Josh Fomon
@burrowtongue.bsky.social
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
Pre-order: https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/our-human-shores
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my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)
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I have an extremely niche question related to post-WWII Cameroonian poetry & a writer name Jean Ikelle-Matiba. Is there anyone out there in our beautiful world who knows his work?
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I have an extremely niche question related to post-WWII Cameroonian poetry & a writer name Jean Ikelle-Matiba. Is there anyone out there in our beautiful world who knows his work?
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If you are old enough, you will remember the War on Terror version of this
Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
If you are old enough, you will remember the War on Terror version of this
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Here's interview with US citizen scanned by ICE's facial recognition tech. Walking home from gym, authorities come over. He says he's a citizen. Put him in car. Only release after scanning his face
“Flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society”
www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...
“Flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society”
www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...
How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.
www.404media.co
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Here's interview with US citizen scanned by ICE's facial recognition tech. Walking home from gym, authorities come over. He says he's a citizen. Put him in car. Only release after scanning his face
“Flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society”
www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...
“Flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society”
www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...
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A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
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As sad and exhausting as this deja vu is, I do think the way no one is actually falling for it is a testament to what satire and commentary from people like Jon Stewart can do. There's a whole generation of us raised on him calling BS on this and don't buy any of it for a second.
Trump is going old-school Iraq war with his Venezuela tactics, so Jon is going old-school Daily Show, too
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
As sad and exhausting as this deja vu is, I do think the way no one is actually falling for it is a testament to what satire and commentary from people like Jon Stewart can do. There's a whole generation of us raised on him calling BS on this and don't buy any of it for a second.
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The second issue of AUTOCORRECT is live. Thank you to these fabulous poets and thank for reading. Send me your poems!
www.autocorrectmag.com
www.autocorrectmag.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The second issue of AUTOCORRECT is live. Thank you to these fabulous poets and thank for reading. Send me your poems!
www.autocorrectmag.com
www.autocorrectmag.com
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Couldn’t agree more. Keep it simple and achievable!
1. Progress next phase of comp plan
2. Paint bus lanes
3. Eliminate parking mins citywide
4. Kill design review
5. Speed up housing permits
That’s a stout 4 years if you do all of these
1. Progress next phase of comp plan
2. Paint bus lanes
3. Eliminate parking mins citywide
4. Kill design review
5. Speed up housing permits
That’s a stout 4 years if you do all of these
I don't think Katie Wilson should "reopen" the Comp Plan. It's actually a really big gift that she doesn't have to touch the Comp Plan update, which was a dead weight around the Harrell Administration's leg. She can make zoning changes without fully reopening everything.
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Couldn’t agree more. Keep it simple and achievable!
1. Progress next phase of comp plan
2. Paint bus lanes
3. Eliminate parking mins citywide
4. Kill design review
5. Speed up housing permits
That’s a stout 4 years if you do all of these
1. Progress next phase of comp plan
2. Paint bus lanes
3. Eliminate parking mins citywide
4. Kill design review
5. Speed up housing permits
That’s a stout 4 years if you do all of these
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Sunday paper realness!!!💐 Yes, it's the 💫stunning review💫 of TERRY DACTYL by Trish Bendix, now in print in the New York Times Book Review!! "the book is a remarkably grounded look at what it means to be fully alive"💕💕💕💕
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Sunday paper realness!!!💐 Yes, it's the 💫stunning review💫 of TERRY DACTYL by Trish Bendix, now in print in the New York Times Book Review!! "the book is a remarkably grounded look at what it means to be fully alive"💕💕💕💕
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There will be a special Aase Berg night in Chicago in January. I will read with a bunch of Chicago writers to welcome my translation of Berg's AASE'S DEATH into the world.
Thanks to @neonpajamas.bsky.social for organizing, for foregrounding translation.
Thanks to @neonpajamas.bsky.social for organizing, for foregrounding translation.
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
There will be a special Aase Berg night in Chicago in January. I will read with a bunch of Chicago writers to welcome my translation of Berg's AASE'S DEATH into the world.
Thanks to @neonpajamas.bsky.social for organizing, for foregrounding translation.
Thanks to @neonpajamas.bsky.social for organizing, for foregrounding translation.
The holidays can be a contemplative time — so give my book Our Human Shores a chance?
Filled with meditations on life and living through disaster, this book is perfect for the holiday blues or a great gift for someone who is searching for deeper meaning.
#bookgiving #poetry #holidaygift #books
Filled with meditations on life and living through disaster, this book is perfect for the holiday blues or a great gift for someone who is searching for deeper meaning.
#bookgiving #poetry #holidaygift #books
Our Human Shores — Black Ocean
Our Human Shores explores living in the Anthropocene, the ecological disasters life faces, and the barriers and inequality society faces in trying to create a better and livable world.
www.blackocean.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The holidays can be a contemplative time — so give my book Our Human Shores a chance?
Filled with meditations on life and living through disaster, this book is perfect for the holiday blues or a great gift for someone who is searching for deeper meaning.
#bookgiving #poetry #holidaygift #books
Filled with meditations on life and living through disaster, this book is perfect for the holiday blues or a great gift for someone who is searching for deeper meaning.
#bookgiving #poetry #holidaygift #books
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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I DID NOT KNOW THAT !!!
Fun fact about ticketed events in Seattle! There is a tax on all* tickets and hotels sold in the city that goes to support arts and culture in the city, but there's one major carve out:
MEN'S SPORTS 🙃
MEN'S SPORTS 🙃
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I DID NOT KNOW THAT !!!
