David Estringel

Delighted to have 3 VU-themed poems accepted by @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for 'The Rules of Verse-Poetry Inspired by The Velvet Underground' edition. Such a quick response too🔥

Gratitude to EIC @davidestringel.bsky.social & Poetry Editors @hubbsd.bsky.social & @seangmeggeson.bsky.social🙏

🌟SUBS OPEN🌟 Blood + Honey + The Velvet Underground @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Rules of Verse: Poems Inspired by The Velvet Underground🖤Send us your evocative + crazy poems about VU! Subs close Dec. 15. EIC @davidestringel.bsky.social Poetry eds. @hubbsd.bsky.social @seangmeggeson.bsky.social #poetry

Wooohooo! My poem "Palo Santo" (from Brujeria) is included in The Alien Buddha's Best of 2025! Thanks,
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social!!!

Wooohooo! My poem "Pomogranates" (from Down the Bermuday Highway) is included in The Alien Buddha's Best of 2025! Thanks, @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social!

the screams of jellyfish — Blood+Honey by ­­ Michael Czyzniejewski “ ­­ One by one, they fell into the trap, each jellyfish pierced on a different spike, their jelly seeping out, oozing down the wood. Worse, the jellyfish were screaming...

Thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and his team at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for publishing this new story, "The Screams of the Jellyfish," in their October issue!

Thanks, too, to @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the early eyes.

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The Opiate: Fall 2025, Vol. 43 Is it fall or just the fall of humanity? Whatever your take, The Opiate, Vol. 43 is here to help you during this difficult time of AI revolution/human work and art overthrow. To combat your woes, dive

The Opiate's @theopiatemag Fall 25 issue is out, along with my CNF piece "Dishes Best Served Cold." BIG thanks to EIC Genna Rivieccio for the acceptance. Still one of my favorite lit mags EVER!

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Looks like I'll be doing a creative presentation at the 2026 Southern Humanities Conference “Tides and Time, Ebbs and Flows” in Annapolis, MD in early Spring. Gonna read selected poems from my upcoming poetry collection 'Bucolia." This will be my 2nd one with SHC. Very excited!

FYI: Blood + Honey Submittable porthole is ready to roll for Rules of Verse: Poetry Inspired by The Velvet Underground. @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
Poetry Editor: @hubbsd.bsky.social
Guest Poetry Editor @seangmeggeson.bsky.social
#poetry #poem #poetrysubs #litmag

Poem, "Roseblood," in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
"Fictile Feelings" (Poetry Special, October '25) Issue. 🥰 to Guest Editor S. Sethi!

"...turn your blind eyes from this solemn procession / and the roseblood underfoot / some spots aren’t meant to wash away."

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General submissions are now OPEN for Issue #6, scheduled for publication December 15, 2025 @ 6 PM CST. Send us your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!!

Subs open tomorrow! Looking forward to reading your VU-inspired lines! @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
EIC @davidestringel.bsky.social
Poetry Editor @hubbsd.bsky.social
Guest Poetry Editor @seangmeggeson.bsky.social
#poetry #poetrysubmissions

the haunt of age: a 5-step program for ghosting your ghost — Blood+Honey by Karen Crawford “…anticipate your ghost’s surprise when she floats into the bedroom where your new nipped/tucked body lies. If she goes all poltergeist, rattle, and chain, flash her a ‘friendly’ s...

Thrilled to have a salty little micro up in the great @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social ! Thank you
@davidestringel.bsky.social for having it!!

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BIG thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social and EIC @thedrevlow.bsky.social for accepting my two micros, "Black Cherry" and "Ghost"!!! 🐂

Woohoo! Gonna have my CNF piece "Dishes Best Served Cold" (originally published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) reprinted in The Opiate's Fall print issue. Love that mag! BIG thanks to Genna for the acceptance.

