Janine Joseph

Holding the anthology "Here to Stay" in front of a patch of pink an orange flowers on a meadow

"Here to Stay" collects #poetry & prose from 53 undocumented writers in America. "A poem cannot protect a person without documents from arrest. But it is capable of a resonant whisper" say the #undocupoets editors @marcelohcastillo.bsky.social @j9joseph.bsky.social & @estherwslin.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing our anthology!

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 22nd! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

I’m closing my time as a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project with a new op-ed in Prism Reports. Next week is AWP & the piece is perfectly timed—if you’re attending & browsing the bookfair, pay attention to the submission guidelines you come across & invite people into more inclusive practices.

Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry. Edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi.

Excited to release HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry with @haymarketbooks.org, coming to your nearest bookstore in May 2025. The cover is from Palestinian artist Jumana Manna & features brilliant poetry from Palestinian comrades all over the world. @intifadabatata.bsky.social

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

A workshop opportunity. Limited slots for virtual class partial acholarships available

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HERE TO STAY, as reviewed by @christophernelson.bsky.social for Green Linden Press:

“And what coheres in these pages—despite stylistic and formal variety—is the power of art to make the poet and the reader more whole, and to intend a more whole future and a more complete sense of history.”

🌻 Thank you for your attentiveness and generosity with this anthology

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She Grew Up Undocumented. Her Experience Shaped Her Poetry. Days after Donald Trump's inauguration, formerly undocumented Filipino artist Janine Joseph will discuss the intricacies of immigration and how art can fuel a movement in perilous times. The talk will...

Read this intimate profile on poet, @j9joseph.bsky.social written by @serenazets.bsky.social for the @wcp.bsky.social: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7565...

Janine will be at Hill Center on Thursday, get your tickets now: www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-li...

@poetrysociety.bsky.social #DCTODO

Celebrated Poet and Librettist Janine Joseph Featured in The Life of a Poet Series The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of conversations that Hill Center launched in 2013. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore the major events that have shaped their work. Featured poets have included Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, Elizabeth Alexander,

Tomorrow, we will have the talented (and formerly undocumented) poet and librettist, @j9joseph.bsky.social come to speak at Hill Center. Here is a blog to learn more about her life and work: https://bit.ly/JanineJosephBlog
#ThingsToDoInDC #Poet #Writer

I’m not looking forward to much of next week, but onwards we go—& a bright spot is Thursday when I’ll be in conversation with poet Kyle Dargan for the Life of a Poet series Hill Center. Many thanks to everyone making this event possible, including Mary Ann Brownlow and Serena Zets.

Celebrated Poet and Librettist Janine Joseph Featured in The Life of a Poet Series The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of conversations that Hill Center launched in 2013. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore the major events that have shaped their work. Featured poets have included Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, Elizabeth Alexander,

On January 23rd, we will have the talented (and formerly undocumented) poet and librettist, @j9joseph.bsky.social come to speak at Hill Center. Here is a blog to learn more about her life and work: https://bit.ly/JanineJosephBlog
#ThingsToDoInDC #Poet #Writer

Celebrated Poet and Librettist Janine Joseph Featured in The Life of a Poet Series The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of conversations that Hill Center launched in 2013. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore the major events that have shaped their work. Featured poets have included Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, Elizabeth Alexander,

On January 23rd, we will have the talented (and formerly undocumented) poet and librettist, @j9joseph.bsky.social come to speak at Hill Center. Here is a blog to learn more about her life and work: https://bit.ly/JanineJosephBlog
#ThingsToDoInDC #Poet #Writer

Friends in the DC and DMV area! On January 23rd, I’ll be talking with poet, editor, and American University professor Kyle Dargan as part of The Life of a Poet series at the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital in DC. I hope you’ll join us: www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-li...

Submissions are now OPEN for the annual Undocupoets Fellowship! Three $500 fellowships + all-inclusive scholarships to attend the 2025 Summer Workshop Program at the Fine Arts Work Center. Open to poets who are currently or formerly undocumented in the United States.

DEADLINE: 2/14 at 11:59 pm ET

Celebrated Poet and Librettist Janine Joseph Featured in The Life of a Poet Series The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of conversations that Hill Center launched in 2013. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore the major events that have shaped their work. Featured poets have included Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, Elizabeth Alexander,

On January 23rd, we will have the talented (and formerly undocumented) poet and librettist, @j9joseph.bsky.social come to speak at Hill Center. Here is a blog to learn more about her life and work: https://bit.ly/JanineJosephBlog
#ThingsToDoInDC #Poet #Writer

Ten covers of the poetry collections listed in the link below.

Titles, authors, and presses. Link provided below.

Cheers to the poets! It is, as always, a joy to serve on this committee. The @bookcritics.bsky.social poetry longlist is live!

Help me pick a new author photo

Honoring Palestinian Poets in a Time of Genocide: Poems from National Book Award Winner Lena Khalaf Tuffaha + Finalist Fady Joudah - Mizna Love takes the form of rain clouds: we accumulate despite our im/possible wounds, gather even in miraculous conditions. We join our kin in the swarm, all of whom gathering, like us, as waters from unk...

For Mizna, I reflect on this moment of honoring Palestinians at the National Book Awards @nationalbook.bsky.social & sit more deeply with @lenakt.bsky.social & Fady Joudah's earth-shattering books. An honor to publish both finalist readings, including Fady's new poem 🍉🇵🇸

mizna.org/mizna-online...

Post-MFA Resources Fellowships, Residencies, and other resources for people with MFAs in Creative Writing...

I am keeper of the post-MFA tumblr (crowdsourced) which has tons of info on post-MFA fellowships, BUT it also has info on residencies—with a whole section of shorter residencies for caregivers! Pass it on! #writers #writingcommunity post-mfa.tumblr.com/residencies

NPR headline: Oarfish keep washing ashore in California. Folklore suggests that could be a bad omen.

Hide the poets—

Celebrating my rejection, too! 💕😩

Picture of a lunar halo, explained as “a large, bright ring of light that appears around the moon when moonlight is refracted by ice crystals in cirrus clouds.”

Sometimes there are perks to walking your pup in 37 degree weather—above us last night was a lunar halo, which I’d never seen before 🧿

We are looking for members for our Reader Board. These volunteer readers’ responsibilities would primarily include reading manuscripts for contests, open reading periods, and solicited submissions, and more! Applications are due by 11/30. www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#re...

Can I be added too? 💗

“A poet is a nightingale who sits in the darkness, and sings”

—Shelley, in Defense of Poetry

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"In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times."

—Bertolt Brecht

On the left, a blue folder with the official seal of the Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. On the right, a letter from the Governor congratulating me on receiving the 2024 Virginia Literary Award for Poetry.

Detailed view of the letter from the Virginia governor congratulating me on receiving the 2024 Virginia Literary Award for Poetry.

Documents like these tell a wild story of my life as a formerly undoc person. My college diploma was signed by Schwarzenegger, who repealed a law allowing undoc people the right to obtain driver’s licenses. My naturalization certificate was signed by Obama, who left office as “Deporter-In-Chief.”

😆 I’m mostly on IG these days and not otherwise posting much! And would love that!