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Thank you, Federalist Society, for giving us a bench of jurists who believe that the emanations of 1789 have a greater claim to law than the laws passed by Congress and signed by the president.
JUST IN: A 2-1 panel of the D.C. Circuit rules that Trump may remove members of the NLRB or MSPB regardless of laws meant to shield them from removal without cause.
Majority: Rao (Trump), Katsas (Trump)
Dissent: Pan (Biden)
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Majority: Rao (Trump), Katsas (Trump)
Dissent: Pan (Biden)
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Thank you, Federalist Society, for giving us a bench of jurists who believe that the emanations of 1789 have a greater claim to law than the laws passed by Congress and signed by the president.
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What's the best book *review* you wrote, read, edited, or published this year? I'm rounding them up again for Lit Hub.
(Must have a 2025 pub date, no exceptions.)
(Must have a 2025 pub date, no exceptions.)
December 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
What's the best book *review* you wrote, read, edited, or published this year? I'm rounding them up again for Lit Hub.
(Must have a 2025 pub date, no exceptions.)
(Must have a 2025 pub date, no exceptions.)
“Hey, do you know the way to Roku City?”
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“Hey, do you know the way to Roku City?”
So fun! I published a ecopoetry book about the apocalypse in July. I think it’s really good and has a lot for everyone: www.blackocean.org/catalog1/our...
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
So fun! I published a ecopoetry book about the apocalypse in July. I think it’s really good and has a lot for everyone: www.blackocean.org/catalog1/our...
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from my review of OUR HUMAN SHORES by @burrowtongue.bsky.social (2025, @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social)
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
from my review of OUR HUMAN SHORES by @burrowtongue.bsky.social (2025, @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social)
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it's pretty incredible we are exempting construction sales tax on office to residential rehabs (not a great deal for downtown) - but not affordable housing, or community-led development like cohousing, coops, baugruppen, CLTs
harrell.seattle.gov/2025/02/11/s...
harrell.seattle.gov/2025/02/11/s...
Seattle Adopts Sales Tax Exemption to Encourage Office-to-Residential Conversions - Office of the Mayor
Seattle – Today, Mayor Bruce Harrell and Councilmember Mark Solomon celebrated the adoption of new legislation that will create a tax exemption for the conversion of underutilized commercial property ...
harrell.seattle.gov
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
it's pretty incredible we are exempting construction sales tax on office to residential rehabs (not a great deal for downtown) - but not affordable housing, or community-led development like cohousing, coops, baugruppen, CLTs
harrell.seattle.gov/2025/02/11/s...
harrell.seattle.gov/2025/02/11/s...
We need a New Deal style investment in our arts and artists.
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
We need a New Deal style investment in our arts and artists.
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What a lovely idea @annakornbluh.bsky.social ! My last book, FuturePanic, came out in 2021. It's been a minute in poetry world, but as they say, I just needed time to cook— which is to say...stay tuned :)
www.coimpress.com/books/future...
www.coimpress.com/books/future...
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What a lovely idea @annakornbluh.bsky.social ! My last book, FuturePanic, came out in 2021. It's been a minute in poetry world, but as they say, I just needed time to cook— which is to say...stay tuned :)
www.coimpress.com/books/future...
www.coimpress.com/books/future...
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It costs so little money to buy one book. And if you can’t afford the book, ask your library to get it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It costs so little money to buy one book. And if you can’t afford the book, ask your library to get it.
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"Beautiful and grotesque surrealist poetry. Sludgy secrets between sea floor abominations. This is Berg’s best collection since “With Deer”."
This is what someone on Goodreads wrote about Aase Berg's Aase's Death. It's out now from Black Ocean:
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
This is what someone on Goodreads wrote about Aase Berg's Aase's Death. It's out now from Black Ocean:
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
Aase's Death by Aase Berg, translated by Johannes Göransson — Black Ocean
One might expect a book by Aase Berg with the title Aase’s Death to be dark, and it is. You may also expect it to be parodic, and maybe it is that too. But if it’s parodic, it’s darkly parodic. A defi...
www.blackocean.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Beautiful and grotesque surrealist poetry. Sludgy secrets between sea floor abominations. This is Berg’s best collection since “With Deer”."
This is what someone on Goodreads wrote about Aase Berg's Aase's Death. It's out now from Black Ocean:
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
This is what someone on Goodreads wrote about Aase Berg's Aase's Death. It's out now from Black Ocean:
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
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Against this future, we tailor a bespoke love, nooks sewn in calamity.”
D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation.
Read the full review: tinylink.net/6Fcdn
D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation.
Read the full review: tinylink.net/6Fcdn
Residuum and Reclamation: On Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon
Our Human Shores (Black Ocean: 2025) is a dense yet lyrical examination of the limits and imperatives of human agency during the anthropocene. The book’s sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled p…
tinylink.net
October 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Against this future, we tailor a bespoke love, nooks sewn in calamity.”
D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation.
Read the full review: tinylink.net/6Fcdn
D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation.
Read the full review: tinylink.net/6Fcdn
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New review up at @variantlit.bsky.social! On OUR HUMAN SHORES by @burrowtongue.bsky.social (@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social), a "sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled poems" which "offers hope in ... human agency, despite the waves of damage now impacting our shared material realities."
Residuum and Reclamation: On Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon
Our Human Shores (Black Ocean: 2025) is a dense yet lyrical examination of the limits and imperatives of human agency during the anthropocene. The book’s sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled p…
variantlit.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
New review up at @variantlit.bsky.social! On OUR HUMAN SHORES by @burrowtongue.bsky.social (@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social), a "sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled poems" which "offers hope in ... human agency, despite the waves of damage now impacting our shared material realities."