Joy A. Garnett
@joyamina.bsky.social
NYer in LA.
Writer, Yaddo fellow.
Anonymous Was A Woman awardee.
Art Director: Evergreen Review.; SUSPECT journal
The Bee Kingdom (forthcoming) Longlisted for the 2024 First Pages Prize in Creative Nonfiction 👇🏼
https://linktr.ee/joygarnett
Writer, Yaddo fellow.
Anonymous Was A Woman awardee.
Art Director: Evergreen Review.; SUSPECT journal
The Bee Kingdom (forthcoming) Longlisted for the 2024 First Pages Prize in Creative Nonfiction 👇🏼
https://linktr.ee/joygarnett
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“When I was a New York City kid living on 151st Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive, many jazz musicians lived in that Sugar Hill (Harlem) neighborhood . . . .”
Up now: “From the Soul: On the Life & Music of Jesse Powell” by @magonzales.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...
Up now: “From the Soul: On the Life & Music of Jesse Powell” by @magonzales.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...
From the Soul: On the Life & Music of Jesse Powell
Evergreen Review
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November 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
“When I was a New York City kid living on 151st Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive, many jazz musicians lived in that Sugar Hill (Harlem) neighborhood . . . .”
Up now: “From the Soul: On the Life & Music of Jesse Powell” by @magonzales.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...
Up now: “From the Soul: On the Life & Music of Jesse Powell” by @magonzales.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...
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“The silver trailer full of live bulls
cramped darkly together being trafficked
now pulls to the right of this Highlander . . .”
New at Evergreen: “Mother Nature Doesn’t Care If You’re Ignorant” and one more poem by Jerome Ellison Murphy. Art by S Emsaki. evergreenreview.com/read/mother-...
cramped darkly together being trafficked
now pulls to the right of this Highlander . . .”
New at Evergreen: “Mother Nature Doesn’t Care If You’re Ignorant” and one more poem by Jerome Ellison Murphy. Art by S Emsaki. evergreenreview.com/read/mother-...
Mother Nature Doesn’t Care If You’re Ignorant
Evergreen Review
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November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“The silver trailer full of live bulls
cramped darkly together being trafficked
now pulls to the right of this Highlander . . .”
New at Evergreen: “Mother Nature Doesn’t Care If You’re Ignorant” and one more poem by Jerome Ellison Murphy. Art by S Emsaki. evergreenreview.com/read/mother-...
cramped darkly together being trafficked
now pulls to the right of this Highlander . . .”
New at Evergreen: “Mother Nature Doesn’t Care If You’re Ignorant” and one more poem by Jerome Ellison Murphy. Art by S Emsaki. evergreenreview.com/read/mother-...
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"They were careless people, . . . they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"They were careless people, . . . they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
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“I’m guessing that if you held a map of the world up to the comics attending the Riyadh festival, less than ten would be able to find Saudi Arabia . . . .”
Up now at Evergreen: “Riyadh-a Yadda Yadda” by @jayemcb.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/riyadh-...
Up now at Evergreen: “Riyadh-a Yadda Yadda” by @jayemcb.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/riyadh-...
Riyadh-a Yadda Yadda
Evergreen Review
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November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“I’m guessing that if you held a map of the world up to the comics attending the Riyadh festival, less than ten would be able to find Saudi Arabia . . . .”
Up now at Evergreen: “Riyadh-a Yadda Yadda” by @jayemcb.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/riyadh-...
Up now at Evergreen: “Riyadh-a Yadda Yadda” by @jayemcb.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/riyadh-...
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UPCOMING NYC EVENT ALERT! Sunday, November 9
“Body Language”, a one-act play by Evergreen's EIC @dalepeck.bsky.social & directed by Carson Parish, is about the life and afterlife of Linus Herrell, a gay activist, artist, and porn shop owner from Cleveland . . . More info at the link!
“Body Language”, a one-act play by Evergreen's EIC @dalepeck.bsky.social & directed by Carson Parish, is about the life and afterlife of Linus Herrell, a gay activist, artist, and porn shop owner from Cleveland . . . More info at the link!
