Josette Akresh-Gonzales
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Josette Akresh-Gonzales
@vivakresh.bsky.social
author of Apocalypse on the Linoleum (Lily). Poems in Southern Review, Indianapolis Review, Atticus, JAMA, and many other journals, as well as the anthologies Choice Words (Haymarket) and Breaking the Glass (Laurel).

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Got plans for May Day yet? Come to Square Root for some poetry
April 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Also herons
April 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
April 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
6 pm! Today! Boston! @ifnotnowmovement.org
April 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Chapattis for breakfast on Passover is the best. Takes about 15 minutes start to finish. Then you melt some butter, fry an egg, top it with some feta, and grind a little black pepper
April 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Heavenly (pesedik) chocolate cake — as promised! @smittenkitchen.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Finished this book in one sitting while my son is at bball practice — a masterpiece. Met this author at AWP! He said some smart things at the panel I liked the most: the new American labor poetry.
April 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Reading this book (“Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza— a reckoning,” by Peter Beinart) is like reading my own brain set down in type, but more organized and articulate. Hope you have this in your to-read list, Jewish friends.
April 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Boston area folks: come to our @yetzirahpoets.bsky.social salon featuring Jo Radner and Steve Rapp on April 27! Rsvp for address at: tinyurl.com/bostonyetzir...
April 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is what I picture when you talk about how useful AI is
March 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Excellent reading, @mehpoeting.bsky.social ! Truly inspiring and somehow yet lighthearted, your poems are always worth leaving my couch for!
March 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
He says thanc yu
March 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“Who if I cried out, would see the me in the metadata?”
holy shot
Joanna Fuhrman!
@joannafuhrman.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“you tried lining up all of your favorite words in a row”
wow
Joanna Fuhrman
@joannafuhrman.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Smart, funny, and surreal poets Joanna Fuhrman and Caroline Hagood warmed up the room with a projected scene from Back to the Future, read incredible poems, & talked about how writing allows us to build a time machine and bring back the dead (but not really! We understand)!
February 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Really enjoying this novel so far! Kantika, by Elizabeth Graver, is about a Jewish family in Turkey in the early 1900s. The author is giving a talk at my synagogue in a few weeks. My dad’s side has the same background, so it’s interesting to me, but the story and writing are good too.
February 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
As both an editor and a writer, I really enjoyed reading this!
February 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In honor of Tu B’shvat (Jewish holiday of the trees), here’s a poem by me, “The Tree Line” (published in A Gathering of the Tribes)
February 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This reading was fire!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The Grolier Poetry Book Shop Presents in Partnership with the Woodberry Poetry Room:
Tatiana Johnson-Boria, Saeed Jones and Porsha Olayiwola

with an introduction by Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah
February 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Tu b’shevat (Jewish celebration of trees) starts tonight so here’s an amazing tree poem from Aviya Kushner
February 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Poetry book recs from Kaveh Akbar in the NYer
February 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Trying to not look at the news
January 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
AI being built into word processors makes me want to bust out one of these …
January 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Really enjoyed the reading @solsticemfa.bsky.social last night with Dzvinia Orlowsky and Jennifer Jean!
January 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Winter sunsets always get me
January 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM