Josette Akresh-Gonzales
@vivakresh.bsky.social
author of Apocalypse on the Linoleum (Lily). Poems in Southern Review, Indianapolis Review, Atticus, JAMA, and many other journals, as well as the anthologies Choice Words (Haymarket) and Breaking the Glass (Laurel). linktr.ee/josettepoet
Excited to win the runner-up spot! Thank you, @smartishpace.bsky.social !
Smartish Pace@smartishpace.bsky.social · 8mo agoHere are the winners of the 24th annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize! Thank you and congratulations to Michael Montlack, Josette Akresh-Gonzales, Aris Keshav, Rebecca Boyle, Julie Hanson, Michele Lent Hirsch, Matt Hohner, Zebulon Huset, Ibe Liebenberg, Marc Nasdor, and Burnside Soleil.
May Day poetry reading TONIGHT!! If you have more energy after the demonstrations today, please come out to The Square Root in Rozzie for a May Day poetry reading I'm part of, along with @jennmartelli.bsky.social 8pm. No cover charge.
May Day poetry reading TONIGHT!! If you have more energy after the demonstrations today, please come out to The Square Root in Rozzie for a May Day poetry reading I'm part of, along with @jennmartelli.bsky.social 8pm. No cover charge.
Policymakers learned nothing from the war in Vietnam, but I learned how much I hated war, growing up in the wake of it
Beltane May Day A poem about a farm fundraiser and marriage and springtime A poem about a couple who just lost their insurance A poem about sitting shivah for capitalism Come join me for this
Josette Akresh-Gonzales@vivakresh.bsky.social · last yr.May Day* set list Poems from my book: I buried the workweek Placenta Long suffering Other poems: The gates open—unpub’d poem Retirement—poem pub’d in Matter The desert god demands a tithe —new poem I would not laugh at a man in uniform —new poem * May 1, 8pm, The Square Root, Roslindale MA
May Day* set list Poems from my book: I buried the workweek Placenta Long suffering Other poems: The gates open—unpub’d poem Retirement—poem pub’d in Matter The desert god demands a tithe —new poem I would not laugh at a man in uniform —new poem * May 1, 8pm, The Square Root, Roslindale MA
Cicadas are coming to the northeast this summer, and I’m working on a poem about time. I’m hoping friends will send me storing their cicada encounters, to put into the poem, which will be in “we” voice like the swarm.
May I read some labor related poems to you on May Day?
Josette Akresh-Gonzales@vivakresh.bsky.social · last yr.Got plans for May Day yet? Come to Square Root for some poetry
Got plans for May Day yet? Come to Square Root for some poetry
500+ Jews show up to stand with our immigrant neighbors in Boston and beyond against illegal deportations this Pesach @truahrabbis.bsky.social @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social #SederintheStreets #freeMahmoud #freeRumeysah #freeMohsen
BOSTON MA: On this 6th night of Passover, over 300 Jews have gathered to demand the release of Rümeysa Öztürk and the passage of the Dignity Not Deportations Act. As authoritarianism encroaches on our city & across the US, we fight for freedom — not only for ourselves, but for all who are oppressed.
99% of activism doesn't need to be posted on social media. Expecting people to post everything they do as some kind of litmus test isn't just wrong, it's dangerous. People are more than what they post, and you should be, too.
Don’t bother asking if you are doing enough, for enough is a destination that you can never reach, no, don’t bother asking if you are doing enough, ask instead if the something the something you are doing is at least a step towards that destination.
I don’t need to go into space, it’s none of my business. I’m a big Earth guy, I can’t get enough of her work. Daffodils! Are you kidding me? Bison! Miraculous. Sending a slinky down the stairs? Incredible. Mariachi music? Yes, please.
Chapattis for breakfast on Passover is the best. Takes about 15 minutes start to finish. Then you melt some butter, fry an egg, top it with some feta, and grind a little black pepper
BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.
Years ago I stopped following all the loophole rules of Pesach. For me the only rule is No Bread.
Finished this book in one sitting while my son is at bball practice — a masterpiece. Met this author at AWP! He said some smart things at the panel I liked the most: the new American labor poetry.
“they are getting rich directly off the market chaos that’s ruining your retirement and gutting your investments” is the kind of shit that makes people very angry
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · last yr.The insider trading shit is a good angle and I’m glad dems are going with it, because it’s simple enough to be easily comprehensible and just straight up corruption.