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“Body Language”, a new one-act play by Dale Peck, is about the life and afterlife of Linus Herrell (played by the luminous and licentious Jonah Wheeler), a gay activist, artist, and porn shop owner fr...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
UPCOMING NYC EVENT ALERT! Sunday, November 9
“Body Language”, a one-act play by Evergreen's EIC @dalepeck.bsky.social & directed by Carson Parish, is about the life and afterlife of Linus Herrell, a gay activist, artist, and porn shop owner from Cleveland . . . More info at the link!
“Body Language”, a one-act play by Evergreen's EIC @dalepeck.bsky.social & directed by Carson Parish, is about the life and afterlife of Linus Herrell, a gay activist, artist, and porn shop owner from Cleveland . . . More info at the link!
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When I was writing my @evergreenreview.bsky.social essay on saxophonist Jesse Powell, I thought about the jazz comics of artist Howard Chaykin. Indeed, the artist has inspired my jazz leanings for years and I wanted the story to be literary homage to Chaykin's work. evergreenreview.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
When I was writing my @evergreenreview.bsky.social essay on saxophonist Jesse Powell, I thought about the jazz comics of artist Howard Chaykin. Indeed, the artist has inspired my jazz leanings for years and I wanted the story to be literary homage to Chaykin's work. evergreenreview.com
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Coming up in Harlem in the 1970s Jesse Powell owned a candy store. Decades later I learned that he was also a respected saxophonist who once played with Count Basie & Dizzy Gillespie. My story on Powell was published at @evergreenreview.bsky.social
@beatgrrrl.bsky.social @jazzreads.bsky.social
@beatgrrrl.bsky.social @jazzreads.bsky.social
I've said this before, but no one mixes pop culture and the personal as well as my friend @magonzales.bsky.social
evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...
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From the Soul: On the Life & Music of Jesse Powell
Evergreen Review
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October 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Coming up in Harlem in the 1970s Jesse Powell owned a candy store. Decades later I learned that he was also a respected saxophonist who once played with Count Basie & Dizzy Gillespie. My story on Powell was published at @evergreenreview.bsky.social
@beatgrrrl.bsky.social @jazzreads.bsky.social
@beatgrrrl.bsky.social @jazzreads.bsky.social
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“Love is forbearing and requires constant revival. Each day, I choose to father my father, even when it feels too difficult for me. Every moment with him alive is a blessing.”
New at Evergreen: “Afụnwaelotanna” by @chinonsonzeh.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/afunwae...
New at Evergreen: “Afụnwaelotanna” by @chinonsonzeh.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/afunwae...
Afụnwaelotanna
Evergreen Review
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October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“Love is forbearing and requires constant revival. Each day, I choose to father my father, even when it feels too difficult for me. Every moment with him alive is a blessing.”
New at Evergreen: “Afụnwaelotanna” by @chinonsonzeh.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/afunwae...
New at Evergreen: “Afụnwaelotanna” by @chinonsonzeh.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/afunwae...
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Without a doubt the most breathtaking and awe-inspiring imagery you’ve ever seen inside the eye of a hurricane
(Video from TEAL76, a USAF Reserve Hurricane Hunter crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, during a pass through Hurricane Melissa)
(Video from TEAL76, a USAF Reserve Hurricane Hunter crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, during a pass through Hurricane Melissa)
1547Z pass through Hurricane Melissa on 27 October
YouTube video by Flynonymous WX
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October 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Without a doubt the most breathtaking and awe-inspiring imagery you’ve ever seen inside the eye of a hurricane
(Video from TEAL76, a USAF Reserve Hurricane Hunter crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, during a pass through Hurricane Melissa)
(Video from TEAL76, a USAF Reserve Hurricane Hunter crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, during a pass through Hurricane Melissa)
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“My ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ character was a fat, short, slutty, transmasculine lightfoot halfling bard named Apple (no relation to Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter).”
Up now in Evergreen’s DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Bad Apple” by @natmesnard.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...
Up now in Evergreen’s DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Bad Apple” by @natmesnard.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...
[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] Bad Apple
Evergreen Review
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October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“My ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ character was a fat, short, slutty, transmasculine lightfoot halfling bard named Apple (no relation to Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter).”
Up now in Evergreen’s DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Bad Apple” by @natmesnard.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...
Up now in Evergreen’s DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Bad Apple” by @natmesnard.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...
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Very grateful to @evergreenreview.bsky.social for taking these. People should know about Mondale (and about my favorite modern Spanish poet). Potentially attn @dfl.org too?
