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I'm a second rate writer 🚮 from outer-space 🚀 a burrito lover 🌯 queer 🌈and a human disaster| jjpena.com

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
More people are going to be murdered by ICE. It’s clear. The tactics ensure it, ICE is getting more furious and being disagreed with or resisted in any way, the verminous administration supports them and has shown they will tell any lie to support ICE murdering people. /1
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"What is the responsibility of a 'feminist' when the power swings their way?" Nicole Zhao chats with author @cherrylousy.bsky.social about immigration, feminism, and gender roles. Read it all here! buff.ly/vA6BRk5
Love Can't Feed You, a novel by Cherry Lou Sy.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Celebrating the work of our trans and queer contributors today and every day! Check out a few pieces from our archive we hope stay with you beyond the blog. buff.ly/554vznz
A variety of LGBTQ+ flag pins on a table.
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
here's an excerpt from my chapbook, which you should buy so I can afford childcare while I go into the fields and harvest fresh fruits and vegetables for my children to eat asterismbooks.com/product/ragn...
How to Live
by Todd Dillard

Depravity begins with thinking of love
as a radical act. I quit loving 
with difficulty. I love 
easy now. Two parakeets on my shoulders.
They'll fly away if I move. So I move.
I love flight. I love cages 
left wide open. I am not a window.
I could be a window. Open me,
you'll find a dense wood,
children wandering inside it.
Not lost children. They know the way.
They live the way horses run.
If they each had a bird in hand
they would open their hands.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Announcing the lineup for Smokelong's #AWP25 #AWP Offsite Reading on Friday March 28, 5.30pm, First Draft Taproom & Kitchen (10 mins walk from convention center). Say hi at Booth 656 (take part in our famous Bookfair Micro Contest!)
Free offsite reading at AWP: Fri March 28 5:30 PM at First Draft Taproom and Kitchen. 1230 Olive Street. Reading: M Aliberto, J Bassett, M Czyzniejewski, ML Brownlee, C Monpere, JJ Pena, and PQ Bidar!
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This week's interview is the first of two with @jjpena.bsky.social, who was both a finalist and first prize winner in the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2024. Here jj talks about "strangers breathe air into you", finalist in the competition: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
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Smoke & Mirrors with jj peña - SmokeLong Quarterly
Wow—what a gorgeous piece. Take me through the process of creating a work so perfectly compressed. I think about Ezra Pound who famously carved away at “In a Station of the Metro” until he had those g...
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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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BREAKING NEWS
Various sources from the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) have confirmed and the Los Angeles Times leaked a memo stating that on February 23, 2025, ICE will start their "knock and talk" practices in the greater Los Angeles area.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
1. These "knock and talk" practices are UNCONSTITUTIONAL (Kidd v. Mayorkas, 2024).
2. Do NOT open the door unless they have a judicial warrant signed by a judge. The name MUST be spelled correctly.
3. If they try to use violent or aggressive tactics and you're a mixed status family, make a plan as to who will respond.
4. If you are documented or an ally and see ICE agents in private areas such as driveways, backyards, the sides of a house, or inside an apartment building, they CANNOT be there without a warrant. Try to stop them in a safe manner. Document the encounter and ask them what they are doing there. Protect your community before the agents have a chance to harass anyone.
Law Office of Rebecca Medina
323.422.5243
suvozlegal@gmail.comNOTICIA DE ULTIMA HORA
Varias fuentes de la Asociación de Abogados del Condado de Los Angeles (LACBA) lo han confirmado y Los Ángeles Times filtró un memo que afirma que el 23 de febrero de 2025, ICE iniciará sus practicas de "tocar y hablar" en el área metropolitano de Los Angeles.
RECORDATORIOS IMPORTANTES:
1. Estas prácticas de "tocar y hablar" son INCONSTITUCIONALES (Kidd v. Mayorkas, 2024).
2. NO abran la puerta a menos que tengan una orden judicial firmada por un juez. El nombre DEBE estar escrito correctamente.
