Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Trying and failing and trying and succeeding just a little bit and failing and trying and trying 010
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Incidentally, this platform feels so dead compared to others. What gives? Just a lot less active users I guess? 000
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I need to get back to reading and writing and submitting (it’s that time), but I’ve been so busy with school and getting sick. 🤧 😪 010
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Submissions are open for our fall reading period until we reach our submission cap (in about ~1.2 hours). 010
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 24/08/2026My husband sometimes has what I like to call his “revelations,” which are just really obvious observations about people that anyone barely paying attention would notice. 100
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 12/08/2026As a depressed person, this resonated. “Think of yourself as their guardian.” 020
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I think the Sealey Challenge is great, but I can never participate because I can’t and won’t read poetry that quickly. 010
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 02/08/2026“We loved reading your work. It was a transcendent experience and literally perfect in every way possible. Unfortunately, we are not worthy of it and so we’re going to have to pass. Best of luck placing it elsewhere.” 020
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I posted a new blog yesterday: summer musings, our first avocados, cat walks, writing updates, trying to go more analog. You can read it here: josephdante.com/2026/07/were...josephdante.comWe’re All Punks NowIt’s July again, almost August, and I’m sweating and sneezing and sleeping. We got our very first batch of avocados from one of the trees in the backyard. They’re small and not re… 021
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 29/07/2026RIP, Benjamin Alire Saenz. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe remains one of my favorite queer coming of age books. 170
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 19/07/2026“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” —Flannery O’Connor 010
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Social media really has made so many people so literal-minded and reactionary. It’s exhausting. 120
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I’ve not been feeling poetry lately, although I have been writing it. Strange. Back to prose. 010
Reposted by Joseph DanteJessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This is one of my favorite poems and I’m posting it for Marjane Satrapi www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46464/...poetryfoundation.org“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied”Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the… 1203
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 01/06/2026My poem, “On the Playing Field,” was published in the newest “In Between” issue of FOLIO. It’s a poem about childhood and the battlefield that is traditional gender roles. If you’ve ever felt like a misfit, maybe it will resonate. You can read it here: www.folioliteraryjournal.com/on-the-playi...folioliteraryjournal.comOn the Playing Field — FOLIO Literary Journal 140
Reposted by Joseph DanteRust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026New #poetry from Anthony Frame: "On Silence".rustandmoth.comOn Silence | Rust & Moth“In music, silence is more important than sound.” —Miles Davis Let me tell you something true: when I was thirteen, a man put his hand over my mouth and I lost my voice for a decade. Is it grief... 0146
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Spent some time with words by @stephendelaney.bsky.social. His new chapbook includes a collab between us! A curious collection of defamiliarizing, semi-fabulist flashes and prose poems. You can get a copy here: bottlecap.press/products/our... 172
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Getting bored with rejections. I’d like to be surprised for once. 000
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I’m so allergic to whimsy in poetry. It reads to me as insincere so often, like a defense mechanism. What are you really hiding, poet? 010
Reposted by Joseph DanteSamuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Claire Wahmanholm from 32 Poems No. 45 263
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I am very burnt out from this semester. It’s always people. People are exhausting. 010
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I want to do rejection erasures but most of the form rejections are barely a sentence long. At least give me something to work with! 010
Reposted by Joseph DanteStephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social · 27/03/2026My chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN is now available from Bottlecap Press. The pieces explore marginal life and have magical or fantastical elements. They're sad but I hope you enjoy them. #booksky #fiction #bottlecappress bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd 13614
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 09/03/2026It’s my spring break. I’m going to get a haircut, work on poems, and go to the library. 010
Reposted by Joseph DanteJohn Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 24/02/2026Friendly reminder I got laid off recently & want the bookstore to be my main job alongside Amanda. Spent the last week brainstorming how to make it happen. Some cool things you could do to help: -Buy books at @eveninghouse.bsky.social, in-person or online -buy Boxcutters or Feast -hype either 🍻🙏🫡eveninghousebooks.comEvening House BooksBuffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices. 34539
Reposted by Joseph DanteJoseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 22/02/2026My poem in the latest Hayden’s Ferry Review. Grateful to the editors, who also nominated the piece for Best Small Fictions. You can grab your copy of the issue here: haydensferryreview.com/issue-77 072
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 22/02/2026My poem in the latest Hayden’s Ferry Review. Grateful to the editors, who also nominated the piece for Best Small Fictions. You can grab your copy of the issue here: haydensferryreview.com/issue-77 072
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I don’t really care about ekphrastic poetry and there is so much of it. 210
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I did an in-class handwritten essay with my class and I am way happier reading these than all the AI slop I got last semester. 010
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 11/02/2026It seems like submission windows are getting smaller and smaller. 😭 010
Reposted by Joseph DanteRust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 01/02/2026New #poetry from Ariel Machell: "When Professor [ _ ] Says My Poor Memory Is Why I’ll Never Be Great".rustandmoth.comWhen Professor [ _ ] Says My Poor Memory Is Why I’ll Never Be Great | Rust & MothI am not remembering how oikos and logos join hands in The Song of the Earth, I am remembering the way my breath made frosted fairies in the air outside of the coffee shop on 14th avenue where I first... 094
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Five college classes I took: - The Psychological Novel - Victorian Poetry - Creative Writing - Social Deviancy - Myth, Ritual, & Mysticism 021
Reposted by Joseph DanteHayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · 16/01/2026We are excited to release our Issue 77 , and our web preview is now live! Explore the preview, purchase your copy, and register for our 1/21 launch event. We look forward to sharing the full depth and breadth of Issue 77 with you! All links available here: linktr.ee/haydensferry... 142
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 15/01/2026I sometimes get mad when writers are too good. How dare you. 010
Reposted by Joseph DanteJoel Hans @joelhans.com · 12/01/2026My debut collection of speculative short stories, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award, is now available for preorder and, well, I hope you'll want one when it releases this time next month. Get it from The University of Arkansas Press: www.uapress.com/product/bedt... 43311
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I’m going to start a lit journal just so I can say no to people. 140
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 01/01/2026For 2026. Let’s go. Read my full blog here: josephdante.com/2025/12/2025... 010
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 01/01/2026It feels like my husband has been watching football for 17 hours. 110
Reposted by Joseph DanteJessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 01/01/2026In 2026, if you don’t already, start keeping a personal journal. You don’t need to write every day. They want to destroy history. Tearing down the East Wing, throwing away NASA archives, removing Smithsonian exhibits and historical markers… Keep your own history. We might need it later. 1205
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Goodbye to 2025. 👋 It’s time for my end of the year blog, which includes my favorite books, games, podcasts, etc. This one was certainly something (derogatory) and took me a while to write. ✍️ Have at it: josephdante.com/2025/12/2025... 030
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 31/12/2025“Whether we are happy or unhappy leads us to write one way or another. When we are happy our imagination is stronger; when we are unhappy our memory works with greater vitality.” —Natalia Ginzburg 074
