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Northwest Review @northwestreview.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Check out our recent interviews and reviews before our relaunch issue goes live on Monday! nwreview.org

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Northwest Review @northwestreview.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Our relaunch issue is OUT NOW! Please go check out all the excellent writing within! Special thanks to everyone who contributed their work, our editors for making this all happen, and to you, reader, for supporting our community of writers. nwreview.org

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

If you are in a senior leadership position at institution of higher learning and you regularly use generative AI to compose ridiculous, ineffective communications while at the same time trying to put out of work the people who teach others how to communicate better...you need to face yourself.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

LOL. Guys. We don’t register to protest. We just show up.

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This era and its malevolent higher ed consultancies… #backtoschool

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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.... 🎉🎉🎉

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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...

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Jeong Park @jeongpark.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The best author photos are when the author is holding or sitting beside an animal they love.

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"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.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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...

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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.

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

"...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

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/05/2025

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.

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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.

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Grateful to be usually one good nap away from feeling pretty good

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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.

An overhead shot of the may day march in Chicago

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HR Lady Politics enjoyer (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

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.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/04/2025

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

OPEN for all prose chapbook submissions! 4/1-6/1, splitlippress.submittable.com, we've got a person with a high bun holding a snack with a mug in front of them, their face covered by a book JUST LIKE OURS WILL BE...will it be YOUR book? You miss 100% of the shots you don't take! Submit your 60-100pg chapbook to us!

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This Friday! Celebrate National #Poetry Month in #Portland with a terrific lineup of readers, including Acre author @jessejohnson.bsky.social (METABOLICS). Details below! 📚🎉

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m looking forward to supporting Sarah’s launch and reading some new work!!!

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Genevieve DeGuzman @gendeguzman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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

Flyer for Sarah Lyn Rogers's poetry collection book launch at Bishop & Wilde bookstore in Portland, OR on 4/4 @7pm. Sarah is the author of COSMIC TANTRUM. She'll be reading alongside Genevieve DeGuzman, Julia Gaskill, and Jessica E. Johnson.

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Poets' Debut Nonfiction: Poetics, Process & Things We Wish We'd Known panel 📚💙 #AWP25

Poets' Debut Nonfiction: Poetics, Process &
Things We Wish We'd Known

Saturday March 29, 2025 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Room 501ABC, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two

Participants: Chet'la Sebree, Jane Wong, Jessica Johnson moderator),
Michals, and Tyler Mills

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Reality Winner wept

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“Your sister does not have a thesis”

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Thurs. 6:30 to 8 pm! #AWP25 off-site hosted by Village Well Books (Culver City), featuring a showcase of titles by seven Acre #authors: @cdeskilson.bsky.social, @josehernandezdz.bsky.social, Malia Márquez, @bydanobrien.bsky.social, @thejs3.bsky.social, @jessejohnson.bsky.social, and Jenn Scott. 🎉📚

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"Write in the way, and with the practices, that make you feel powerful. The world is a better place, and you are likely better, after you have spent time alone in your mind, trying to figure out what haunts you." —Rita Bullwinkel

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I forwarded an email message (like from a grandparent) to a salty little gen alpha child. I did not hear the end of how email is NOT THE WAY TO COMMUNICATE MOM

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

We know a lot of you are gearing up for #AWP25, so check out the delightful range of panel offering by our authors and stay tuned for announcements about #book signings and offsites! #booksky 🎉🎉🎉 @jessejohnson.bsky.social @ctsalazar.bsky.social @kevinprufer.bsky.social

Acre author panel listings for AWP Los Angeles 2025.

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Shoutout to all the college students who aren’t bots and all the colleges that invest in minimal measures to make sure their students aren’t bots. I wish I worked at one!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

... But by this point it is really clear that behaviour I consider to be petulant, irrational, whiny, self-pitying, and contemptible are by them viewed to be expressions of peak masculinity. I genuinely can't tell what is happening here, I am really not sure where the disconnect has arisen or why.

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It’s infuriating that Penn, Stanford, etc are the subject of most higher ed reporting. Begging a reporter to discover a community college.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

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Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads (Gift Article)

Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.

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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Higher Ed Labor United, AAUP, CWA, AFT, and the UAW—that’s who’s fighting; join or die www.labor4highered.org

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Labor for Higher Education

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This will be played as an attack on universities and research and rightly so—it is—but someone on this list might save your life or that of someone you know if they could keep working. Many will die who didn’t need to if the cuts stand.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

For my latest, I talked with @ctulocal1.bsky.social president Stacy Davis Gates and artist and educator Silvia Gonzalez about how Chicago teachers are creating Sanctuary Teams to protect undocumented students and other marginalized youth from Trump's aggression. (Includes organizing resources.)

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Sanctuary Lessons: How Chicago Teachers Are Defending Their Students

“At the end of the day, we protect our students, period,” says educator Silvia Gonzalez.

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Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Conferenced with first year comp students today, many of whom are building on lived experience and making substantial contributions to the community right now in their careers and applying what they learn in school as they go. This is one of the fun things about community college.

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Brittney Corrigan @brittneycorrigan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Tomorrow! I'll be reading with Elizabeth Costello at 7pm on Thursday 2/6 a Bishop & Wilde in Portland, OR to celebrate our debut fiction books. Hope to see you there! www.bishopandwilde.com/events/britt...

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Bishop & Wilde Books

Join us for a reading featuring poets Brittney Corrigan and Elizabeth Costello!

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025

Folks who can’t be out and about, volunteer opportunity:

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