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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Another new book? What is this insanity? Check it out: a.co/d/014vUsGo

A photo of a chapbook titled "Grief is a Place With a Hole Inside. The cover art features a man-shaped figure with a monster on a leash in stark black and white

Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Well, I didn't win the chapbook contest, but placing in the top 8 makes me optimistic. If there's any editors out there looking for a weird little poetry chapbook that explores falling in and then out of love with a best friend through the lens of David Lynch with trans/queer themes... well hmu!

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

My 'Strange World' chapbook has placed as one of 8 finalists in Red Flag's annual chapbook contest! I have high hopes for this weird little David Lynch inspired book.

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

On Monday I signed on with Last Picked Books out of Pittsburgh for my next poetry chapbook, due out early 2026. It's queer and holy and wholly mine. Watch this space!

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

You ever think about how we have a societal stereotype that mental illness makes people more likely to be creatives when really creatives are likely to be mentally ill because to be an artist is to have empathy in a society that actively punishes the empathetic?

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I'll definitely be submitting - will you?

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

That awkward moment when you get a rejection from a press you forgot you submitted to in the midst of discussing the publication of that manuscript with two different presses. Oops.

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Six months later I've finished my David Lynch inspired poetry chapbook about the dissolution of a friendship and trying to understand the nature of the "self". Now I need to find a publisher...

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

New poem up! I'm working on a David Lynch inspired poetry chapbook and this is the first of those poems to find a home. hobocampreview.blogspot.com?m=1

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Hobo Camp Review

poetry & prose from the road

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

was nearly in tears getting to be in the front row to see @laurajanegrace.bsky.social in Pittsburgh tonight. Been a fan since 2007ish, we came out as trans within a year of each other. Finally getting to go to a concert was moving in ways I can't quite articulate.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

In a world where you can be anything, be unkind to transphobes.

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Haven't posted here in a while. The end of April/beginning of May has been wild - mostly in the best ways. Readings, afterparties, drafting chapbooks, etc. Now I have a lot of material to find homes for. Happy writing!

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I've been writing like a fiend lately. A haibun here, a prose poem there, some hybrid stuff. Feels good.

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

working on a little zine project to walk people through one approach to writing a poem. It functions basically as a step-by-step of how I would teach a poetry course, in direct refutation of the way I was taught.

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Want to feel old? Children's author JK Rowling is now a shambling monster made of mold

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Kody @kodyisover.com · 31/03/2025

if you're a U.S. voter and you claim to want more for trans folks than just visibility, you can dedicate 2 to 8 minutes to us a week.

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Trans Day of "I'm so fucking tired"

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Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy #TransDayofVisibility. Now put the T back on the Stonewall monument.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Just going to say, visibility without support kinda blows. See us, hear us, but more importantly support us in actual, concrete ways. #TDOV

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I've got one published book, two finished chapbooks out for consideration, and a third that is 3/4 written and I *still* feel like an imposter most days.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“I’m doing good things,” I tell myself as I delete the military service of a dead woman. “I’m still a good person.”

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Starting to look for homes for some of my David Lynch poems as I continue to write more. This project has turned into a chapbook that uses imagery and quotations from David Lynch's work to explore the painful dissolution of a close friendship that first exposed me to David Lynch. Also gender stuff.

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Went to a party, befriended this cat

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Update on my David Lynch series. 20 pages in, still have season 3 of Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me, and Inland Empire left on my watch list. Really seeing things come together.

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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 13/03/2025

Author Peter David has been dealing with serious health issues for a several years. Now he has been cut off by Medicaid at the time when he most urgently needs their help. If you can, please donate to help him & his family cope w/medical costs, and/or share the link: www.gofundme.com/f/help-peter...

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Donate to Help Peter David, organized by Graham Murphy

Hi, friends. I'm restarting a fundraiser for Peter David and his family. Peter's health issues continue… Graham Murphy needs your support for Help Peter David

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Excited to have a poem forthcoming in @newwordspress.bsky.social - definitely a journal worth following! And the citizen trans project they're doing is SO important.

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Really, really hype about this one! @hobocampreview.bsky.social has inspired me to attempt an entire David Lynch chapbook, and the very first poem I wrote for it will be in their David Lynch memorial issue right around my birthday in July!!

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Hobo Camp Review @hobocampreview.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The pathetic Trump/Musk/Vance administration is an abomination and embarrassment in every conceivable way. If you even dream of admiring them, don't read our mag or send us your work. "So much for the tolerant left" you say? That was never us, bub. We're vengeful poets, and we don't tolerate shit.

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Donny Donowitz @introverter.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Halfway to the weekend. LFG!

May the rotting flesh of kings feed the earth.

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Working title. Current project: poems on a friendship lost through the lens of David Lynch films. Not sure if I love or hate it, but it has been a good excuse to re-watch Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and Blue Velvet.

screenshot of a Word document that says "Strange World, A David Lynch inspired poetry series"

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The first poem I ever had published back in 2016. On Growing Up Queer in Northern Appalachia. Seems as relevant now as ever.

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Cordyceph @cordyceph.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Imagine being dumped in a random country with no idea of what to do next. Your kids ask you what to do. God this is fucked. Keep fighting this.

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Reminder that I have a book out! A Tangled Lineage is an exploration of Trans/Queer identity at the intersection of rural Appalachia and the Rust Belt. The book seeks to reclaim religious language and uplift the LGBTQ experience. a.co/d/epPySji

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Me, with two poetry chapbooks that need a publisher sitting on my hard drive: "hmm... better write a secret third chapbook entirely focused on David Lynch"

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The National PARK Service? Holy shit.

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Hanging out with poets, feeling saintly

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Poem of mine from issue #1 of @redbranchreview.bsky.social about trying, and failing, to communicate with a father in a world that fails to teach men empathy.

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Hobo Camp Review @hobocampreview.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Guidelines at our website! hobocampreview.blogspot.com/p/submission...

Hobo Camp Review seeks work inspired by David Lynch for their summer issue, with submissions open through February.

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Laura Jane Grace @laurajanegrace.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Run on the treadmill at an 8.0 clip then punch the stat screen as hard as you can right in the numbers a couple times for good measure, scream like a banshee right there in the middle of planet fitness at 8:30AM if you’re so compelled to, do whatever it takes to get you through the day right now

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Jay Orlando @jayorlando.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Please support Red Branch, they're doing some great work in Appalachia and have published my work before and I just love them so much

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Ærin Salvo @aerin-salvo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This. A million times this. Yes! Trans people as a modality of human existence always have and always will exist. My concern is that within 4 years my friends and I may not.

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