Writer and instructor living in FL. 🐈‍⬛ ✍️ 📚 🎮 🏳️‍🌈 http://josephdante.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mv4glzb7622gIncidentally, this platform feels so dead compared to others. What gives? Just a lot less active users I guess?09 Sep 2026 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4glzb7622ghttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mv4gjunodc2zI 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. 🤧 😪09 Sep 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4gjunodc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mupcwikg7c2rSubmissions are open for our fall reading period until we reach our submission cap (in about ~1.2 hours).04 Sep 2026 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupcwikg7c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mtsc2xxtzc2dMy 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.24 Aug 2026 02:47 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsc2xxtzc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3msu2rocq4k2nAs a depressed person, this resonated. “Think of yourself as their guardian.”12 Aug 2026 02:17 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3msu2rocq4k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3msu2lkdyzs2nCurrently reading.12 Aug 2026 02:13 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3msu2lkdyzs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3ms7syepkx22cRejection erasure.04 Aug 2026 01:04 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7syepkx22chttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3ms4rsr6kzs2zI think the Sealey Challenge is great, but I can never participate because I can’t and won’t read poetry that quickly.02 Aug 2026 20:05 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms4rsr6kzs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3ms2qp47q3s2y“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.”02 Aug 2026 00:40 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms2qp47q3s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3ms253gnurc27I posted a new blog yesterday: summer musings, our first avocados, cat walks, writing updates, trying to go more analog. You can read it here: https://josephdante.com/2026/07/were-all-punks-now/01 Aug 2026 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms253gnurc27https://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mrsnnx4r4224RIP, Benjamin Alire Saenz. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe remains one of my favorite queer coming of age books.29 Jul 2026 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrsnnx4r4224https://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mqze6b7moc2w“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’Connor19 Jul 2026 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqze6b7moc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mqzdji5lbs2lSocial media really has made so many people so literal-minded and reactionary. It’s exhausting.19 Jul 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzdji5lbs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mp34exrh4s2oSome very good writers are very bad at titles.24 Jun 2026 23:53 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp34exrh4s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3movlkcbpks2uKitties collecting their sunbeams.22 Jun 2026 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3movlkcbpks2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3moqkl4tmis2qRecent library borrows.20 Jun 2026 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3moqkl4tmis2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3moqkjki54k2qI’ve not been feeling poetry lately, although I have been writing it. Strange. Back to prose.20 Jun 2026 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3moqkjki54k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mnajcxbfd22kMy 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: https://www.folioliteraryjournal.com/on-the-playing-field01 Jun 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnajcxbfd22khttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mm5nt454fk22Spent 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: https://bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd18 May 2026 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5nt454fk22https://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mkvlrnfzyc2cGrades have been submitted. Time to cocoon.02 May 2026 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvlrnfzyc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mkt6q2tii22dGetting bored with rejections. I’d like to be surprised for once.01 May 2026 22:33 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkt6q2tii22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mksxe3yxnk2iI’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?01 May 2026 20:21 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksxe3yxnk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mkb7hkn5ss2wI am very burnt out from this semester. It’s always people. People are exhausting.24 Apr 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkb7hkn5ss2whttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mj4fhm3c2k2zThis place has two modes: bleak or boring.10 Apr 2026 03:37 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj4fhm3c2k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mimkf53ebk2iI want to do rejection erasures but most of the form rejections are barely a sentence long. At least give me something to work with!03 Apr 2026 20:23 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimkf53ebk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/josephdante.bsky.social/post/3mgql4hxd6k2qMe on spring break.10 Mar 2026 23:56 +0000at://did:plc:tc7hmjj7v2hulrbdcbqsrmvr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgql4hxd6k2q