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David Wojo

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Writer | Freelance Designer | Educator | Baker | Full-length with Gold Wake Press | Chapbook with Greying Ghost | Hi

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 10h
I’m spiraling over a pumpkin that rotted way too soon in case you’re wondering how I’ve been doing mentally the last…2 years.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It's basically a diary of fears about my wife's health. Don't think it's anything publishable...
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My ramble-y CNF project on anticipatory grief has reached 15k words...really wish this wasn't something that's part of my life.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
That’s exactly what happened when I raised concerns to a publisher I work for…
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I have zero glue. I’m not sure what my plan is beyond this…
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I thought you might!
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Working on my HULK erasure MS…
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Black Ocean @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
One week from tonight! 🌙 Join us at Harvard's Lamont Library for the Moon Country Korean Poetry Series Reading with Spencer Lee-Lenfield, Shin Hae-uk, Mattho Mandersloot & Janaka Stucky. Mon, Oct 19 · 6:00 pm Room 330, 11 Quincy St, Cambridge Details here: buff.ly/eZ52xuP
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Me (40) finishing chapter 4 of a Goosebumps book: You dumb fucks. Those kids are obviously ghosts. Your dog figured it out.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Vanity press author: “Could the team use these AI generated icons that I created myself?” I. CREATED. MYSELF.
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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
34 years ago today, Ned Flanders saved Homer Simpson from a house fire. #TheSimpsons episode “Homer the Heretic” first aired October 8, 1992.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Short Talks is one of the best books of poetry. End of discussion.
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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today is Unrivered's first birthday! Thank you to all of you who have read or shared or allowed me to read its poems at you. I appreciate you all. You can still find it through your favorite local bookstore or on the @sundresspub.bsky.socia website.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you!
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here's one of my favorite poems from my new MS of ekphrastic prose poems (this one appeared in @bulbregion.bsky.social) AND here's a link to the animation that inspired it: 35mm.online/en/vod/anima...
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have two tiny poems in the latest issue of @petrichorlit.bsky.social 🐂 here's one of them petrichormag.com/31-pebbles-v... #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
The Reason for the Traffic Jam

A lit candle
in the wound
of a bull. This
is all we know
at this time.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Any research pros out there? I’m trying to locate the rights holder for a painting…
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Didn't multiple studies show that working from home didn't affect productivity and only lead to happier workers? But they were like, nah, the real estate market would collapse, what are we gonna do with all these offices? Turn the into affordable housing? Fuck that.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We got each other the same card…
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Two years married! We celebrated by waking up early and making yeast donuts for the first time!
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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
YO BUFFALO
Poster showing books by Adam Voith, John Chrostek, and LJ Pemberton. FREE (reading), Friday, October 2 at 7pm. Buffalo, Evening House Books. Join us Friday, October 2 at 7pm at Evening House Books, 523 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, for a reading with Adam Voith, John Chrostek, and LJ Pemberton. BRIGHT PINK background.
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Christopher Kennedy @boa-editions.bsky.social
Amish Radio

Wind travels around the world to speak its piece. A hurricane reaches shore. The sea untangles itself. A woman loses her mind. Willows slap their Buddhist limbs against the house. We hold our ears to the ground to listen for horses. There are four.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please stop posting excerpts from my diary. I don't appreciate it.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Final copies of Brian Evenson's PHANTOM LIMB have landed! Preorders coming your way soon. Publishes October 13th!!!
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
yes, i needed this reminder. maybe you do too.💚
a white-painted concrete railing post with a cable rail coated in light blue plastic on a concrete pier. the post has a hand-lettered sticker reading “YOU HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE”. the low rainclouds glower overhead.
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sundress author Donna Vorreyer has new work out in Tahoma Literary Review! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections…
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Partial Autobiography in Three Parts - Tahoma Literary Review
Partial Autobiography in Three Parts I.Once a daisy was a microphone, and I sang into its petaled star. I had a knack for hiding in the pantry with my
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I honestly do appreciate that aspect.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No cover letter. No bio. Just an attached 100+ line poem that they're submitting to a magazine printed on postcards...
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Honestly kinda want to change my ekphrastic MS title from Kielbasa to The Animation Show.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you know…
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
To AWP Chicago or not to AWP Chicago? (I gotta decide today.)
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For whatever reason, most of my book design work is in prose, so I'm really enjoying working on this 500 page collected poems.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wish we still lived in a world where, “He can’t just knock down the Kennedy Center” was a true fact.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We have a dishwasher we never use and it is the perfect place for tupperware.
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The capital of capital / is a city impossible to besiege. It moves, / after all, all the barons and pirates..." Two poems by 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐙𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭 @janezwart.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-jane-zwart.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
Market Forces
When there was less, it was easier to tell 
a story about why there wasn’t enough.
Inside the lion’s emptiness, the zebra’s;
inside the zebra’s, the field’s; inside that,
the sky’s. In the age of sieges, you could
draw a circle around a city and, just like that, 
boost the cost of flour. And doors’ futures.

In the age of abstractions, a market force
can not be demoed in dominoes. Instead
the tongues of our sneakers tell tales.
In all of them, the capital of capital 
is a city impossible to besiege. It moves,
after all, all the barons and pirates
setting up shop over and over, halfway
between a zeitgeist and the latest fad.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I keep going for walks and listening to this album and that can’t be healthy but fuck it’s so incredible and heartbreaking and captures so much of what I fear.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've been waiting a long time for this book!
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Any chance this is from that project you told me about 12 years ago and some of which appeared in Salt Hill? I loved those poems.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And maybe kind of technically the new Andrew Garfield movie?
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We're holding out for a physical release so we can borrow it from the library! Hoping that happens soon...
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
After a health related delay, we finished our Robin Hood marathon and here’s my ranking. Lindsay’s is the same but 2 and 3 are swapped. AMA
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New cover design! Plus an alternate option that didn't make it but I still liked an awful lot.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As a designer, I've been trying so hard to get a press to let me use an author photo for the full back cover for so long now and no one is into the idea. This was the way once...
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Student emailed me to promise they didn’t use AI to write their assignment but only used co-pilot to put in MLA format. They say they’re encouraged to use it in their professional capacity… People are using AI for the easiest, simplest things without a thought.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's been 10 years since I rewatched the X-Files. I guess it's time to do it again.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's not something I talk about too often or publicly because I don't know how. Or if I should. The CNF thing I've been adding to for years now is just basically me chronicling the anticipated grief.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I used to read so much more. I used to watch weird, cerebral stuff. I used to try to do so much more. But the past few years, by the end of the day I'm just done. I just want to shut my brain off and watch mindless movies and TV on the couch with her.
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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My mind and body are exhausted. They've been exhausted for years. My baseline high anxiety and stress coupled with years of near constant worrying about my wife's health. I give myself a lot of shit for not doing more. Not achieving more. I need to be OK with doing my best given the circumstances.
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