3. Si intentan utilizar tácticas violentas o agresivas y usted es una familia de estatus mixto, haga un plan sobre quién responderá.
4. Si es persona documentada o es un aliado y ve agentes de ICE en áreas privadas como entradas de vehículos, patios traseros, lados de una casa o dentro de un edificio de apartamentos, NO PUEDEN estar allí sin una orden judicial. Intente detenerlos de manera segura. Documente el encuentro y pregúnteles qué están haciendo allí. Protega a su comunidad antes que los agentes tengan la oportunidad de acosar a alguien.
Law Office of
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Rebecca Medina
323.422.5243
suvozlegal@gmail.com
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Inspired to listen to @dare-williams.bsky.social read his poem ETYMOLOGY (bit.ly/ExpoEtymology) in #Transposition, our podcast, born out of COVID & the need to celebrate our 2020 annual issue writers in a bigger way than sheltering in place allowed. Listen here: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-v....
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Etymology - Exposition Review
by Dare Williams   |    Poetry   it starts in phoenix growing in the dark moves its way to you then leaves me breathless in hollywood where we laid our heads there was a break & I said ok let you driv...
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Saúl Hernández @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I’m excited to be a visiting writer at Texas State University. I’m preparing a craft talk, a workshop, and I’ll be reading. Be there Feb 26! Also, I’m open for university bookings for Fall 2025 & Spring 2026, email me if interested.
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JJ @jjpena.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Thank you for the support!!!
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Want to do something about Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders? Download a community defense playbook at defendandrecruit.org, sign up for a training, and check out this op-ed in Teen Vogue today.
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Today's writing prompt, courtesy of Edgar Gomez via 100 Days of Creative Resistance (Writing Co-Lab): www.writingco-lab.com/100-days "Choose a person you love. Write about one perfect day you had together. Leave out any wisdom. Just remember something nice and hold on to it as long as you can."
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Time for some good news! We are thrilled to announce that Vanessa Hua’s flash, “Forecast,” has been selected for Best Microfictions 2025! Congratulations, @vanessahua.bsky.social ! buff.ly/3WqCFus
Congratulations Vanessa Hua!
 "Forecast" from Split Lip Magazine 
Best Microfiction 2025
Text on a background of rolling gray fog
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JJ @jjpena.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"For the longest time I’ve wanted to be alone. Friday nights are the loneliest. I’m afraid to admit— time is killing me. Sometimes I’m so far away I forgot silence is another form of living."
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Art & words will help us get through 2025. We are honored & grateful to present our beautiful JANUARY ISSUE: buff.ly/2Z36noR WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro ART: Daisuke Takakura PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa
Composite photo: a girl dressed all in blue appears cloned, captured twirling in sundry positions. Her skirt billows and she smiles radiantly. Her brown hair and shadows dance with her in the sunlight.
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JJ @jjpena.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
SO PROUD!!!!!!
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JJ @jjpena.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This is me ☺️
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JJ @jjpena.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
why are so many big/canonical writers monsters?
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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Never been much of a love poet, but here’s my attempt at writing a love poem for my love, published in the Winter 2025 issue of @sixthfinch. Thanks to Rob MacDonald for giving this piece a beautiful home. Read the whole issue here: sixthfinch.com
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
My January Newsletter: The Things We Carry open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...
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The Things We Carry
lending weight to our stories
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JJ @jjpena.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
howdy peeps, for my first post on this platform, I am happy to share that I won @smokelong.bsky.social's Grand Micro Contest. If you have some time to read, please check out my work/interview and all the other writers in the issue. www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...
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the sky didn't slip inside - SmokeLong Quarterly
let’s pretend the day didn’t begin with death. let’s pretend you didn’t facetime my sister from your car crying, YOU’VE LEFT ME & I’VE FALLEN THROUGH THE EARTH, & then put a plastic bag over your head...
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