Josh Fomon
@burrowtongue.bsky.social
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Poet, writer, ex-politics, and current creative tech. Author of Our Human Shores (Black Ocean 2025) and Though We Bled Meticulously (Black Ocean 2016). Pre-order: https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/our-human-shores
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“Heresies are dreamy, to me. They nudge us to think, to imagine, to forsake the given scripts and safety associated with conforming to received beliefs and conventions.”

@civitaveritas.bsky.social interviews @alinaetc.bsky.social about My Heresies (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social).

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"Ultimately Unbounded: A Conversation with Alina Ștefǎnescu by Gabriela Denise Frank" written in white against Ștefǎnescu's author photo. To the left of these words is the book cover for My Heresies beneath a full Rumpus logo in white.
Dreaming of what could’ve been with a healthy JMo and Yeimar this tournament …
My #poetry book is now available for preorder from @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social! Check out my book Our Human Shores, which explores living in these trying times, existentialism, and the #ecopoetics of our world through a lyric exploration.
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🎀 UK/Ireland Cover Reveal and Preorder Link

Judas Goat (the87press edition) coming Oct 24, 2025
Pink and red book cover
My second book, Our Human Shores, will be out from @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social in July! Very stoked to share this book and its incredible cover. This book clocks in at 184 pages and has poems from 2017-2022 and I think you’ll find something in it you’ll love.
Picture of Our Human Shores book by Josh Fomon depicting a mountain and water with a solitary tree on fire.
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Don't miss Black Ocean's own Tessa Bolsover, Spencer Lee-Lenfield, and James Shea with an introduction by Janaka Stucky in person at Grolier Poetry Book Shop or via Zoom on June 25 at 7 PM ET. Sign up here: buff.ly/JHsaA9C
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Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February.

He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."
Maksim tells me he has developed a kinship with the transgender detainees in particular, who he says face brutal harassment from both guards and fellow inmates. “I’ve befriended several,” he says. “But here, especially for trans people… just disappear. One day they’re here, the next day, no one knows. Were they deported? Released? No one tells us.”

In that landscape of indifference, Maksim has found a kind of resistance in solidarity. He is part of a small community of queer detainees who take care of each other.

“I’d be happy if America wants to deport me,” he says. “Just not to Russia. Mexico would be fine.”
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I've had actual arguments with people about "Separating art from the artist." There's no separating this. Like Idk what to tell you, but trans people should be more important to you than like dobby the elf or whatever
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”

🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
J.K. Rowling uses 'Harry Potter' wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
Do you happen to know if this would pertain only to ST3 or ANY future light project?
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"The author's compensation is his copyright, & it cannot be limited to money or fame or tenure. It must consist of independence, the freedom to write as one believes, & to find people to communicate with. A bad copyright law can destroy that independence; a good one can help to preserve it."
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Ringer, 50 years before DOGE & AI slop: "...the combination of tyranny and technocracy could destroy not only freedom of expression and the quality of life but human culture itself."
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Barbara Ringer, LOC Register of Copyrights, to an audience of writers & publishers in 1975:

"If the users of the new communications technologies insist on using authors' works without giving some appropriate compensation in return, they will find that sooner or later there will be no authors..."
“President Donald Trump continued a firing spree at the Library of Congress on Saturday when he dismissed the top copyright official in the nation” bit.ly/43amMei
Trump fires top U.S. copyright official
Democrats are alleging foul play.
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Omg! Best of luck, let me know if you need anything!
Congrats!!! Such a cool undertaking!
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Delighted to be a part of this mayhem💜🌺 Yes, that's TERRY DACTYL in the middle, out on magical November 11, oh my👠💥💫
Introducing our Fall 2025 season replete with iconic poets, Nobel Prize-winning translators, and our first book in French!
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