Travis Shosa

Still bad at keeping up with this place buuuuuuuut got my first in-person reading gig. If you’re in the area, roll up. Alienated Majesty, Austin, TX, January 17 🫡

My poem “A Black Helicopter Hangs Over the City Like Mistletoe” will appear in the inaugural issue of Dodo Eraser. Big thx to @travisshosa.bsky.social

I never know how much to post here because it feels so dead but this does feel post worthy.

So I got nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

🫡

Also I should promote this here because why not?

I’m holding a virtual reading tonight. First time ever I’m reading my poems for an audience and it could be a very entertaining disaster so you should message me for the link and roll up.

Rubbing shoulders here with some pretty established heavy hitters 💀

Was very honored to be asked to send something in for this. In wrestling terms I’m very much the “young boy” in most spaces I’ve been in this year, and to be thought of for a launch is very validating.

I have a new story which contains the phrase "fuckboy with a heart of gold" in the just-launched Some Words, a literary journal shaped like a message board.

Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing

My new lit journal has launched. It's hosted on a message board. We've got five pieces up for the launch — send us some work, because I'm hoping next week to start publishing one piece per day M-F.

I have new work in this literary journal that is published on a web forum!

Very proud to inaugurate my third lit mag for the year, Justin Carter’s new MESSAGE BOARD site @somewordslit.bsky.social. This is “I Will Carve a Mountain In Your Heart.” Please visit the site and read the other launch piece that don’t fit neatly in a screenshot. 🫡

somewords.boards.net/board/3/work

Some Words is live with new work by:

John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda

Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work

Hey hey! New poem up about how much I hate Hobby Lobby and how dumb JK Rowling is and how my ex told me I fuck like a woman. Read it, clap for it at the bottom if ya dig it. Thanks to Genrepunk!

Got nominated for Best of the Net. Unfortunately for the haters, I seem to be halfway decent at poetry.

Thank you!

HANGMAN by Travis Shosa - BRUISER Lo, the lone Hangman He arrived, sat upon a Pale horse, grimacing He was great, of course Bound for love and gilded waist Chosen gleaming pain

Wrote a poem partially inspired by the @hangmanpage.bsky.social / @swerveconfident.bsky.social feud in AEW and it got published on @bruisermag.com so go check it out 🫡

www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman

Hangman doesn’t choose
Who dies, he drops the rope and
The pale horse decides

HANGMAN by Travis Shosa

www.bruisermag.com/shosa_hangman

Uncle Emmington (Huntsville, Furniture, & Alphabet Soup) | Cast #107 YouTube video by Gulf Coast Music

Yo! You should watch this!

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Deactivated my Twitter backup. Don’t know how much I’m gonna be here but maybe more than before, I dunno. I feel like the tiny sense of online community I had has been eradicated the past two years.

I was previously *very online* because of journalism. Keeping on top of things through socials, networking, etc. Now I don’t need to do that, so I’m online far less often. Will pop in occasionally to share a poem or something.

Hey all, I’m not dead, just really not doing anything with music anymore because the stress/harassment/etc. is not worth it and if I wanted to be treated like crap, working retail would be a better option because the pay is at least consistent.

New content every morning! Now I eat nothing but shrimp on the Barbie™

Poetry updates:

“Gogoplata,” a *psychosexual* prose poem, has landed on Citywide Lunch.

citywidelunch.wordpress.com/gogoplata-by...

“The Australian Diaspora,” an intertextual cultural satire poem (also with sex puns), has landed on The Gorko Gazette.

thegorkogazette.com/2025/06/18/t...

Still waiting on Twitter to deal with my account hack. I’m like barely frustrated about it now? I dunno, I’ve been online for like maybe half an hour total this weekend and it’s great. Been doing the Retsnom route in Hundred Line, wrote some poetry, lots of meditation. I think social media sucks.

*thing

Anyways yeah I’m trying to sort it out but it’s a process.

Whole damn this is a mess but it went back to what it was kinda? No profile pic anymore though. Whoever hacked my account is having a weird one.

So this is what’s going on with my Twitter account right now.

Well, time to be on here a bit more since I have been bodysnatched on Twitter. I have been doing poems. 3 acceptances this week! I made a bad website you can check out. 🫡

www.travisshosaisdoingpoems.com/published-po...

My personal Twitter account @tsdenizen has been hacked. It's private so I can't monitor it at all, but please disregard everything from that account until further notice.

Why not read my new piece at BRUISER? www.bruisermag.com/zeller_cubist

THE LIMBO OF COOLNESS by Travis Shosa - BRUISER When I was in school, a Real Stunner imparted that I was “Cooler than I looked,” which I took to mean that I was built like a mathlete but mentally

Very stoked to have made my @bruisermag.com debut with “The Limbo of Coolness,” a poem that is a triptych but also a stand-up monologue but also an essay about masking with enjambments rooted in jazz theory and I will shut up now just uh give it a read I guess 🫡

www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo

Eulogy Press A literary magazine that rejects what's safe to create something meaningful.

Here’s an incredible review of my latest chapbook, written by @travisshosa.bsky.social for Eulogy Press. eulogy.press#fruit-and-an...