Cambridge/Boston: I'm reading Thursday w/ Laynie Browne & Chloe Garcia Roberts. 5:30 at Harvard. The link has the location and QR code to register. www.hds.harvard.edu/news/public-... Also, here's the beautiful back cover of my new book The Garden. @essaypress.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social

Trump promised the tariffs would help lower grocery bills. Dept. of agriculture has money from tariffs and he is barring them from using that money to fund SNAP. Tell everyone who voted for him (the not-rich ones, the rich ones don't care). Also, ball rooms easily funded. Hungry kids, nah.

Bay Area friends: launch of The Garden Friday w/ these lovely poets. @essaypress.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social 🙏 @hystericalblkns.bsky.social @lisaolstein.bsky.social Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman & @andreabrady.bsky.social for the kindness of blurbing. excited to begin reading from it.

These are the names of the people who have died in US immigration custody over the past year, almost all under 50 yrs. old, some in their 20s. This list does not include those who died running from ICE.

Back cover and mini excerpt from my new book, The Garden, book one of the trilogy Overflow. All thanks to @pamenarpress.bsky.social and @essaypress.bsky.social and to Tony Robbin, the painter of the 4th dimension. Out in September. ❤️🖤

Heads up for Return the Key podcast episode with French writer Leslie Kaplan in which we will discuss Kaplan's participation in and writing about May '68 and Institutional psychotherapy at La Borde clinic and other radical (and necessary to us now) things. Coming next week.

Boulder folks - a bit of precipitation, but the show goes on. Come over to Atlas on the CU Boulder campus at 4pm. We'll be talking about eugenics, walls, and water in the West.

Boulder/ Denver: screening a beautiful film by @carolinaebeid.bsky.social and talking about 20th and 21st C. eugenics in relation to family history at this event on Friday at 4pm on the Boulder campus. Come of you can!

Return the Key: Jewish Questions for everyone w/ writer & Between the Covers host @davidnaimon.bsky.social! We discuss works by Hammad, de Marcken, & Mendelsohn—the ethics of encounter, the stranger w/i the self, the “others” at the heart of Judaism... www.juliecarrpoet.com/return-the-key

I was wondering when the full-throated eugenics plan would be stated (of course it's been there all along). The quiet part out loud. This guy appointed as the State Department’s Senior Official in Public Diplomacy www.newsbreak.com/share/380315...

Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone, episode 16 w/ comp. lit. scholar Na'ama Rokem "Towards the Other: Na'ama Rokem on Hannah Arendt & Paul Celan" We talk about their correspondences and ambivalences abt Zionism & we close read poems. One of my faves. www.juliecarrpoet.com/return-the-key

THANK YOU ALEX MARRERO and Denver Public Schools.

Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone #15: "My Warsaw" w/ Maggie Zurawski. Maggie's great-grandfather survived the Warsaw Uprising, was arrested & taken to a Nazi camp. She reads from her project and we also get into queer avant-gardism Miron Bialoszewki: www.juliecarrpoet.com/return-the-key

This the front page right now. Every headline screams we are in serious trouble. In no way is anything ok.

When I interviewed and wrote about John Eastman in Mud, Blood, and Ghosts, I thought his rereading of the 14th amendment was dangerous, not just absurd, but I was a little embarrassed by how obsessed I was. Not any more.

shameless self-promotion, but you can read all about it here - or just check out my reading list on the website.

Denver area folks: Tuesday: