youtu.be

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Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 14d

SGP is thrilled to share our BoN nomnomnoms for 2026! This is our 1st year in the comp circuit, & though we have complex feelings about comps, we know how special these accolades are to our literary friends. We love to love and champion these flockers & ALL of our contributors!

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 19d

hi squad, i am hoping to supplement my unexpectedly reduced income with some gig work, including the first of a few workshops!

tix: forms.gle/AHW4sQLEJh5v...

stretchy geralt monotone background. text overlay: no choice but to stan. a generative pop-culture focused virtual poetry workshop. hosted by nat raum. october 1 at 7pm est. $10-30 sliding scale. proceeds help nat with living expenses while out of work. for tickets: natraum.com/links.

stretchy geralt monotone background. text overlay: about your instructor. nat raum (they/them) exists where Iris von Everec’s soul meets Triss Merigold’s body. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, and have served as an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and The University of Baltimore. They’re the author of 22 books of poetry, all proudly published independently.

stretchy geralt monotone background. text overlay: i can't make it! can i get the prompts? yes!!!! fill out the form and select "i'm just here for the prompts." suggested donation: $2-5.

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 20d

also: FAST RESPONSE EVENT INCOMING!!!!

send a submission on Friday (9/19) from 12AM to 11:59PM EST and get a response on Saturday (9/20)!

fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 20d

hi! friendly reminder that we are open for 'effervescent' subs through the end of the month!

fifthwheelpress.com/anthsubs

anthology submissions — fifth wheel press

fifthwheelpress.com

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · Sep 7

got bored; typeset all my witcher poems and essays

gr8earlofhell.itch.io/the-path

good luck on the path by nat raum

42-page poetry and essay collection

gr8earlofhell.itch.io

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Sep 5

with gasoline
nat raum

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/withgasoline
eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/withgasoline

with gasoline
nat raum

cover:
a pink Molotov cocktail on a blue background with the title overlayed in a white Gothic font

text:
“If apathy and despair are getting the better of you in these times, with gasoline is the fuel you need to rebuild your phoenix”

- Sarah Klein,
author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus

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chirping bird @chrpngbrd.bsky.social · Sep 5

Every year Towson residents and business owners get concerned realizing they are in a college town where college town things happen.

www.wbaltv.com/article/tows...

Towson residents complain of large, rowdy crowds on 'Thirsty Thursday'

Several Towson bars are drawing huge crowds by offering cheap drinks on what has been deemed, "Thirsty Thursdays."

www.wbaltv.com

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HAD @havehashad.com · Sep 3

you gotta read—& gotta SEE—AMAZING new nat raum today!

I.i am
A. writing
1. an ars poetica
i. in which i bury you,
ii. in which i close the widest point of the wound myself,
2. a farewell.

https://www.havehashad.com/t727h

poem in which you become the “you” by nat raum

i am writing an ars poetica in which i bury you, in which i close the widest point of the wound myself, a farewell. still crying in my car sometimes. for your specter.

www.havehashad.com

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 24

Day 24: “fire” by @lowermelody.bsky.social and @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social in @s2fjournal.bsky.social (pg. 7). I love how nat and D.W.’s styles merge in this raging, red-hot poem.
www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

www.s2fjournal.com

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · Aug 24

THE EFFERVESCENT THREAD ✨🧵

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 19

blunt toned and intent on exposing the moment, nat raum is back and their pen's filled with gasoline

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
available in print & eBook
links in reply

with gasoline by nat raum

cover:
a Molotov cocktail in pink outlined in black on a background of blue. the title and author's name appear in white and black Gothic text.

the cover is overlayed with two quotes pierced with white and black knives

[with gasoline's] propulsive engine is fueled by righteous anger, moral clarity, and political courage.
- Evelyn Berry

this collection bares is teeth at the world and refuses to take "no" for an answer
- Sarah Klein

poem from my deathbed

i wish i had kicked. i wish i had screamed.
i wish i had yelled the words fuck off
far more, for so many more people deserved
them. i wish i had carved they into my right
breast, them into my left, and worn
my deepest v-neck. i wish i had found
a vessel for all this wrath before i came to
lie here, listing it all off like this is confession
and anyone who will listen is an eager-
eared soothsayer on the other side of a partition.
i wish being trans didn’t come with a side
of people so uncomfortable with themselves,
they have to project it onto others. i wish
i didn’t have to shut up about it to maintain
any modicum of respect the average cis person
has for me. i wish i didn’t have to say i use any
pronouns to dull the sting of a misplaced she.
i wish anyone in office gave a damn,
but they don’t. i wish the words
enshrined protections extended to me,
to us. i wish the fact weren’t,
but it is.

