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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

May Day poetry reading TONIGHT!! If you have more energy after the demonstrations today, please come out to The Square Root in Rozzie for a May Day poetry reading I'm part of, along with @jennmartelli.bsky.social 8pm. No cover charge.

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Policymakers learned nothing from the war in Vietnam, but I learned how much I hated war, growing up in the wake of it

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Beltane May Day A poem about a farm fundraiser and marriage and springtime A poem about a couple who just lost their insurance A poem about sitting shivah for capitalism Come join me for this

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

May Day* set list Poems from my book: I buried the workweek Placenta Long suffering Other poems: The gates open—unpub’d poem Retirement—poem pub’d in Matter The desert god demands a tithe —new poem I would not laugh at a man in uniform —new poem * May 1, 8pm, The Square Root, Roslindale MA

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Cicadas are coming to the northeast this summer, and I’m working on a poem about time. I’m hoping friends will send me storing their cicada encounters, to put into the poem, which will be in “we” voice like the swarm.

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

May I read some labor related poems to you on May Day?

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Reupping this, because SHRIMP LIFE, I guess.

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Got plans for May Day yet? Come to Square Root for some poetry

May 1, 8-11 pm, featured readers E Greymore, Jennifer Martelli, Jim Dunn, and Josette Akresh-Gonzales

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Aliza Wasserman @beetthesystem.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

500+ Jews show up to stand with our immigrant neighbors in Boston and beyond against illegal deportations this Pesach @truahrabbis.bsky.social @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social #SederintheStreets #freeMahmoud #freeRumeysah #freeMohsen

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IfNotNow Boston 🔥 @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

BOSTON MA: On this 6th night of Passover, over 300 Jews have gathered to demand the release of Rümeysa Öztürk and the passage of the Dignity Not Deportations Act. As authoritarianism encroaches on our city & across the US, we fight for freedom — not only for ourselves, but for all who are oppressed.

Panorama of massive crowd gathering at Boston city hall

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

6 pm! Today! Boston! @ifnotnowmovement.org

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/04/2025

99% of activism doesn't need to be posted on social media. Expecting people to post everything they do as some kind of litmus test isn't just wrong, it's dangerous. People are more than what they post, and you should be, too.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Don’t bother asking if you are doing enough, for enough is a destination that you can never reach, no, don’t bother asking if you are doing enough, ask instead if the something the something you are doing is at least a step towards that destination.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I don’t need to go into space, it’s none of my business. I’m a big Earth guy, I can’t get enough of her work. Daffodils! Are you kidding me? Bison! Miraculous. Sending a slinky down the stairs? Incredible. Mariachi music? Yes, please.

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Blushing & sharing:

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Years ago I stopped following all the loophole rules of Pesach. For me the only rule is No Bread.

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/04/2025

“they are getting rich directly off the market chaos that’s ruining your retirement and gutting your investments” is the kind of shit that makes people very angry

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

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Basho Society @bashosociety.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

in the latter days of a corrupt world cherry blossoms Issa

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

“Here are my favorite waters of the moon: Sea of Crises, Sea of Knowledge, Seething Bay, Bay of the Center, Lake of Time, Lake of Fear.”

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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.

Photo of book, “Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza— a reckoning,” by Peter Beinart

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

How to read a poem properly

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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...

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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...

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Suggestions for interim actions: ✅Make/distribute flyers + stickers to spread info offline ✅Volunteer time or money for mutual aid--food banks, libraries, legal aid, whatever! ✅Check in on ppl, esp. elderly, disabled, immigrants, trans folks + new parents ✅Start a garden ✅Call your reps ✅Make art!

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/04/2025

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

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Christine Fernandez @twinster91.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#HandsOff Waltham, MA

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GD Lynx @gdlynx.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Small sample from Hands Off in Waltham, MA

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Boston turned out this morning despite the rain ❤️💪 #HandsOff

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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration. So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY. Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Just went to this panel at AWP and got to howl like wolves with a bunch of poets, in an extended metaphor about the joy and usefulness of preaching to the choir

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is what I picture when you talk about how useful AI is

Homework Machine, by Shel Silverstein
The homework machine, oh the homework machine,
Most perfect contraption that’s ever been seen.
Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime,
Snap on the switch, and in 10 seconds time,
Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be.
Here it is – “9+4?” And the answer is “three.“
Three?
Oh me…
I guess it’s not as perfect.
As I thought it would be.

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Donna Spruijt-Metz @dsmpoet.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

To Phrase a Prayer for Peace launches online on Sunday March 23, 4:00 pm PT with the amazing poets @jaredharel.bsky.social Julia Kolchinsky and Yehoshua Josh November. Thank you @wildhousepubs.bsky.social and Mark S. Burrows! Register here usc.zoom.us/meeting/regi... I would love to see you there!

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Glad Elizabeth Warren is my senator

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Josette Akresh-Gonzales @vivakresh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Didn’t need this to convince me but glad someone else thinks like this!

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