Jessica E. Johnson
@jessejohnson.bsky.social
Poetry and nonfiction / art and communit(ies) / plants, animals, kids /community college / co-host Constellation Reading Series / she/they
In Absolutes We Seek Each Other (Diagram ‘14)
Metabolics (Acre Books ‘23)
Mettlework (Acre Books ‘24)
In Absolutes We Seek Each Other (Diagram ‘14)
Metabolics (Acre Books ‘23)
Mettlework (Acre Books ‘24)
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LOL. Guys. We don’t register to protest. We just show up.
Nearly three million Americans donated to Kamala Harris on ActBlue last year. That statement of public support is the perfect antidote to autocratic oppression. You should definitely sign up for a No Kings protest on October 18, and invite your family and friends to carpool with you. nokings.org
September 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
LOL. Guys. We don’t register to protest. We just show up.
This era and its malevolent higher ed consultancies…
#backtoschool
#backtoschool
September 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This era and its malevolent higher ed consultancies…
#backtoschool
#backtoschool
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Flashback Friday! Why not finish the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social with @jessejohnson.bsky.social's METABOLICS, a 2024 Oregon Book Award Finalist and
California Review of Books Outstanding #Poetry Book? For more on this innovative debut, visit press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🎉🎉🎉
California Review of Books Outstanding #Poetry Book? For more on this innovative debut, visit press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🎉🎉🎉
Metabolics
In this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navigating identities, impulses, and relationships that are often...
press.uchicago.edu
August 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Flashback Friday! Why not finish the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social with @jessejohnson.bsky.social's METABOLICS, a 2024 Oregon Book Award Finalist and
California Review of Books Outstanding #Poetry Book? For more on this innovative debut, visit press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🎉🎉🎉
California Review of Books Outstanding #Poetry Book? For more on this innovative debut, visit press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🎉🎉🎉
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There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
August 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
The best author photos are when the author is holding or sitting beside an animal they love.
July 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The best author photos are when the author is holding or sitting beside an animal they love.
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"Just as I long for poems that carry the wisdom and surprise of my friends’ verbal play, I hope for novels that are absorbing, like a long conversation with a friend. . ."
In our Family Secrets Folio, @jessejohnson.bsky.social reviews Morgan Talty's FIRE EXIT.
In our Family Secrets Folio, @jessejohnson.bsky.social reviews Morgan Talty's FIRE EXIT.
June 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Just as I long for poems that carry the wisdom and surprise of my friends’ verbal play, I hope for novels that are absorbing, like a long conversation with a friend. . ."
In our Family Secrets Folio, @jessejohnson.bsky.social reviews Morgan Talty's FIRE EXIT.
In our Family Secrets Folio, @jessejohnson.bsky.social reviews Morgan Talty's FIRE EXIT.
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Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California?
truthout.org/articles/ice...
truthout.org/articles/ice...
ICE Arrests David Huerta, Beloved Labor Leader and SEIU California President
“We all collectively have to object to this madness,” said Huerta after his violent arrest for witnessing an ICE raid.
truthout.org
June 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California?
truthout.org/articles/ice...
truthout.org/articles/ice...
I have few regrets, but one is that I didn’t read Alice Notley sooner. I think my life would have been different, and better.
May 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I have few regrets, but one is that I didn’t read Alice Notley sooner. I think my life would have been different, and better.
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"...the depth and extent of the exclusion of women poets from previous literature was an unfathomable void that no man was ever going to be capable of understanding. The suppression of women from poetry was an incomparable loss, a tragedy for me and everyone else."
Alice Notley
Alice Notley
March 8, 2024 at 10:42 PM
"...the depth and extent of the exclusion of women poets from previous literature was an unfathomable void that no man was ever going to be capable of understanding. The suppression of women from poetry was an incomparable loss, a tragedy for me and everyone else."
Alice Notley
Alice Notley
I’m reading tomorrow night for Pendleton’s First Draft series (virtual). 5/15 7:00 Pacific
Zoom link at the link.
pendletonarts.org/first-draft/
Zoom link at the link.
pendletonarts.org/first-draft/
FIrst Draft Writers' Series | Pendleton Center for the Arts
Catch a great author the third Thursday of each month. You can even sign up for the Open Mic, immediately following our featured writer.
pendletonarts.org
May 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I’m reading tomorrow night for Pendleton’s First Draft series (virtual). 5/15 7:00 Pacific
Zoom link at the link.
pendletonarts.org/first-draft/
Zoom link at the link.
pendletonarts.org/first-draft/
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Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.
May 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.
I was happy to review a great novel in this folio. Thanks @lisaampleman.bsky.social for the opportunity. I am loving @jscheng.bsky.social ‘s craft essay here and looking forward to reading the others.