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Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social · Aug 20

"air" by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social) & D.W. Baker

genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...

air – nat raum & D.W. Baker

airDownload nat raum is a disabled artist, writer, and genderless disaster based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They’re the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press. Their w…

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to have a collaborative poem, "air," co-authored with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, in @genrepunkmag.bsky.social today

genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...

air – nat raum & D.W. Baker

airDownload nat raum is a disabled artist, writer, and genderless disaster based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They’re the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press. Their w…

genrepunkmag.wordpress.com

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Artists from Maryland @artfrommaryland.bsky.social · Aug 20

Artists from Maryland's 2025 Best of the Net noms!

POETRY: Otis Sprow, Patricia Adelizzi, Kay Mi, @matoro.bsky.social, @whoastanderson.bsky.social, Breasia "Bree" Boyd

CNF: Hayley Igarashi Thomas, Kelci Tillman

ART: @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @eldritchjellyfish.bsky.social, Judith Skillman

Artists from Maryland
2025 Best of the Net Nominations

“When a long supply of city blocks
lies in front of you,
notice how each door you pass
tells a different story.”
Otis Sprow, “For Beginnings”

“shhh! listen for what you can hear
as the farmer silences his machine”
Patricia Adelizzi, “ditchin’ days”

“& this time, i am so lonely. i have all the time in the
world to anticipate what’s outside: the frost rushing
beneath our skins, & the moon, so the moon.”
Kay Mi, “it’s april again”

Artists from Maryland
2025 Best of the Net Nominations

“This is not a winless team,
but we’re dogshit.“
Matthew Herskovitz, “Father’s Day at Camden Yards (June 2021)”

“fifty tiny crabs a hundred
three thousand
warmed into the sun"
stephanie anderson, “blue crabs get smote again”

“because the raunchy lyrics with heavy beats make
it all too indecent.”
Breasia “Bree” Boyd, “You Can’t Play Too $hort at the Family Cookout”

Artists from Maryland
2025 Best of the Net Nominations

“The soundtrack of my anxiety is the beating of an imperfect heart. I do not know how valves or septums work, but I can close my eyes and feel the rhythm of blood, flowing back and forth, in and out, where it's wanted and where it's not.”
Hayley Igarashi Thomas, “Thanks for Your Patience”

“Sundays used to be the pinnacle of the week, of our existence really, but things have changed and slowly, with time and age, we’ve shifted and are shifting still. The Baltimore Farmers Market and Bazaar happens every Sunday, a place where we can be fed.“
Kelci Tillman, “ditchin’ days”

Artists from Maryland
2025 Best of the Net Nominations

“Meadow, after Dion Salvador Lloyd” is oil on board, 11” x 14”. I was struck by the beauty of this pastoral scene and used brushes to render shades of green and cream, punctuated by bales of hay or simply otherwise mysterious marks. The grasses were done with a palette knife. I am fascinated by imaginary and real journeys, and like to think of the top upper left green as a pathway off the rectangle.
Judith Skillman, "Meadow, after Dion Salvador Lloyd"

From black paper and graphite, augmented with digital highlights and unnatural colours. Creatures stare curiously, maybe hungrily at you from the darkness. Hidden in the shadows of a forest that doesn't yet exist; drifting beneath the illusion.
Kyrico, "Unfinished Tree"

A photograph of the afternoon light casting shadows through the ceiling windows at the American Visionary Arts Museum.
nat raum, "untitled"

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 14

there's a comfort in anger, there's a comfort in knowing you're not angry alone

with gasoline
by nat raum
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

is due out next week

kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Jul 23

nat raum pushes back against the sanitized polite, pliable, & otherwise "perfect" trans ideal deemed acceptable by society—if, and when, they are accepted at all—with poems that highlight the righteous, the cruel, and the ugly of existing in a cis het patriarchal world
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

cover:
A pink and black molotov cocktail on a background of blue. the title and authors name appear in a sharp peaked gothic font in white and black respectively.

text:
and at what point
do i hold the power to grab the system
by its clavicle and rupture back?
poem after and undisclosed meme about my pronouns

august 19th
pre-orders are
OPEN

kithbooks.com

the following poem appears in a white rectangle on a pink background. ia black handled chef's knife is stabbed through the bottom edge, handle up and point down.

