Josh Shepard
@joshshepard.bsky.social
Poetry & Pro Wrestling | Author of CUTTING PROMOS: PRO WRESTLING ERASURE POEMS (BRUISER 2024) INSIDE VOICE (Ghost City Press 2022) | Managing Editor at BRUISER | Library Worker | Recent work: linktr.ee/JoshShepard | he/him
OKC! I’ll be signing copies of my books (including a new joint from @bruisermag.com) at The Floating Bookshop in OKC this Saturday, 9/26, from 2-4pm!
new poem out today in GONZOID! if you even care gonzoid.neocities.org/JoshShepard
THE ANSWER TO YOUR PRAYERS by Josh Shepard
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I approve and wholeheartedly endorse this new Tuesday column. I will return this (meterelogical) fall. See you then, if not before.
BRUISER@bruisermag.com · 4mo agoI hope we provide nothing more than intense curiosity and some context, and that the two come together in an alchemical concoction to make you briefly understand something that is dear to us. SC's JR Goldberg & EricR discuss an unusual match in SEGUNDA CAIDA #1: www.bruisermag.com/segundacaida...
When despair for the world grows in me, I watch the T-rex from Jurassic Park Three letters by Lily Herman www.bruisermag.com/Herman_ThreeLetters
"People ask what kind of dog Joey is and we tell them he’s a dumpster dog, because that’s where we found him, behind the KFC, licking up parking lot gravy and scavenging for gizzards" Wonderful stream-of-consciousness writing from @joshshepard.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/runnin-...
"Runnin’ Down a Dream" • Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (by Josh Shepard)
Saying “you be good.”
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Major 7th Magazine@major7mag.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew mixtape up for you! It will be one of our last. Details in my editor's letter Now playing: Volume 27 www.major7mag.com/post/literar...
New mixtape up for you! It will be one of our last. Details in my editor's letter Now playing: Volume 27 www.major7mag.com/post/literar...
Literary Mixtape Volume 27
On folding.
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@bruisermag.com is taking a much deserved break after a wild AWP weekend. Deals were made. Big things coming. My column will return when Bruiser does.
The homie @joshshepard.bsky.social having a sale of his worldly possessions @thefloatingbookshop.com , and he already hooked me up with some National Geographics and stamp making supplies(through the library!) So this spread dedicated to helping cool people who do cool stuff…D.i.y.
Shirts are selling GREAT but your metalhead brother is gonna be mad when he finds out you didn't get him the Brody jawn for Xmas
BRUISER@bruisermag.com · 11mo agoBRUISERS, LIT FREAKS and SMART MARKS: Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs. To help one of the very best of us, we are offering two shirts for preorder, with every dime going toward Josh's bills: bruisermag.bigcartel.com
BRUISERS, LIT FREAKS and SMART MARKS: Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs. To help one of the very best of us, we are offering two shirts for preorder, with every dime going toward Josh's bills: bruisermag.bigcartel.com
BRUISER ZINE 008: Lily Herman's poetry collection SPREE. Celebrate with us at Normals on Sunday 9/28! SPREE is available for preorder now: bruisermag.bigcartel.com/product/spree
many thanks to @bruisermag.com for publishing this one. please enjoy the trainer I made in the midst of hammering it out. or not, if you don't enjoy Japanese men trying to kill each other
Start your week off with the first round of YANO SEASON essays. Four matches, life experiences, grand theories about the great sport of professional wrestling, and the goddamn greatest wrestler of all time.
BRUISER@bruisermag.com · last yr.For two straight years NJPW has left the king of the G1 Climax out of the tournament, and we can’t stand it anymore. BRUISER and BIG EGG proudly present YANO SEASON, a celebration of the trickster god of Japanese wrestling from @colettearrand.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/arrand_yanos...
if you're looking for a quick and strange read for the Sealey Challenge, please consider my chapbook "Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance" !!!!! variantlit.com/product/td/
Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance
The titular father of Todd Dillard’s marvelous chapbook Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance quickly tells us “It’s my job to find the dead.” And so he does, navigating surfaced graveyards, …
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Friends, the time has arrived. Welcome to YANO SEASON.
BRUISER@bruisermag.com · last yr.For two straight years NJPW has left the king of the G1 Climax out of the tournament, and we can’t stand it anymore. BRUISER and BIG EGG proudly present YANO SEASON, a celebration of the trickster god of Japanese wrestling from @colettearrand.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/arrand_yanos...
The last time I saw him, he advised me to “abandon the craft if legacy is the intent.” I told him “tough shit, I have to get out of here.” I DREAM OF BEING ELSEWHERE by Brooke Nicole Plummer www.bruisermag.com/plummer_else...
I DREAM OF BEING ELSEWHERE by Brooke Nicole Plummer - BRUISER
I dream of being elsewhere — a provocative — luminous — lively place — where no one knows my name & Pepto-Bismol vomit is stained on the train
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Hey, I'm in BRUISER, one of my favorites places for great stuff! This is a short story about a dinner party and a man with a very tiny mouth. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks @bruisermag.com!
BRUISER@bruisermag.com · last yr.He smelled like garlic and gristle. I guess you can have bad breath no matter how small your mouth is. RIGHT, JUST A REGULAR HEAD BUT A TINY MOUTH LIKE ONLY A STRAW COULD FIT by @supernaturalfeat.com www.bruisermag.com/weaver_regul...
He smelled like garlic and gristle. I guess you can have bad breath no matter how small your mouth is. RIGHT, JUST A REGULAR HEAD BUT A TINY MOUTH LIKE ONLY A STRAW COULD FIT by @supernaturalfeat.com www.bruisermag.com/weaver_regul...
RIGHT, JUST A REGULAR HEAD BUT A TINY MOUTH LIKE ONLY A STRAW COULD FIT by Dan Weaver - BRUISER
That’s how I would describe it. Only a straw. I would describe the mouth as just super tiny. Like a pea. There was a regular jawline but I think
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Poetry and comedy… high risk idea but actually a great success
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
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
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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 ill. THE LIMBO OF COOLNESS by @travisshosa.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/shosa_limbo
Snarling at once, he drops lunch (and it floats out to sea for the meanest / jowls). Jonathan Swift in Translation by Jake and Madeleine Sheff. www.bruisermag.com/sheff_swift
Thanks to @joshshepard.bsky.social , all of our scifi and general fiction books are alphabetized We’ll be working hard tomorrow and Monday to make sure we’re ready for our reopening on Tuesday at 10’
I didn’t do a lot of writing this year that you can’t find on BIG EGG, but one thing I did do was a career retrospective with Sting for Pro Wrestling Illustrated. pwi-online.com/sting-retire...
Our bruiser-in-chief has a short story out today in the excellent new mag scaffold: www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
human library by mark wadley — scaffold literary magazine
flash fiction
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