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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · 1h

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

tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · 1h

excerpts from my forthcoming microchap, CRASH

inspired by the #mouthwashinggame

preorder here: www.vinegarpress.org/store/p/cras...

title card for the poetry microchapbook CRASH by tommy wyatt blake

"what happens when day doesn't reset and it retracts into the sun: a white spot at the center of an image, a dead pixel on the duskscreen?" - "can i tell you a secret about supernovas?"

"i brace the stars worming through my pupils, dilated by dark matter" - "no sound ever recorded in space"

"how many days have I experienced time as temporal contusion?" -- "psychological evaluation"

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mk zariel {it/its} @mkzariel.bsky.social · 10h

and i'll also be reading at this #event for #stopcopcity <3 this is a great way to hear pieces of #BOYAPPARITION—and support one of the #ATL61 at the same time! plus there's #trans #poetry by the amazing @hakaiika-crow.bsky.social and @tommywyattblake.bsky.social and @opensorceryy.co

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 13h

"in turns demanding, interrogatory, and at times self-soothing, these poems dis/construct entire worlds, manipulate media into fractions of self"
- BEE LB

@tommywyattblake.bsky.social
Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/disasterfire
eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/disasterfire

$DISASTERFIRE/DISASTER STAR tommy blake cover: a sepia toned view of smoke through bars. the title "DISASTER STAR" appears fractured in both cream and dark grey, once right side up and once down. text: in turns demanding, interrogatory, and at times self-soothing, these poems dis/construct entire worlds, manipulate media into fractions of self - BEE LB$

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · 1h

these are so cute

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · 9d

transphobia, queerness, and popular culture.

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · 9d

looking for reviewers for my book FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT! coming soon with @troublemakerfire.bsky.social

whether it’s changing the channel/programming, playing video games, or yearning for a good future, this book explores themes of time and dissociation, domestic violence,

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · 22d

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

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · 22d

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

“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

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · Sep 7

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

“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

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · Sep 3

DM me to rsvsp!

mk zariel {it/its} @mkzariel.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join me for a #virtual #poetry reading with @tommywyattblake.bsky.social! I'll be reading from my new #atemporal #transmasc poetry chapbook #BOYAPPARITION, out in October from Vinegar Press :3 dm for link

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · Sep 2

icymi! my next book MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION is open for preorders!! :)

Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · Sep 1

Will be getting tommy wyatt blake’s @tommywyattblake.bsky.social MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION up for pre-order in the next couple of days! Eeee! tommy: “it’s about the desire to escape the confines of the body while on the psych ward”

ASSUME, ASSUME (ASS-ÚM-AY) / on how to take meds in the psych ward
MORTAL LIGHT HIGHSKY
DIALECT DICED & SHARP
SLANGED TO A JOKE: "GOODNIGHT!"
STARE IN MORNING
EXERTION AND LAUGH
LIKE YOU MEAN IT.
THE MOON GIFTED WITH
ALL-TIME BRIGHTNESS SEES
WITH ITS MANY EYES, CRATERBENT.
ITS DREAMS MASTICATE
IN YOUR MOUTH. YOU MUST
SWALLOW.

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · Sep 1

tommy wyatt blake’s MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION is now available for pre-order!

www.ethelzine.com/shop/mutuall...

the future is now / the future is trans
after H.G. Wells
first. solve the equation:
TIME = ?
TIME = Length, Breadth, Thickness, Duration: unreal
distinction
you need to push past your threshold for this and think less diluted. check your glittering metalwatch and stop right there! you're so close to futurity of certain fatigue, dizzygrounded, instincts reeled in. under this gibbous tangle of moon,
you tricked breathwork all in the palpation of night. it's okay to come out now. it's okay to tether your mind with lucid furnishings.

PROPHECY!! with a little panic
TV PG
you claim to be lusterborn by prophecy, but who are you, really-flustered by days warm of rust and blood. it's okay to be humanruined and musty; it means you are alive.
son of diesurrogacy as a god, but
created with flaw when you choose to be someone who cries with the maw of mouth, if you
need, and don't close too hard, your teeth may shatter. you need to do just one thing with your life, if anything: live. you will shine of brisk air and copper hair glimmering with sun. don't drink sink water, and the rest will be with you.

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · Sep 1

excited for this book to be out there in the world soon!!

this poetry chapbook is about the desire and attempts to escape the confines of body while in the psych ward.

you can pre-order the book here: www.ethelzine.com/shop/mutuall...

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · Aug 31

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!

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm excited to be supporting the release of @tommywyattblake.bsky.social 's MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION at this reading in a few weeks! I'll be reading poems on mental health, institutionalization, and intra-self experience

discord voice reading
D.W. Baker & tommy wyatt blake
September 12th 8pm (est)
DM for the link

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · Aug 17

hi! would anyone like to review or interview me about my upcoming poetry chapbook "Mutually Assured Destruction"
@the-ethelzine.bsky.social

i wrote it while manic at the psych ward in a 2-day span. it's about finding a way out of the body, to only be confined by it

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Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social · Aug 13

"demure? more like demonic [+ TikTok video notes]" by tommy wyatt blake (@tommywyattblake.bsky.social)

genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/d...

demure? more like demonic [+ TikTok video notes] – tommy wyatt blake

demure more like demonicDownload tommy wyatt blake (he/they) is the jester of popular culture and poet laureate of timefuckery. he’s the author of DITCHLAPSE / [REALLY AFRAID]; NOW THAT&#821…

genrepunkmag.wordpress.com

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · Aug 12

hey! what's one thing you want to know about my books? i realize having 20+ may seem daunting!!

tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

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tommy wyatt blake (he/they) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · Jul 15

so stoked for my upcoming poetry collection, FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT!

Troublemaker Firestarter 🔥 @troublemakerfire.bsky.social · Jul 14

We're a press now 💋 buy our books in 2026

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Jul 1

"look at me shapeshift we arnt the same i’m a chamelon for the body think synethesia in the way red is cherry and cherry is dying on a raindisastered monday wen we need som kind of change"
- tommy blake, many mirrored moons

@tommywyattblake.bsky.social
kithbooks.com/shop/p/disasterfire

kith in print

The poems in DISASTERFIRE find tommy blake in conversation with the myriad parts that make up his self. These alters trip over, build onto, correct, and enlighten what tommy has, can, and will know. T...

kithbooks.com

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Jul 1

When the mind breaks itself open, there’s reason. In the aftermath there’s fear and there’s wonder, both inside and out. blake's alters trip over, build onto, correct, and enlighten what tommy has, can, and will know.
@tommywyattblake.bsky.social

$DISASTER FIRE / DISASTER STAR tommy blake cover: a grey scale image of the view of smoke beyond bars. the title is split and rendered half right side up in black and half upside down in white text: mirroring plurality in both voice and form, disasterfire/disasterstar confronts itself continually, allowing the reader in as both voyeur and conspirator, leaving you feeling a bit humananimal for once. in turns demanding, interrogatory, and at times self-soothing, these poems dis/construct entire worlds, manipulate media into fractions of self, utilize lyrics, characters, memories, and internal dialogues as spaces within which to distort and reform the poet’s own reflection into something you can see yourself. - BEE LB$

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