Josh Fomon
@burrowtongue.bsky.social
Poet, writer, ex-politics, and current creative tech. Author of Our Human Shores (Black Ocean 2025) and Though We Bled Meticulously (Black Ocean 2016).
Pre-order: https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/our-human-shores
Pre-order: https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/our-human-shores
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"Beautiful and grotesque surrealist poetry. Sludgy secrets between sea floor abominations. This is Berg’s best collection since “With Deer”."
This is what someone on Goodreads wrote about Aase Berg's Aase's Death. It's out now from Black Ocean:
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This is what someone on Goodreads wrote about Aase Berg's Aase's Death. It's out now from Black Ocean:
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
Aase's Death by Aase Berg, translated by Johannes Göransson — Black Ocean
One might expect a book by Aase Berg with the title Aase’s Death to be dark, and it is. You may also expect it to be parodic, and maybe it is that too. But if it’s parodic, it’s darkly parodic. A defi...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Beautiful and grotesque surrealist poetry. Sludgy secrets between sea floor abominations. This is Berg’s best collection since “With Deer”."
This is what someone on Goodreads wrote about Aase Berg's Aase's Death. It's out now from Black Ocean:
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
This is what someone on Goodreads wrote about Aase Berg's Aase's Death. It's out now from Black Ocean:
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
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Against this future, we tailor a bespoke love, nooks sewn in calamity.”
D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation.
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D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation.
Read the full review: tinylink.net/6Fcdn
Residuum and Reclamation: On Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon
Our Human Shores (Black Ocean: 2025) is a dense yet lyrical examination of the limits and imperatives of human agency during the anthropocene. The book’s sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled p…
tinylink.net
October 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Against this future, we tailor a bespoke love, nooks sewn in calamity.”
D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation.
Read the full review: tinylink.net/6Fcdn
D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation.
Read the full review: tinylink.net/6Fcdn
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New review up at @variantlit.bsky.social! On OUR HUMAN SHORES by @burrowtongue.bsky.social (@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social), a "sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled poems" which "offers hope in ... human agency, despite the waves of damage now impacting our shared material realities."
Residuum and Reclamation: On Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon
Our Human Shores (Black Ocean: 2025) is a dense yet lyrical examination of the limits and imperatives of human agency during the anthropocene. The book’s sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled p…
variantlit.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
New review up at @variantlit.bsky.social! On OUR HUMAN SHORES by @burrowtongue.bsky.social (@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social), a "sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled poems" which "offers hope in ... human agency, despite the waves of damage now impacting our shared material realities."
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TONIGHT: SDOT will be presenting the results of their Aurora study to a joint meeting of the Seattle Pedestrian and Transit Boards.
Op-Ed: Seattle Is Failing to Reimagine Aurora Avenue » The Urbanist
# SDOT's latest report indicates the agency is envisioning the future of Aurora Avenue N to look nearly exactly the same as it has for the last 100 years: a dangerous, high speed, six- to seven-lane h...
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August 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
TONIGHT: SDOT will be presenting the results of their Aurora study to a joint meeting of the Seattle Pedestrian and Transit Boards.
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Josh Fomon, Our Human Shores / @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social ;
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Josh Fomon, Our Human Shores
Absence makes of me a skeletal transmission. A future silence hummed into the ether. In a fog of salt, the marsh blesses the morning. Refl...
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August 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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“Heresies are dreamy, to me. They nudge us to think, to imagine, to forsake the given scripts and safety associated with conforming to received beliefs and conventions.”
@civitaveritas.bsky.social interviews @alinaetc.bsky.social about My Heresies (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social).
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@civitaveritas.bsky.social interviews @alinaetc.bsky.social about My Heresies (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/qCPYFBV
July 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“Heresies are dreamy, to me. They nudge us to think, to imagine, to forsake the given scripts and safety associated with conforming to received beliefs and conventions.”
@civitaveritas.bsky.social interviews @alinaetc.bsky.social about My Heresies (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/qCPYFBV
@civitaveritas.bsky.social interviews @alinaetc.bsky.social about My Heresies (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/qCPYFBV
My #poetry book is now available for preorder from @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social! Check out my book Our Human Shores, which explores living in these trying times, existentialism, and the #ecopoetics of our world through a lyric exploration.
June 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
My #poetry book is now available for preorder from @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social! Check out my book Our Human Shores, which explores living in these trying times, existentialism, and the #ecopoetics of our world through a lyric exploration.
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i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was not necessary
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June 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82
Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82
Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his family. Stone was 82 years old.
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June 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82
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Keep up the fight!
June 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Keep up the fight!
