iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Okay but why do my clothes always look like they’ve never been worn by a human before and aren’t quite sure they’re doing it right? Also, follow me on TikTok if you want! www.tiktok.com/@jessicafait...

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This gorgeous book is out today! www.amazon.com/Sparking-Pea...

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Real authors use em dashes. AI trained on the work of real authors. Real authors — myself included — still use em dashes.

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Babe, are you okay? You haven’t touched your shoeshi.

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Love getting cheerful messages from my Lord of the Rings walking app

A picture of a hobbit-like figure trudging along a weary, gray road. The caption shows that she is on day 728 of the journey, and has traveled 518 miles, and reads, “Each day the land looks much the same as the day before.”

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I walked a mile on the indoor track at the Y, which is 15 times around, and MapMyWalk was completely confused by the situation.

A map showing my walk in red, but instead of the neat ovals of the track I walked it’s a chaotic tangle, as if a cat had played with yarn.

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Love each other fiercely, friends, today and every day.

Peace to those who are lonely
because they equate love with power
and try to fill their empty hearts
with adulation

Peace to those who know
that only love can drive out hate
and who love each other fiercely

Knowing that this love
is the only true power
despite all the pomp
and circumstance

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Can you find it? It’s funny how your brain just “fixes” it.

course catalog

how to be sad (101)
how to be sad and not fall into despair (201)
how to be let others be sad and not try to fix them (311)

how to be angry (102)
how to be angry without hurting anyone (202)
how to turn your anger into the fiercest of love (grad seminar)

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Actually this is a great idea for a tattoo—I might do it! @katemapother.bsky.social

A text conversation between me and Kate 🦮 Mapother., “I’m going to get an M – tattoo. Only writers will understand 🤣” I say it’s like the semicolon tattoo but more literary. “What does that line on your arm mean“ “oh it’s a “by Emily Dickinson.“

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Cheers to the person at Whole Foods who restocked the sold out candle with Laughing Cow cheese!

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I'm definitely not of that belief, and would never equate darkness with evil. That poem is about those of us who experience seasonal depression and struggle with the short days. Here's some of what I've written about the gift and beauty of darkness:

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf, now get ready for

A photo of an orange with white background

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

So sad to hear of Nikki Giovanni’s passing. This is a poem I wrote for Mary Oliver, but now it belongs to Nikki, too.

For Mary (and Nikki)
Jessica Kantrowitz

When a poet dies, her words
brighten & fall like leaves

We must run & gather them,
press them in books

Iron them between wax,
preserve, but also reuse

Rush to make poems of our own
so we are not alone here for long

Write, quickly, write
We must all become poets.

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Starting your holiday shopping? My poetry collection, Open Things, makes a lovely gift! Look at how well she gets along with this Christmas cactus! a.co/d/jbelRN5

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I’m home and recovering! The surgery went well. The first night and day were a bit rough, but I’m regaining some mobility and we tweaked a couple of things to manage the pain. And I have some really great people taking care of me. Thanks so much for all you notes and encouragement!

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Jessica Kantrowitz @jfkantrowitz.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

From my poetry collection, Open Things.

$lament jessica kantrowitz we are holding ourselves and each other together with duct tape every day wrapping our fractured hopes broken hearts rickety souls round and round with gray gauze and still they ask us to work pay the bills, shower as if we were waterproof as if the glue on the tape would not quickly melt$

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