Jessica E. Johnson

If you are in a senior leadership position at institution of higher learning and you regularly use generative AI to compose ridiculous, ineffective communications while at the same time trying to put out of work the people who teach others how to communicate better...you need to face yourself.

LOL. Guys. We don’t register to protest. We just show up.

This era and its malevolent higher ed consultancies…
#backtoschool

Painful layers of mediocrity and entitlement

Metabolics In this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navigating identities, impulses, and relationships that are often...

Flashback Friday! Why not finish the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social with @jessejohnson.bsky.social's METABOLICS, a 2024 Oregon Book Award Finalist and
California Review of Books Outstanding #Poetry Book? For more on this innovative debut, visit press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🎉🎉🎉

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

The best author photos are when the author is holding or sitting beside an animal they love.

"Just as I long for poems that carry the wisdom and surprise of my friends’ verbal play, I hope for novels that are absorbing, like a long conversation with a friend. . ."

In our Family Secrets Folio, @jessejohnson.bsky.social reviews Morgan Talty's FIRE EXIT.

ICE Arrests David Huerta, Beloved Labor Leader and SEIU California President “We all collectively have to object to this madness,” said Huerta after his violent arrest for witnessing an ICE raid.

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California?

truthout.org/articles/ice...

I have few regrets, but one is that I didn’t read Alice Notley sooner. I think my life would have been different, and better.

"...the depth and extent of the exclusion of women poets from previous literature was an unfathomable void that no man was ever going to be capable of understanding. The suppression of women from poetry was an incomparable loss, a tragedy for me and everyone else."

Alice Notley

I’m reading tomorrow night for Pendleton’s First Draft series (virtual). 5/15 7:00 Pacific

Zoom link at the link.

pendletonarts.org/first-draft/

Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.

I was happy to review a great novel in this folio. Thanks @lisaampleman.bsky.social for the opportunity. I am loving @jscheng.bsky.social ‘s craft essay here and looking forward to reading the others.

Grateful to be usually one good nap away from feeling pretty good

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

An overhead shot of the may day march in Chicago

Overhead of the May Day march in Chicago. Thousands and thousands. I've heard (but can't confirm) anywhere between 10-50k. In any case it's huge.

Hear me out. No more interviews of the weird pronatalist couple.

Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that.

A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.

OPEN for all prose chapbook submissions! 4/1-6/1, splitlippress.submittable.com, we've got a person with a high bun holding a snack with a mug in front of them, their face covered by a book JUST LIKE OURS WILL BE...will it be YOUR book? You miss 100% of the shots you don't take! Submit your 60-100pg chapbook to us!

It's Chapbook Day! Our Open Prose Chapbook Period is open for submissions now through 6/1!

We're looking for your fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and other surprising prose chapbooks (btwn 60-100pg, with a little flex in both directions) from April 1 through June 1.

splitlippress.submittable.com

This Friday! Celebrate National #Poetry Month in #Portland with a terrific lineup of readers, including Acre author @jessejohnson.bsky.social (METABOLICS). Details below! 📚🎉

I’m looking forward to supporting Sarah’s launch and reading some new work!!!

Flyer for Sarah Lyn Rogers's poetry collection book launch at Bishop & Wilde bookstore in Portland, OR on 4/4 @7pm. Sarah is the author of COSMIC TANTRUM. She'll be reading alongside Genevieve DeGuzman, Julia Gaskill, and Jessica E. Johnson.

Portland, come hear poetry at Bishop & Wilde this Friday, 4/4 @7pm. Celebrate Sarah's @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social debut COSMIC TANTRUM with me, Ellee Achten, @jessejohnson.bsky.social and @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social

#pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth

If I post my AWP haul you’re going to know the severity of my book buying ways and it’s embarrassing AF

Poets' Debut Nonfiction: Poetics, Process & Things We Wish We'd Known Saturday March 29, 2025 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Room 501ABC, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two Participants: Chet'la Sebree, Jane Wong, Jessica Johnson moderator), Michals, and Tyler Mills

Poets' Debut Nonfiction: Poetics, Process & Things We Wish We'd Known panel 📚💙 #AWP25

It me

Acre authors in action! @jessejohnson.bsky.social (METABOLICS, METTLEWORK) talking all things cnf! Order her #memoir at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo..., or stop by Booth 307! 🎉🎉🎉

Reality Winner wept

“Your sister does not have a thesis”

Thurs. 6:30 to 8 pm! #AWP25 off-site hosted by Village Well Books (Culver City), featuring a showcase of titles by seven Acre #authors: @cdeskilson.bsky.social, @josehernandezdz.bsky.social, Malia Márquez, @bydanobrien.bsky.social, @thejs3.bsky.social, @jessejohnson.bsky.social, and Jenn Scott. 🎉📚