Josette Akresh-Gonzales

Excited to win the runner-up spot! Thank you, @smartishpace.bsky.social !

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.

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.

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

Honestly can’t wait two days @jennmartelli.bsky.social

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

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

*stories

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.

This comes up in a poem I wrote about the ocean. Which is in “Breaking the Glass” anthology!!

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

Reupping this, because SHRIMP LIFE, I guess.

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

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

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A heron in a pond

Also herons

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

Panorama of massive crowd gathering at Boston city hall

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.

I did

Large crowd with buildings

Sign saying Jews say: not in our name

Sign saying how are we supposed to explain this administration to our kids?! Obama ‘28 Please

Seder in the streets! @ifnotnowmovement.org @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social

Freedom Seder poster

6 pm! Today! Boston! @ifnotnowmovement.org

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.

Freedom Seder poster

6 pm! Today! Boston! @ifnotnowmovement.org

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.

Such a beautiful poem!!

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.

Brown flatbread

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

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.

Chocolate cake and whipped cream in a spiral

Heavenly (pesedik) chocolate cake — as promised! @smittenkitchen.bsky.social

Blushing & sharing:

Haha