Like the chimp that ripped off his master’s face, I just want to see life through your eyes for once, babe.
thedrevlow
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editor-in-chief BULL, author of the book of rusty, a good ram is hard to find, ina-baby: a love story in reverse, & bend with the knees and other love advice from my father (thedrevlow-olsonshow.com)
Trying to line up some readings for this Fall/Spring. Anybody out there in Georgia or thereabouts who'd be willing to host a reading at their school/bookstore/library/etc.? Happy to pair up with other writers as well. Please share if you know anybody. Here are some clips: www.youtube.com/@thedrevlow
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This is a great novel by @thedrevlow.bsky.social and @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Funny and absurd and gut-wrenching
THE CAPTAIN'S BEEN DRINKING out August 18 with @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social "an often hilarious, often offensive and often tragic chameleon of a novel." @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social
Nevermind me, I’m just the guy at Walmart with my hoodie & sunglasses paying in cash for this bleach, mop, tarp, rope, duck tape, zip ties, shovel, chainsaw, garden shears, kitty litter, lighter fluid, flashlight, burner phone, latex gloves, booties, coveralls, fake mustache, & blond wig.
THE CAPTAIN'S BEEN DRINKING out August 18 with @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social "an often hilarious, often offensive and often tragic chameleon of a novel." @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social
Many thanks to the brilliant @alexandranaughton.bsky.social & Be About It for publishing my love unrequited story about a trash panda and a flea named Freddie. beaboutitpress.substack.com/p/i-tell-mys...
i tell myself I’m the platonic idea for a trash panda
a new poem by Ben Drevlow
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If you get four dogs and you give them all different voices and personalities and make them talk to you all day and all night about all their hopes and dreams and all your hopes and dreams, you can pretend that you actually have friends and family that love you.
have been hacked again on Twitter, which, is pretty much on me for thinking I wouldn't get hacked on Twitter. But anyway, I guess all my hot takes will have to go on blueski now. Twitter's loss is y'all's gain.
"You don’t have to like golden showers per se, you just have to learn to like getting pissed on. You don’t have to like Cleveland steamers per se, you just have to learn to like getting shit on." @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social www.godscrueljokelit.com/b-drevlow-2-...
Benjamin Drevlow - 2 Poems — God's Cruel Joke
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Feel like it's destiny that I'd get published by a lit mag called God's Cruel Joke, but I still can't thank Lee Pearson enough for publishing these little ugly babies including the line: "You don’t have to like golden showers per se, you just have to learn to like getting pissed on."
Two new poems this evening from @thedrevlow.bsky.social "I didn’t become The Amazing Spider-Man. / That’s all you. / I just got a big old arm bump filled with puss. / And a lifetime of recurring nightmares of spider babies crawling around me everywhere." www.godscrueljokelit.com/b-drevlow-2-...
Always happy to say good shit about @thedrevlow.bsky.social's work because he always writes good shit. CJ Poetry Review, Good Garbage: Benjamin Drevlow's Trash Poems For Trash People, www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/drevlows-tra...
I always tell the kids: you can be anything you want when you grow up if you have a dissociative identity disorder.
I can stop writing now. There's no higher praise I can hope for than this: "If [Drevlow's] thoughts on love and sex and life sit somewhere between a dumpster behind a Domino's, time on the toilet, and a dog's dick, well, that's just honesty." cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/drevlows-tra...
Drevlow's Trash Poems
I don't know if the world knew it needed a book of poetry about trash, but it did, and Ben Drevlow was just the author to write it. Amid the detritus of our daily lives of waste–crumpled...
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Always happy to say good shit about @thedrevlow.bsky.social's work because he always writes good shit. CJ Poetry Review, Good Garbage: Benjamin Drevlow's Trash Poems For Trash People, www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/drevlows-tra...
In today's Friday Five Q&A, I talk with @thedrevlow.bsky.social about his new book, "Trash Poems for Trash People," his role as @mrbullbull.bsky.social EIC, and the writers who most influence him. andrewcareaga.com/2026/05/08/f... #WritingCommunity
Friday Five: talking trash with Benjamin Drevlow
A Q&A with the author of ‘Trash Poems for Trash People’ and editor of BULL.
