Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yep. We’re taking a trip to Colorado though this week, thank goodness. 😅 110 0
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 0
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 21/09/2026static.klipy.comIlana How Am IALT: Ilana How Am I 010 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 21/08/2026At least the invasive dinosaur-sized iguanas are happy. 110 0
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This happens to my husband too. Fortunately, I sleep like the dead. 010 0
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 12/08/2026As a depressed person, this resonated. “Think of yourself as their guardian.” 020 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I’m grateful to my professors who assigned us modern drama. I probably wouldn’t have paid attention to it otherwise. 010 0
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 0
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 0
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Social media really has made so many people so literal-minded and reactionary. It’s exhausting. 120 0
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Some very good writers are very bad at titles. 000 0
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 0
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Tiny Bookshop is great, if you haven’t played that. 110 0
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 0
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I’m sorry, John. Much love to you and your family. 010 0
Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 03/06/2026That is so funny that your therapist asked that. 110 0