text:
poem for the cishet woman who says including transmasc people in “women’s” issues isn’t relatable to her personally

this is a focus group. focus on identifying five things
i can see, four i can touch. focus on the cursor as it slides
over the camera button, switches it off. focus on the way
she says i hope you don’t take this as offensive, but after i say
the menopause website we’re all looking at doesn’t feel
trans-friendly. recalibrate; losing focus. don’t focus on
the way i feel, the way she doesn’t realize she swatted
me down like an attack helicopter would fall if struck
by such a blow. don’t focus on all twenty people who said
nothing and kept talking about the hot pink web design.
focus on the talking-to my boss says is coming for her.
focus on the email from my other queer coworker
sending love from her gay little corner of the world.
focus on quitting this job in a few months, anyway.
this is a focus group—focus on collecting my gift card
compensation. focus on a future without cis nonsense.

the following poem appears in a white rectangle on a blue background. breaking up through the bottom edge of the image is the top half of a pink and black molotov cocktail

poem from my deathbed

i wish i had kicked. i wish i had screamed.
i wish i had yelled the words fuck off
far more, for so many more people deserved
them. i wish i had carved they into my right
breast, them into my left, and worn
my deepest v-neck. i wish i had found
a vessel for all this wrath before i came to
lie here, listing it all off like this is confession
and anyone who will listen is an eager-
eared soothsayer on the other side of a partition.
i wish being trans didn’t come with a side
of people so uncomfortable with themselves,
they have to project it onto others. i wish
i didn’t have to shut up about it to maintain
any modicum of respect the average cis person
has for me. i wish i didn’t have to say i use any
pronouns to dull the sting of a misplaced she.
i wish anyone in office gave a damn,
but they don’t. i wish the words
enshrined protections extended to me,
to us. i wish the fact weren’t,
but it is.

a black handled, white bladed chef's knife, lies blade up on a pink background above the following text.

text:
A vibrant trans celebration, with gasoline is a Molotov thrown at heteropatriachy that ignites a vicious fire. Defiantly calling to attention ordinary and extraordinary transphobia, this collection bares its teeth at the world and refuses to take “no” for an answer. The author's succinct and biting language gives their anger a beautiful clarity that resonates beside their unending resolve for embodying trans joy. 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

with gasoline offers an explosive bouquet of occasional poems for uncommon times, whether after cruel executive orders, during frustrating focus group conversations, or perilous moments that demand one's survival instincts. Their poems’ propulsive engine is fueled by righteous anger, moral clarity, and political courage. raum takes aim at transphobes, billionaires, bootlickers, boomers, and milquetoast liberals alike—in other words becoming “your worst fucking nightmare”—to help us envision instead a future of trans liberation.
Evelyn Berry,
author of Grief Slut and T4T

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · Aug 15

We're so excited to announce issue 9, our TWO YEAR (!!!!) anniversary issue!

Featuring @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social, and more.

$Issue 9 Wenyi Xue god bless America endwell neuroscience must reckon with the antipsychiatry movement Chase Anderson C:\Users\gnight\Desktop\who am i\README.txt Ziqr Gödel and Me On A Dark and Stormy Night Benjamin Rodriguez Poem 91 nat raum if bpd could talk Troy Droussiotis GLAMOUR GIRL GLAMIFESTO (or A Manifesto in Non-Being) Glamour Girl Magenta GLAMOUR GIRL 2K Sylvie Althoff Last of the Cigarette Gremlins jp thorn Two Pieces mysticism for beginners fortune cookie aphorisms Zoe Korte O Aslan Valerie Babenkova Comfort in the Endless Forever of Underneath and Not kendall q lamb power fantasy, or sheepgulls$

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · Aug 15

We're also excited to welcome back repeat offender @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, editor of mag-friend @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, with a poem about emotional intensity & bpd:

manyworlds.place/issue-9/nat-...

if bpd could talk by nat raum - manywor(l)ds :: place

hello there, victim of the boundless urge to pull some cursed, dumb-bitch shit—

manyworlds.place

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · Aug 9

Jessica Nirvana Ram’s beautiful poetry collection is available for preorder. It was an honour to do the cover art for ‘in the aftermath’ and I’m so happy it found a new home with fifth wheel press! 💛

fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · Aug 9

the long-awaited 'in the aftermath' by @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social is now available for preorder, dropping in september!

fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/in-...

in the aftermath by Jessica Nirvana Ram

Written in the aftermath of a close friend's suicide, this poetry collection delves into the specific grief that comes with suicide. Jessica Nirvana Ram is an Indo-Guyanese poet. She is the author of ...

fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com

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