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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This Sunday, October 4, I will discuss concrete and peaceful steps we can take to bring the best of our humanity into the future. To enroll, email TheFasanoAcademy@gmail.com or EmmaWaterhouseAssistant@gmail.com.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What do we do about AI? Here's a clip from my recent appearance on the Joystarters Podcast with host Rachel Joy Baribeau. "How We Survive: A Guide to Being Human in a Time of AI" is forthcoming from Aftershock in March 2027.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm often asked what I believe. In this new interview, I spoke with Epochal Change about surviving the age of AI, democratizing art without compromise, and the radical empathy needed to truly find each other: www.epochalchange.org/ink-and-aria...

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Perceiving the Sacred — epochalchange.org

An interview with poet Joseph Fasano on Whitman, fatherhood, craft, and why poetry remains humanity's essential tool to perceive the sacred in the age of AI.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Join us online this Sunday! Email for details: Joseph.Fasano@gmail.com

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

After years of prep and reflection, I'm ready to give these lectures. Starting tomorrow (9/20) online.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm teaching an online class on "Being Human Together in a Time of AI," starting tomorrow (9/20). Registration closes today, 9/19, at 5:00 PM Eastern. Join us to discuss what it means to be human, how we arrived at the AI crisis, and what we can do. For details, email Joseph.Fasano@gmail.com.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Please pause a moment to listen to this. Patricia Smith's reading of these words proves that the human voice will not easily be silenced, not even in this world.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Registration closes this Saturday! I've opened up more seats, so grab yours while you can and join us for this essential conversation. We can do this together. Email for registration info: joseph.fasano@gmail.com.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

MAJOR NEWS! Friends, I wrote this for you, for all of us. My nonfiction book *How We Survive: A Guide to Being Human in a Time of AI* will be published by the *Essays from the Aftermath* imprint of Aftershock. Hope is possible. Here's the link: www.aftershockreview.com/product-page...

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

for all those who rush into danger for others 🕯️

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be teaching a new online course on the topic that I feel is most urgent. This autumn, join me for three chats about how we have arrived at a crisis—dehumanization, authoritarianism, and AI—and what we can do about it. For details, email TheFasanoAcademy@gmail.com.

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The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis) @maxwallis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s time. February 2027. The Last Song of the World by Joseph Fasano (@joseph.fasano) is published in the UK with five previously unreleased poems, by @aftershockpoetry.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I often think of Wendell Berry's great poem "The Peace of Wild Things," and I have a fruitful little quarrel with it: while his poem moves away from humanity for respite, I feel drawn toward us, despite everything, because of everything. I offer this little meditation to you.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

May this find someone who needs it. 🕯️

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The greatest revolution will come when we demand that the "value" of a human life is not in what it produces but in the sacred, messy mystery of its process of becoming what it is.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I think this is the best passage written about AI in our time:

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'm astonished by the response to my poem "Instructions for Having a Soul." Here it is in my voice, from one human to another:

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My poetry student Kristen Nimr made this photo portrait of me at my recent poetry reading in NYC. I'll be giving more events this autumn, and I hope to meet more of you out there in the world.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to the reading in NYC this evening. It was wonderful to meet so many of you in person. These signed broadsides of one of my poems (designed by Chris Dean) will be available soon, and a video clip of the reading will be posted shortly. Love you all.

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“We can't save the dead / but we can free them.” — Joseph Fasano

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'll be reading my poems and signing books in NYC this evening. 6 PM, Howl @ 6 E 1st Street. Everyone is welcome & I hope to see you there! ❤️

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One night, after trying to write about this troubled world, after crossing out pages and pages of what I'd written, I fell asleep, dreamt of being visited by the great poet Rumi, and woke with this poem.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is the best email a writer could get, and I treasure it more than any award or review.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I was going through old boxes, and I found this unpublished poem of mine I'd written in the back of a textbook, probably in my twenties, when I was in and out of mental health facilities. I've typed it up, in the hope that it might help someone out there.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I'm posting this today, on July 4, because some people in this world do not have the luxury of knowing the explosions they're hearing are just fireworks—and because we have work to do until everyone is free.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This is for all the healers everywhere. 🕯️

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My whole mission is to break down the barriers within ourselves that lead to the barriers between each other. Thank you, Kelly, for inviting me to chat. Remember, everyone, your life is not a crime. ❤️

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Thank you, @kellyclarksontv.bsky.social, for amplifying the voices of teachers and writers at a time when we need our shared humanity more than ever. ❤️

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Today is my birthday, which is always a day of complicated feelings. The greatest gift is just being here, being able to keep changing, to keep becoming, in the hope that the work I'm doing is helping in some way. ❤️

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I truly hope this finds its way to all who might need to hear it.

The Passion

What have you done three times
with your life?
Let it crumble?
Tried to lift it?
Stayed?

Listen: there will be time
for the wonder of wonders,
for the miraculous kingdom
that Spring is,
but today
there is nothing but the trouble—

(this hungering, this scent
of bread, this rage)—

and a man on his knees among his captors
with a crown of thorns
on his temples
and a cross of cedar on his shoulder
and his eyes that find
your eyes now
in the wild crowd
and ask you, in their language
of silences,
What would happen, what
would finally happen
if you opened, if you broke
so wholly open
that you gave your ruin the last chance
to undo you.
Today is when you stop wasting your pain.

—Joseph Fasano

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A writer's greatest advocates are his translators, so I'm deeply moved to receive a new selection of my poems translated into Italian by Pietro Federico. You can get a copy of this lovely bilingual edition here: www.edizioniensemble.it/prodotto/il-...

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

You have only two tasks on this hard earth: to love (to love with all of you) and not to get to the end, with all its wreckage, and find out that the voice in you that you silenced was the beautiful truth all along.

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Jaime Hylton, Hodophile, Orophile, Librocubicularist @shadowjaime.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

#NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry “Lines for My Last Day, Whenever It May Come” — Joseph Fasano I knew that I wanted to post a Joseph Fasano poem this month, but I had a hard time deciding which one. Finally, this one felt right. You can find many others @josephfasano.bsky.social.

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