Jose Padua
@josefpadua.bsky.social
Writer, poet, author of A Short History of Monsters, winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. https://linktr.ee/josepaduawriter
I was never more weirded out by someone than that time I was in the Trover Shop on Capitol Hill and ran into one of my coworkers from the Library of Congress who was buying a book called Dress for Success.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I was never more weirded out by someone than that time I was in the Trover Shop on Capitol Hill and ran into one of my coworkers from the Library of Congress who was buying a book called Dress for Success.
A poem for today....
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A poem for today....
Let your every utterance, be it of love or contempt, be an act of defiance against a regime that can only express the trite chasm of its malodorous nether hole.
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Let your every utterance, be it of love or contempt, be an act of defiance against a regime that can only express the trite chasm of its malodorous nether hole.
"Revolution begins when you are able to see right through the spectacle, which isn't to say that time spent rehearsing isn't time well spent. It's just that you need to know the difference between rehearsal and revolution." Reading at Nov 2, 2pm at Roaming Roast in York, PA.
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
"Revolution begins when you are able to see right through the spectacle, which isn't to say that time spent rehearsing isn't time well spent. It's just that you need to know the difference between rehearsal and revolution." Reading at Nov 2, 2pm at Roaming Roast in York, PA.
Antifa lyeth between the Christian nationalist bride and her hedge fund managing bridegroom CONTRA MIKE JOHNSON.
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Antifa lyeth between the Christian nationalist bride and her hedge fund managing bridegroom CONTRA MIKE JOHNSON.
When the population is lulled to sleep by a media that acts as a massive pacifier for corporate interests, any attempt to sever the political from the artistic realm should be considered an act of violence.
October 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
When the population is lulled to sleep by a media that acts as a massive pacifier for corporate interests, any attempt to sever the political from the artistic realm should be considered an act of violence.
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Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson calls for a general strike, at least 300,000 people attended the protest. #3E #NoKings #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #EpsteinFiles
October 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson calls for a general strike, at least 300,000 people attended the protest. #3E #NoKings #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #EpsteinFiles
THE NIGHT JIMI HENDRIX DIED
My poem on Jimi Hendrix is up at the Mixtape Review (thanks to the crew there!) where you can read the poem while listening to “Purple Haze.” I took the photo earlier this week of what I believe is called The Moon That Cannot Be Named.
bit.ly/3KHf4md
My poem on Jimi Hendrix is up at the Mixtape Review (thanks to the crew there!) where you can read the poem while listening to “Purple Haze.” I took the photo earlier this week of what I believe is called The Moon That Cannot Be Named.
bit.ly/3KHf4md
October 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
THE NIGHT JIMI HENDRIX DIED
My poem on Jimi Hendrix is up at the Mixtape Review (thanks to the crew there!) where you can read the poem while listening to “Purple Haze.” I took the photo earlier this week of what I believe is called The Moon That Cannot Be Named.
bit.ly/3KHf4md
My poem on Jimi Hendrix is up at the Mixtape Review (thanks to the crew there!) where you can read the poem while listening to “Purple Haze.” I took the photo earlier this week of what I believe is called The Moon That Cannot Be Named.
bit.ly/3KHf4md
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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MAGAs have the incredible ability to take even the greatest extravagance and excess and turn it into something incredibly shallow and dull. Indeed, they think they're so interesting even though they're the most boring people on earth.
October 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
MAGAs have the incredible ability to take even the greatest extravagance and excess and turn it into something incredibly shallow and dull. Indeed, they think they're so interesting even though they're the most boring people on earth.
The point of cruelty is to hide one's stupidity: one doesn't need to understand what one destroys horribly. Just look at the stupidity of the current regime.
October 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The point of cruelty is to hide one's stupidity: one doesn't need to understand what one destroys horribly. Just look at the stupidity of the current regime.