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🎀 UK/Ireland Cover Reveal and Preorder Link
Judas Goat (the87press edition) coming Oct 24, 2025
Judas Goat (the87press edition) coming Oct 24, 2025
June 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
🎀 UK/Ireland Cover Reveal and Preorder Link
Judas Goat (the87press edition) coming Oct 24, 2025
Judas Goat (the87press edition) coming Oct 24, 2025
My second book, Our Human Shores, will be out from @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social in July! Very stoked to share this book and its incredible cover. This book clocks in at 184 pages and has poems from 2017-2022 and I think you’ll find something in it you’ll love.
June 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My second book, Our Human Shores, will be out from @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social in July! Very stoked to share this book and its incredible cover. This book clocks in at 184 pages and has poems from 2017-2022 and I think you’ll find something in it you’ll love.
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Don't miss Black Ocean's own Tessa Bolsover, Spencer Lee-Lenfield, and James Shea with an introduction by Janaka Stucky in person at Grolier Poetry Book Shop or via Zoom on June 25 at 7 PM ET. Sign up here: buff.ly/JHsaA9C
June 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Don't miss Black Ocean's own Tessa Bolsover, Spencer Lee-Lenfield, and James Shea with an introduction by Janaka Stucky in person at Grolier Poetry Book Shop or via Zoom on June 25 at 7 PM ET. Sign up here: buff.ly/JHsaA9C
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Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February.
He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."
He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."
May 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February.
He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."
He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."
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I've had actual arguments with people about "Separating art from the artist." There's no separating this. Like Idk what to tell you, but trans people should be more important to you than like dobby the elf or whatever
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
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May 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I've had actual arguments with people about "Separating art from the artist." There's no separating this. Like Idk what to tell you, but trans people should be more important to you than like dobby the elf or whatever
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"The author's compensation is his copyright, & it cannot be limited to money or fame or tenure. It must consist of independence, the freedom to write as one believes, & to find people to communicate with. A bad copyright law can destroy that independence; a good one can help to preserve it."
May 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"The author's compensation is his copyright, & it cannot be limited to money or fame or tenure. It must consist of independence, the freedom to write as one believes, & to find people to communicate with. A bad copyright law can destroy that independence; a good one can help to preserve it."
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Ringer, 50 years before DOGE & AI slop: "...the combination of tyranny and technocracy could destroy not only freedom of expression and the quality of life but human culture itself."
May 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Ringer, 50 years before DOGE & AI slop: "...the combination of tyranny and technocracy could destroy not only freedom of expression and the quality of life but human culture itself."
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Barbara Ringer, LOC Register of Copyrights, to an audience of writers & publishers in 1975:
"If the users of the new communications technologies insist on using authors' works without giving some appropriate compensation in return, they will find that sooner or later there will be no authors..."
"If the users of the new communications technologies insist on using authors' works without giving some appropriate compensation in return, they will find that sooner or later there will be no authors..."
“President Donald Trump continued a firing spree at the Library of Congress on Saturday when he dismissed the top copyright official in the nation” bit.ly/43amMei
Trump fires top U.S. copyright official
Democrats are alleging foul play.
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May 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Barbara Ringer, LOC Register of Copyrights, to an audience of writers & publishers in 1975:
"If the users of the new communications technologies insist on using authors' works without giving some appropriate compensation in return, they will find that sooner or later there will be no authors..."
"If the users of the new communications technologies insist on using authors' works without giving some appropriate compensation in return, they will find that sooner or later there will be no authors..."
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To thine own self be truant
May 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
To thine own self be truant
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Delighted to be a part of this mayhem💜🌺 Yes, that's TERRY DACTYL in the middle, out on magical November 11, oh my👠💥💫
Introducing our Fall 2025 season replete with iconic poets, Nobel Prize-winning translators, and our first book in French!
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April 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Delighted to be a part of this mayhem💜🌺 Yes, that's TERRY DACTYL in the middle, out on magical November 11, oh my👠💥💫
Excited to see you at this and read some new and old poems!!!
Tomorrow! We're bringing you another amazing night with this #AWP25 off-site reading featuring our authors and poets from some of our favorite publishers. The Kulta from 6-10 PM!
March 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Excited to see you at this and read some new and old poems!!!
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Tomorrow! We're bringing you another amazing night with this #AWP25 off-site reading featuring our authors and poets from some of our favorite publishers. The Kulta from 6-10 PM!
March 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Tomorrow! We're bringing you another amazing night with this #AWP25 off-site reading featuring our authors and poets from some of our favorite publishers. The Kulta from 6-10 PM!