“Maybe it’s good you never got to see
what our generation did: loss most of the way,
ambulances in reverse on rickety bridges . . .”
Up now at Evergreen: “At the Grave of Walter Mondale” and two more poems by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Art by Betsy Weis. evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...
what our generation did: loss most of the way,
ambulances in reverse on rickety bridges . . .”
Up now at Evergreen: “At the Grave of Walter Mondale” and two more poems by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Art by Betsy Weis. evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...
At the Grave of Walter Mondale and Other Poems
Evergreen Review
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October 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Very grateful to @evergreenreview.bsky.social for taking these. People should know about Mondale (and about my favorite modern Spanish poet). Potentially attn @dfl.org too?
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After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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“Maybe it’s good you never got to see
what our generation did: loss most of the way,
ambulances in reverse on rickety bridges . . .”
Up now at Evergreen: “At the Grave of Walter Mondale” and two more poems by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Art by Betsy Weis. evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...
what our generation did: loss most of the way,
ambulances in reverse on rickety bridges . . .”
Up now at Evergreen: “At the Grave of Walter Mondale” and two more poems by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Art by Betsy Weis. evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...
At the Grave of Walter Mondale and Other Poems
Evergreen Review
evergreenreview.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“Maybe it’s good you never got to see
what our generation did: loss most of the way,
ambulances in reverse on rickety bridges . . .”
Up now at Evergreen: “At the Grave of Walter Mondale” and two more poems by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Art by Betsy Weis. evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...
what our generation did: loss most of the way,
ambulances in reverse on rickety bridges . . .”
Up now at Evergreen: “At the Grave of Walter Mondale” and two more poems by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Art by Betsy Weis. evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...
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New essay up on @evergreenreview.bsky.social where I talk about my hot Baldur's Gate 3 character, POV in video games & the indie game dev work I've been doing as part of @unquietgames.bsky.social: evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...
[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] Bad Apple
Evergreen Review
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October 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New essay up on @evergreenreview.bsky.social where I talk about my hot Baldur's Gate 3 character, POV in video games & the indie game dev work I've been doing as part of @unquietgames.bsky.social: evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...
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Streaming live now!: check out “Last Call – DemocracyICED,” Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese (LigoranoReese)'s installation of a 3,000-pound ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” that will slowly melt away throughout the day today on the National Mall.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Streaming live now!: check out “Last Call – DemocracyICED,” Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese (LigoranoReese)'s installation of a 3,000-pound ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” that will slowly melt away throughout the day today on the National Mall.
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“Lagos is a hard place. Our brothers, uncles, or cousins keep promising to set us up as soon as they can. But we know better. We know that they never wanted us here in the first place.”
Up now: “Arewa Boys” by Hussani Abdulrahim. Art by jc lenochan. evergreenreview.com/read/arewa-b...
Up now: “Arewa Boys” by Hussani Abdulrahim. Art by jc lenochan. evergreenreview.com/read/arewa-b...
Arewa Boys
Evergreen Review
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October 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“Lagos is a hard place. Our brothers, uncles, or cousins keep promising to set us up as soon as they can. But we know better. We know that they never wanted us here in the first place.”
Up now: “Arewa Boys” by Hussani Abdulrahim. Art by jc lenochan. evergreenreview.com/read/arewa-b...
Up now: “Arewa Boys” by Hussani Abdulrahim. Art by jc lenochan. evergreenreview.com/read/arewa-b...
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I've got some new poems @evergreenreview.bsky.social (read the whole new issue, it's lovely) evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...
At the Grave of Walter Mondale and Other Poems
Evergreen Review
evergreenreview.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I've got some new poems @evergreenreview.bsky.social (read the whole new issue, it's lovely) evergreenreview.com/read/at-the-...
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LOL and now Taylor Lorenz is defending millionaire Twitch streamer. She's even adopted the stupid "Democrat" (instead of the appropriate "Democrats" or "Democratic") tic adored by right wingers
October 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
LOL and now Taylor Lorenz is defending millionaire Twitch streamer. She's even adopted the stupid "Democrat" (instead of the appropriate "Democrats" or "Democratic") tic adored by right wingers
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Katie Porter, we hardly knew ye but holy fuck
October 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Katie Porter, we hardly knew ye but holy fuck
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Yeah I think Katie Porter is done.
October 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Yeah I think Katie Porter is done.