In these days of certain madness and uncertain escape, here’s to getting away—getting away from it, with it, in spite of it. And, sometimes, just staying and fighting it. My poem is at Vox Populi today (thanks, Michael Simms!) wp.me/p4xqzG-qBP
Jose Padua: Driving Out of Town on the Day Before What Would Have Been My Mother’s 93rd Birthday
she would have loved the blue and yellow tones of this early evening Pennsylvania sky as busy as a symphony over the landscape of this small town so far from Asia
wp.me
September 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
In these days of certain madness and uncertain escape, here’s to getting away—getting away from it, with it, in spite of it. And, sometimes, just staying and fighting it. My poem is at Vox Populi today (thanks, Michael Simms!) wp.me/p4xqzG-qBP
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What started as a trip to hear two #poet friends read, ended up encompassing so much more - but oh the joy in hearing @josefpadua.bsky.social & Heather Davis read in-person! Great space. Great host. Great night. Standing room only!
heatherlynnedavis.com/poetry/
josepadua.com
#poetry
heatherlynnedavis.com/poetry/
josepadua.com
#poetry
September 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
What started as a trip to hear two #poet friends read, ended up encompassing so much more - but oh the joy in hearing @josefpadua.bsky.social & Heather Davis read in-person! Great space. Great host. Great night. Standing room only!
heatherlynnedavis.com/poetry/
josepadua.com
#poetry
heatherlynnedavis.com/poetry/
josepadua.com
#poetry
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In Lancaster, tonight! Two, not one-but TWO awesome poets! @josefpadua.bsky.social
I’ll be in attendance & would love to see you there!! (And what a great place for a reading!)
I’ll be in attendance & would love to see you there!! (And what a great place for a reading!)
September 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
In Lancaster, tonight! Two, not one-but TWO awesome poets! @josefpadua.bsky.social
I’ll be in attendance & would love to see you there!! (And what a great place for a reading!)
I’ll be in attendance & would love to see you there!! (And what a great place for a reading!)
POETRY READING with Heather Davis and Jose Padua
This Thursday September 18 at 7pm, Heather and I are reading for the Turning Wheel series at the Fescue Gallery, 140 N. Prince St. in Lancaster. There will be an open mic afterwards.
This Thursday September 18 at 7pm, Heather and I are reading for the Turning Wheel series at the Fescue Gallery, 140 N. Prince St. in Lancaster. There will be an open mic afterwards.
September 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
POETRY READING with Heather Davis and Jose Padua
This Thursday September 18 at 7pm, Heather and I are reading for the Turning Wheel series at the Fescue Gallery, 140 N. Prince St. in Lancaster. There will be an open mic afterwards.
This Thursday September 18 at 7pm, Heather and I are reading for the Turning Wheel series at the Fescue Gallery, 140 N. Prince St. in Lancaster. There will be an open mic afterwards.
The struggle to be real is slowly losing its traditional grammar. A new language will have to emerge if we are to have any chance at survival.
September 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The struggle to be real is slowly losing its traditional grammar. A new language will have to emerge if we are to have any chance at survival.
I have a poem up at Vox Populi today. Thanks, Michael Simms!
wp.me/p4xqzG-qBF
wp.me/p4xqzG-qBF
Jose Padua: The Summer of Rock and Other Fragile Ecstasies
But it was also another summer of war, the way just about every summer is a summer of war.
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September 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I have a poem up at Vox Populi today. Thanks, Michael Simms!
wp.me/p4xqzG-qBF
wp.me/p4xqzG-qBF
Next week, September 18, Heather and I will be reading for the Turning Wheel series. 7pm at the Fescue Gallery, 140 N. Prince ST, Lancaster, PA.
September 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Next week, September 18, Heather and I will be reading for the Turning Wheel series. 7pm at the Fescue Gallery, 140 N. Prince ST, Lancaster, PA.
At this point, as a poet, I'm not speaking truth to power, I am simply trying to get revenge.
August 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
At this point, as a poet, I'm not speaking truth to power, I am simply trying to get revenge.
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Arrested for filming it. And look how excited they all are to get some *action*.
🇺🇸 Watch fascism work.
🇺🇸 Watch fascism work.
August 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Arrested for filming it. And look how excited they all are to get some *action*.
🇺🇸 Watch fascism work.
🇺🇸 Watch fascism work.
I avoid those who have no empathy, but I flee from those who have no sense of irony because they're the ones more likely to be sociopaths.
August 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I avoid those who have no empathy, but I flee from those who have no sense of irony because they're the ones more likely to be sociopaths.
In contemporary society, most of the tools necessary for any sort of pragmatic approach to learning and problem solving have been corrupted, thus paving the way for the large scale smash and grab thievery being practiced by the current regime.
August 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In contemporary society, most of the tools necessary for any sort of pragmatic approach to learning and problem solving have been corrupted, thus paving the way for the large scale smash and grab thievery being practiced by the current regime.