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Thanks so so much to the beautiful & brilliant @andrewcareaga.bsky.social for the kind words and for taking the time to interview big fat trash-human me. Twas a pleasure. Maybe you check it out, maybe?https://andrewcareaga.com/2026/05/08/friday-five-talking-trash-with-ben-drevlow/
Thanks so much to the great David Staggs for these kind words over at Goodreads: "Drevlow is honest, irreverent, and self-deprecating. His poetry is at times funny, at times gut wrenching, at times heart wrenching, but it is always honest." www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...
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“She feels the sky drawing her up. At the same time, the inverted bowl of sky pushes down. It is like that optical illusion where you can’t tell if the black horse is headed toward you or walking away.” @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in Painted Bride Quarterly pbqmag.org/patricia-q-b...
Patricia Q. Bidar: Colfax - Painted Bride Quarterly
Colfax Cristina swallows the last of the loose pills from Julian’s glove box. Within a few minutes, fresh energy blooms and fizzes within her; the sensation is of tumbling backward into space. Julian...
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This one from another genius, kind, beautiful human, Peter DeMarco: "Drevlow’s punchy, blunt, crude, profane, vulgar, sincere and at times poignant style turns all those trashy problems inside out." www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Books of 2026: 16 Trash Poems for Trash People I consider @thedrevlow.bsky.social my friend. I don't know poetry. These don't read like Billy Collins or Mary Oliver. There is nothing beautiful. There is a lot of vulnerability. A lot of hard truth. A lot of shared humanity.
Now to distract myself from the trashfire of 2026 with petty self-promotion. This one's from the genius, kind, beautiful human, @lmbayley.bsky.social "We have powerful, urgent language. We are unsettled. We are changed. We are left wanting to know what happens next."
Read my ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐review of @thedrevlow.bsky.social 's Trash Poems For Trash People here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
"Here I am with my clown face on and hacking away at this bloody corpse & immediately you’re making assumptions." In my mind this is about the power of art to heal. Thanks to @burialmagazine.bsky.social who kindly overlooked their conscience & published it burialmagazine.neocities.org/clownface
Clown Face
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I have a new story out today in @mrbullbull.bsky.social ! Thanks so much to @thedrevlow.bsky.social for his continued support of my Aldous stories. xoxoxo #FlashInTheFeed P.S. This was begun in a @mattkendrick.bsky.social workshop and finished in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop! Many thanks! 🥰
"He’s always told his boys, If at first you don’t succeed, say to hell with it and give up. His ankle’s been hurting him since 1939. It wasn’t even his fault; he was only a little bit drunk when the car slammed his motorbike into a brick wall." @lmbayley.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
What if Ed Gein & John Wayne Gacy had a son who was a clown/pig farmer who hosted local middle school field trips to educate children about ethical pig farming practices? (Shout out to the kind & brilliant @burialmagazine.bsky.social for publishing this baby) burialmagazine.neocities.org/clownface
Clown Face
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Got one day left on my free Prime trial, anybody want a copy of trash pomes in exchange for a review? (even just Amazon or Goodreads or whatever)? DM me your address. www.amazon.it/dp/B0GV7WQK7D
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“If a mime mimes dying in the forest, does he make a sound? If a mime mimes a mime miming his hanging of himself, will anybody laugh?” @thedrevlow.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/An-elegy-for...
An elegy for a mime named Freddie, by Drevlow — The Bulb Region
An elegy for a mime named Freddie — Drevlow At what point does the invisible box start to close in on...
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The sound is trash and I flubbed the last line, but that’s probably fitting for old Shel. youtube.com/shorts/NdEvj...
drevlow pomes “Like Love or Something” & “Not Quite Love But” Savannah GA Inkwell LitFest 4/15/2026
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Thanks so much to the man @Dee_P_R_Kay for these actual kind words about #trashpomes4trashpeople "Even though these poems deal with heavy issues, the bright spot is Drevlow’s humor and willingness to be a rainbow in hell amidst the trash heap." www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...
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Thanks so much @bulbregion.bsky.social. Y'all rock the hardest.
Tomorrow we return with a splendid combo of prose and poetry, but before then, we highly recommend you spend the wait time reading these three killer poems by our recent contributor @thedrevlow.bsky.social, published in Hobart: www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
Very humbled by all the praise coming in for TRASH POMES FOR TRASH PEOPLE: "I’m really trying to find something nice to say. I really am." - Billy Collins amzn.eu/d/04iAdmJo
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Just finished reading “Ina-Baby: a love story in reverse” by @thedrevlow.bsky.social published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and it has already shifted my thinking about every word I’ve ever written. Like, I want I do- over. Burn it all down. My God, this book.