Coming in Spring 2027, from the Univ. of Pittsburgh’s Pitt Poetry Series, my second book— Earth Shattering News and Other Catastrophes Considered While Listening to the Genius Of Love. Thanks to the editors at the Pitt Poetry Series for bringing me into the fold.
As a person with Tourette's I don't beliieve I owe an apology to anyone who is uninformed regarding my disability. I mean, I can be nice and explain myself. But I don't OWE anyone anything. It's not my burden to carry--I have enough burdens as it is.
One day I will make a feature length film but I'll delete each and every scene until there's nothing left to do but complain.
We tell ourselves stories in order to fuck up the algorithm.
MERRYHAPPYHOLIHANNUKWANZAACHRISTMAS: A MIX IN SOLIDARITY WITH ANY AND ALL ANTI-FASCISTS FOR THE YEAR 2025 AND BEYOND
My holiday mix is up. It’s seasonal AF this year.
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I'm never sure who I'm mad at until I tell them to fuck off.
I'm never sure who I'm mad at until I tell them to fuck off.
I was never more weirded out by someone than that time I was in the Trover Shop on Capitol Hill and ran into one of my coworkers from the Library of Congress who was buying a book called Dress for Success.
A poem for today....
Let your every utterance, be it of love or contempt, be an act of defiance against a regime that can only express the trite chasm of its malodorous nether hole.
"Revolution begins when you are able to see right through the spectacle, which isn't to say that time spent rehearsing isn't time well spent. It's just that you need to know the difference between rehearsal and revolution." Reading at Nov 2, 2pm at Roaming Roast in York, PA.
Antifa lyeth between the Christian nationalist bride and her hedge fund managing bridegroom CONTRA MIKE JOHNSON.
When the population is lulled to sleep by a media that acts as a massive pacifier for corporate interests, any attempt to sever the political from the artistic realm should be considered an act of violence.
Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson calls for a general strike, at least 300,000 people attended the protest. #3E #NoKings #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #EpsteinFiles
THE NIGHT JIMI HENDRIX DIED
My poem on Jimi Hendrix is up at the Mixtape Review (thanks to the crew there!) where you can read the poem while listening to “Purple Haze.” I took the photo earlier this week of what I believe is called The Moon That Cannot Be Named.
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
Hey, Ronnie, sure!
MAGAs have the incredible ability to take even the greatest extravagance and excess and turn it into something incredibly shallow and dull. Indeed, they think they're so interesting even though they're the most boring people on earth.
MAGAs have the incredible ability to take even the greatest extravagance and excess and turn it into something incredibly shallow and dull. Indeed, they think they're so interesting even though they're the most boring people on earth.
The point of cruelty is to hide one's stupidity: one doesn't need to understand what one destroys horribly. Just look at the stupidity of the current regime.
In these days of certain madness and uncertain escape, here’s to getting away—getting away from it, with it, in spite of it. And, sometimes, just staying and fighting it. My poem is at Vox Populi today (thanks, Michael Simms!) wp.me/p4xqzG-qBP
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Jose at a podium with glasses off.
Heather reading at the podium with Jose sitting in the bottom left-hand corner of the photo watching her read.
Jose, with glasses on, reading.
What started as a trip to hear two #poet friends read, ended up encompassing so much more - but oh the joy in hearing @josefpadua.bsky.social & Heather Davis read in-person! Great space. Great host. Great night. Standing room only!
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Fescue Gallery, 140 N. Prince St. in Lancaster. There will be an open mic afterwards. https:// www.facebook.com/share/1GN7XExUU8/ THE TURNING WHEEL MONTHLY LITERARY READING Thursday, September 18, 2025 Doors/Sign Up: 6:30 p.m. Starts: 7:00 p.m. FEATURING: About Heather Davis Heather Davis is a fan of 5 am writing sessions and strong coffee. Her book The Lost Tribe of Us won the Main Street Rag Poetry Award and her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies such as Gargoyle, Fledgling Rag, Poet Lore, What the House Knows, The Book of Donuts, and America's Future. She served as an editor of Quartet journal, performed as part of the Lancaster Living Poetry Museum, and is a member of Write Now Lancaster. She lives in Lancaster, PA with her husband the poet Jose Padua and their two fabulous kids. HEATHER DAVIS Author of The Lost Tribe of Us JOSE PADUA Author of A Short History of Monsters Fescue Gallery 140 N Prince St - Lancaster, PA About Jose Padua Jose Padua's first book, A Short History of Monsters, was chosen by Billy Collins as the winner of the 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and is out from the University of Arkansas Press. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in many publications, including the 2025 edition of Best American Poetry. He has read his work at Lollapalooza, CBGBs, the Knitting Factory, the Public Theater, the Living Theater, the Nuyorican Poets' Café, the St. Mark's Poetry Project, the Split This Rock festival, and many other venues. He lives with his wife, the poet Heather L. Davis, and children in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
In Lancaster, tonight! Two, not one-but TWO awesome poets! @josefpadua.bsky.social
I’ll be in attendance & would love to see you there!! (And what a great place for a reading!)
POETRY READING with Heather Davis and Jose Padua
This Thursday September 18 at 7pm, Heather and I are reading for the Turning Wheel series at the Fescue Gallery, 140 N. Prince St. in Lancaster. There will be an open mic afterwards.
The struggle to be real is slowly losing its traditional grammar. A new language will have to emerge if we are to have any chance at survival.
I have a poem up at Vox Populi today. Thanks, Michael Simms!
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Next week, September 18, Heather and I will be reading for the Turning Wheel series. 7pm at the Fescue Gallery, 140 N. Prince ST, Lancaster, PA.
Thanks, Joyce!