Subs open in 🖤🔟🖤days!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
Poetry ed.: @hubbsd.bsky.social
Guest Poetry Ed.: @seangmeggeson.bsky.social

“The Velvet Underground won’t replace anything … except maybe suicide.” --Cher.
Rules of Verse: subs open Oct 1
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
Poetry editor: @hubbsd.bsky.social
Guest Poetry editor: @seangmeggeson.bsky.social
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social

It is only with the support of journals like @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social and the hard work of editors like @davidestringel.bsky.social that we can reach new audiences and find the reciprocal energies to keep putting work out. Thank you

Do you know Leopold von Sacher-Masoch? If so, maybe you have a poem to submit for Blood + Honey's Velvet Underground Special issue: Rules of Verse? Subs open Oct 1 on Submittable
@hubbsd.bsky.social
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
@davidestringel.bsky.social
#poetry
#thevelvetunderground

“SHADOWHEAD (YELLOW), 2017” – “DIRTY BLACK ROAD” Shadowhead (Yellow), 2017 –after Richard Hambleton (1952-2017) soul projectionmindscramble ejectionscorched‘cross the slickof a jaundice skycreepingseepingscreamingweeping,polyester emanation…

Got a couple of poems, "Shadowhead (Yellow), 2017" and "Dirty Back Road," up at Apocalypse Confidential. BIG thanks to the editorial team for publishing these pieces.

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My latest WiR story on my favorite lit journal @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social came out last night and it's about brotherhood/sisterhood against hardship/grief.

Thank you @davidestringel.bsky.social for giving it a beautiful home ❤️

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The Density of Negative Space by: David Estringel

Poem "The Density of Negative Space"
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New poem "The Density of Negative Space" accepted for publication at Cataloguing Poetry Magazine. BIG thanks to @poetjohncompton.bsky.social for the acceptance.

Psyched to have my new poem "Roseblood" accepted for publication in The Hooghly Review's @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social special issue in October '25. BIG thanks for Sanjeev Sethi for the acceptance.

Shadow Man Poems (inspired by the life and art of Richard Hambleton) Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash . . Blood Flowers, 2003           –after Richard Hambleton (1952-2017) . Red petal…

Got a mini-collection of (mostly) ekphrastic poems published today at @dailydrunkmag.bsky.social about the life and art of street art GOAT Richard Hambleton. BIG thanks to the editors at The Daily Drunk for the acceptance.

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Big thanks to The Gorko Gazette and EIC Colin Gee for publishing "Shadow Cat, 2004," an ekphrastic poem based upon one of Richard Hambleton's shadow art pieces and his heroin addiction--metaphorically "the shadow cat."

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Thrilled to have my micro piece "Down the Bermuda Highway" reprinted by Mythic Picnic. HUGE thanks to the editors for accepting this piece that was originally published at the very cool Citywide Lunch (citywidelunch.wordpress.com)

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ukulele stu — Blood+Honey by Benjamin Drevlow “Every morning I mount my throne in the handicapped stall of the rec fields pavilion men’s room bare-assed with my sweatpants between my knees trying to do my business with 3 tra...

So much love to @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
@davidestringel.bsky.social, &
@happilander.bsky.social for publishing this roller coaster of a story about a flyer for a ukulele club. Would be grateful if you would give her a quick little read.
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Photo by the Cleveland Museum of Art

Got a batch of my Shadow Man poems, based on the life and art of GOAT 🐐 street artist Richard Hambleton, coming to you soon at @dailydrunkmag.bsky.social HUGE thanks to Shawn Berman & Seth Borkowski for the acceptance! 🥰

Proud to have my short fiction THE LOSER pubbed by @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social. Big thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and his team!

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three poems — Blood+Honey by Jacob Schepers “Queen / Latifah bites it / from the jellyfish  / attack that starts out / so cute and like little nibbles.”

"Three Poems" by Jacob Schepers

“Queen / Latifah bites it / from the jellyfish / attack that starts out / so cute and like little nibbles.”

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