Jen Eli Bowen

Jen Eli Bowen

@jenbowen.bsky.social

Easily lost, MN. Writer, editor, instructor @ MN Prison Writing Workshop THE BOOK OF KIN (Milkweed Editions, October 21, 2025) Short & angsty Agent: Nordlyset

118 Followers 110 Following 15 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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1 week ago

If you turn off the volume and just look at his face, he looks like a guilty little boy who knows he's lying and is about to get busted.

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Abena Ntoso - The Book of Kin: Imagination, Connection, and Learning to Articulate Backlit Podcast with Abena Ntoso The Book of Kin: Imagination, Connection, and Learning to Articulate

Excited to announce the release of episode 5 of Backlit featuring writer and visionary Jennifer Eli Bowen! We explore the dynamics of human connection, imagination, and self-expression. Thank you, Jen, for a heartfelt and inspiring conversation! 📚💙 #writers #books #poets #podcast

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2 weeks ago

Thank YOU, Abena, for your time and generosity.

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The White House is obsessed with hiding the President's involvement in a child sex ring. It's what they spend most of their time on.

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2 weeks ago

Is it because he's acting as if he has total immunity? I wonder how John Roberts could've prevented such entitlement?

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1 month ago

What do you mean "until then?" No. No funding. They can't be trusted to follow whatever tweaks you put into a bill.

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1 month ago

If only they gave one damn about the laws. They don't.

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NOW.

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epsein

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OF THE EMPIRE

We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

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3 months ago
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What the Body Gives: A Conversation with Kristin Collier - Chicago Review of Books Our interview with Kristin Collier about her debut memoir, "What Debt Demands."

"We all have the chance to find peace through something more collective."

@jenbowen.bsky.social's interview with @kristincollier.bsky.social on her new book "What Debt Demands” (@grandcentralpub.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/19/w...

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4 months ago
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Caring for One Another in Jennifer Eli Bowen's "The Book of Kin" - Chicago Review of Books Our review of Jennifer Eli Bowen's new book, "The Book of Kin."

"A hopeful exploration of what it means to care for one another...honest, entertaining, heart-wrenching, and dripping with empathy."

@angieraney.bsky.social's review of “The Book of Kin” by Jennifer Eli Bowen (@milkweededitions.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/28/c...

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4 months ago

Next Tues, MFA alum @kristincollier.bsky.social launches her NF debut What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, & Precarity in a Broken System--with assists from authors Zeke Caligiuri (current MFA student), @sunyungshin.bsky.social @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social and @jenbowen.bsky.social!

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5 months ago
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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5 months ago

Because Krasnov has debts and we're all going to pay for them.

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6 months ago
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A nation's memory is not a political weapon It’s the complex, unvarnished story of where we’ve been and a guide for where we must go. And now, it is under attack.

A nation's memory is not a political weapon... beautiful, stirring piece
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6 months ago

Every meant-to-distract protest sign should say EPSTEIN & TRUMP RAPED YOUNG GIRLS.

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6 months ago

As one would expect of a Russian asset.

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7 months ago
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North Shore Readers and Writers Festival - Grand Marais Art Colony

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7 months ago
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Crafting Artful Personal Stories Beyond the Academy - Grand Marais Art Colony In this 2-day workshop for writers of all skill levels, we’ll explore personal writing that’s necessary, moving and true. We’ll read enduring works and talk about craft choices such as […]

MN: Come write with me November 5-6th in Grand Marais! My class still has a few spots left. We're going to read, write, revise, share (optional) and leave with direction, inspiration, and renewed passion for the work--yours and this whole literary endeavor.

grandmaraisartcolony.org/event/crafti...

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7 months ago

From your lips to god's ear.

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8 months ago

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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10 months ago
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Author David Joy speaking at the Jackson County Commissioners’ meeting last week about their Confederate monument. #ncpol #rural #confederacy TikTok video by Gina Baxter

I don’t got a TikTok and I sure never intended for that video to be out, honestly didn’t even know it was recorded, but glad the words are out there.
www.tiktok.com/@baxterforhe...

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11 months ago
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Are you going to the #HandsOff Rally at the MN State Capitol next Saturday, April 5, 12pm? Do you have questions about: where to park, public transit, accessibility needs, will there be port-a-potties? We've got answers! Please check out our FAQ page here: indivisibletwincities.org/hands-off-ra...

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1 year ago

We're near borders at any rate, eh? Sending love. xo

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1 year ago
A tweet from Carole Cadwalladr warns of an alleged illegal power grab in the U.S., calling it a "digital coup" led by Elon Musk. Below the tweet is a screenshot of The New York Times front page with headlines about Musk's team gaining access to Treasury payment systems. Large red text over the image reads, "IT'S A COUP."

Legacy media is sleepwalking us into fascism.

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1 year ago
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US Coup Gains Speed Europe shakes as new world order emerges. Here's what's not on the front page of the New York Times right now

US-Coup gewinnt an Fahrt
Europa bebt, während eine neue Weltordnung entsteht. Was nicht auf der Titelseite der New York Times steht

Carole Cadwalladr

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