Every family has them.
Issue 22.1's accompanying folio is all about FAMILY SECRETS, featuring work by @jscheng.bsky.social , Sadia Hassan, @jessejohnson.bsky.social , @sharalessley.bsky.social and @thejs3.bsky.social .
Issue 22.1's accompanying folio is all about FAMILY SECRETS, featuring work by @jscheng.bsky.social , Sadia Hassan, @jessejohnson.bsky.social , @sharalessley.bsky.social and @thejs3.bsky.social .
Folio: Family Secrets
In this folio to accompany issue 21.2, five writers explore the craft of writing about sex.
buff.ly
May 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I was happy to review a great novel in this folio. Thanks @lisaampleman.bsky.social for the opportunity. I am loving @jscheng.bsky.social ‘s craft essay here and looking forward to reading the others.
Grateful to be usually one good nap away from feeling pretty good
May 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Grateful to be usually one good nap away from feeling pretty good
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just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful
Bessent says that little girls who are sad about having fewer dolls should just have it explained to them that they will have a better life for it
May 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful
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Overhead of the May Day march in Chicago. Thousands and thousands. I've heard (but can't confirm) anywhere between 10-50k. In any case it's huge.
May 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Overhead of the May Day march in Chicago. Thousands and thousands. I've heard (but can't confirm) anywhere between 10-50k. In any case it's huge.
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Hear me out. No more interviews of the weird pronatalist couple.
Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that.
A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.
Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that.
A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.
April 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Hear me out. No more interviews of the weird pronatalist couple.
Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that.
A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.
Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that.
A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.
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It's Chapbook Day! Our Open Prose Chapbook Period is open for submissions now through 6/1!
We're looking for your fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and other surprising prose chapbooks (btwn 60-100pg, with a little flex in both directions) from April 1 through June 1.
splitlippress.submittable.com
We're looking for your fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and other surprising prose chapbooks (btwn 60-100pg, with a little flex in both directions) from April 1 through June 1.
splitlippress.submittable.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It's Chapbook Day! Our Open Prose Chapbook Period is open for submissions now through 6/1!
We're looking for your fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and other surprising prose chapbooks (btwn 60-100pg, with a little flex in both directions) from April 1 through June 1.
splitlippress.submittable.com
We're looking for your fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and other surprising prose chapbooks (btwn 60-100pg, with a little flex in both directions) from April 1 through June 1.
splitlippress.submittable.com
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This Friday! Celebrate National #Poetry Month in #Portland with a terrific lineup of readers, including Acre author @jessejohnson.bsky.social (METABOLICS). Details below! 📚🎉
Portland, come hear poetry at Bishop & Wilde this Friday, 4/4 @7pm. Celebrate Sarah's @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social debut COSMIC TANTRUM with me, Ellee Achten, @jessejohnson.bsky.social and @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social
#pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth
#pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth
April 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This Friday! Celebrate National #Poetry Month in #Portland with a terrific lineup of readers, including Acre author @jessejohnson.bsky.social (METABOLICS). Details below! 📚🎉
I’m looking forward to supporting Sarah’s launch and reading some new work!!!
Portland, come hear poetry at Bishop & Wilde this Friday, 4/4 @7pm. Celebrate Sarah's @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social debut COSMIC TANTRUM with me, Ellee Achten, @jessejohnson.bsky.social and @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social
#pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth
#pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth
April 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I’m looking forward to supporting Sarah’s launch and reading some new work!!!
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Portland, come hear poetry at Bishop & Wilde this Friday, 4/4 @7pm. Celebrate Sarah's @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social debut COSMIC TANTRUM with me, Ellee Achten, @jessejohnson.bsky.social and @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social
#pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth
#pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth
April 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Portland, come hear poetry at Bishop & Wilde this Friday, 4/4 @7pm. Celebrate Sarah's @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social debut COSMIC TANTRUM with me, Ellee Achten, @jessejohnson.bsky.social and @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social
#pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth
#pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth
If I post my AWP haul you’re going to know the severity of my book buying ways and it’s embarrassing AF
April 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
If I post my AWP haul you’re going to know the severity of my book buying ways and it’s embarrassing AF
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Acre authors in action! @jessejohnson.bsky.social (METABOLICS, METTLEWORK) talking all things cnf! Order her #memoir at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo..., or stop by Booth 307! 🎉🎉🎉
March 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Acre authors in action! @jessejohnson.bsky.social (METABOLICS, METTLEWORK) talking all things cnf! Order her #memoir at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo..., or stop by Booth 307! 🎉🎉🎉
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Reality Winner wept
Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed.
That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.
I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.
I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
March 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Reality Winner wept