Josh Shepard

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

James, this fuckin' rules.

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

bruiser is cool as hell AND here are 3 more poems from me

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.

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, …

if you're looking for a quick and strange read for the Sealey Challenge, please consider my chapbook "Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance" !!!!!

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Friends, the time has arrived.

Welcome to YANO SEASON.

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

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...

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!

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

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...

Poetry and comedy… high risk idea but actually a great success

Read this yesterday and I love it.

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

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’

BRUISER has a POSSE.

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Sting in his classic “Surfer” look, wearing a PWI t-shirt.

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...

human library by mark wadley — scaffold literary magazine flash fiction

Our bruiser-in-chief has a short story out today in the excellent new mag scaffold: www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

Haven't been posting here for a while but just got an influx of new followers so I guess we'll get back on it. Check out www.bruisermag.com to see what you've been missing

𝘾𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙨 by @joshshepard.bsky.social is awesome! Preorder it now from @bruiser.bsky.social

BRUISER Zine 002: 𝘾𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙨: 𝙋𝙧𝙤 𝙒𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙀𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙢𝙨 by @joshshepard.bsky.social will ship beginning Saturday, February 24.

"a life lesson that will never go out of style." - @justinkarcher.bsky.social

Preorder now: bruiser.gumroad.com/l/cutting-pr...

MORE ZINES INCOMING. We are very pleased to announce the remaining zines in our first print series, featuring exciting work from Josh Shepard, Arzhang Zafar, Ashley E. Walters, David Simmons, and a collaboration between Kelly Xio & Aeon Ginsberg

Read more here: bruisermag.com/zines_lineup

Architecture (Eccentric Construction) by László Moholy-Nagy, 1916

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137247

Fan fiction is important this, YA is important that. how about I DDT you through a table

September was a good month for buying books by poets ❤️

coworker asked if i had any poems published lately so i’m reporting them to hr

you feel it boiling?
that shaking, cracking—
dammit, we look like hell.

Two erasure poems constructed from wrestling promos by Josh Shepard: www.bruisermag.com/two-wrestlin...

My unnoticed pop culture references are a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom

Mad King in Japan: A Conversation with Eddie Kingston Eddie Kingston speaks about the NJPW tour that fulfilled his dreams and fuels his future.

NEW: Eddie Kingston’s tour with New Japan Pro Wrestling was the realization of a lifelong dream. As he tells @josephweirdness.bsky.social, his success there has only made him hungrier when it comes to his future. 🤼‍♀️

www.explodingcage.com/eddie-kingst...