Jonathan Everitt
@jonathaneveritt.bsky.social
freelance writer | poet | Bennington MFA '20 | Rochester, N.Y.
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"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"
- from Ilya Kaminsky's poem, "A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to a Neck"
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"
- from Ilya Kaminsky's poem, "A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to a Neck"
Good Q&A with a longtime City Lights staffer directly connected to the Beats. Intergenerational memory matters.🖤
"Sometimes you had to be alone with your thoughts and maybe a copy of Lunch Poems (1964), while you were on the subway or killing time at a job. The Beats had a kind of popularity that writers, and especially poets, don’t really achieve anymore."—Garrett Caples, editor at City Lights bit.ly/4555gK3
Interview #48: Garrett Caples
City Lights editor on Beat legacy
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December 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Good Q&A with a longtime City Lights staffer directly connected to the Beats. Intergenerational memory matters.🖤
Bloomfield-based startup Finger Foods Farm, whose products and their ingredients come from across the Finger Lakes region, recently won the Audience Choice Award at Grow-NY 2025.
rochesterbeacon.com/2025/12/15/m...
rochesterbeacon.com/2025/12/15/m...
Making soup with a Finger Lakes flavor - Rochester Beacon
Bloomfield-based startup Finger Foods Farm, whose products and their ingredients come from across the Finger Lakes region, recently won the Audience Choice Award at Grow-NY 2025.
rochesterbeacon.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Rob Reiner was a brilliant artist who left a lasting, positive impact on American culture. My heart goes out to his loved ones. Please center him and his wife today in the conversation about this heartbreaking story.
December 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Rob Reiner was a brilliant artist who left a lasting, positive impact on American culture. My heart goes out to his loved ones. Please center him and his wife today in the conversation about this heartbreaking story.
Readers, check it out! 🏳️🌈
🌈📖 2026 OFFICIAL BOOK SELECTION
Each year, the official book selections for Rochester LGBTQ+ Together’s Rainbow Reading Club are selected by you, our rainbow readers! Now is the time to nominate up to three books by LGBTQ+ authors and/or with LGBTQ+ content to read in 2026.
Each year, the official book selections for Rochester LGBTQ+ Together’s Rainbow Reading Club are selected by you, our rainbow readers! Now is the time to nominate up to three books by LGBTQ+ authors and/or with LGBTQ+ content to read in 2026.
December 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Readers, check it out! 🏳️🌈
Extraordinary prose poem.
I’m so glad I stopped by my school mailbox on my way out for winter break, because in it was the current issue of @rattlepoetry.bsky.social and on the first page this extraordinary prose poem By Aman Alam 🩵 What a beautiful way to begin four luxurious weeks of reading whatever the hell I want.
December 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Extraordinary prose poem.
Spoiler alert: They're going to lie about economic data every month, every quarter. You don't fire statisticians who deliver bad news and threaten the Fed Chair if you're looking to be truthful.
December 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Spoiler alert: They're going to lie about economic data every month, every quarter. You don't fire statisticians who deliver bad news and threaten the Fed Chair if you're looking to be truthful.
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Well the last Bearded Bards of BlueSky reading of the year is in the books. In total, the series has raised $3,147 for @translifeline.org!
Thanks to all the amazing Bards and especially to the attendees who were wonderful audience members and generous supporters of this great cause.
Thanks to all the amazing Bards and especially to the attendees who were wonderful audience members and generous supporters of this great cause.
The Bearded Bards of BlueSky are back!!!!
Join us online for two readings featuring stellar lineups of amazing poets and writers to raise funds for @translifeline.org.
Check out the website for details (including zoom registration link):
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Join us online for two readings featuring stellar lineups of amazing poets and writers to raise funds for @translifeline.org.
Check out the website for details (including zoom registration link):
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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This Saturday is the last day to get your order in!
Festival merch now available!
ONLINE | DECEMBER 4-13
This is our full inventory! When something is gone, it’s gone!
IN-PERSON | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 (limited stock) at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social starting at 7pm. (Includes eyeball ornaments from 2019!)
🎁 www.anomalyfilmfest.com/shop 🎁
ONLINE | DECEMBER 4-13
This is our full inventory! When something is gone, it’s gone!
IN-PERSON | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 (limited stock) at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social starting at 7pm. (Includes eyeball ornaments from 2019!)
🎁 www.anomalyfilmfest.com/shop 🎁
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Reposted by Jonathan Everitt
“I have a head for beeswax and a bod for sin.”
why don't we replace the word 'business' with 'beeswax' in more contexts
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“I have a head for beeswax and a bod for sin.”
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We are thrilled to announce this year's selected manuscript for the Blessing the Boats Selections: Jordan E. Franklin's MAKE IT TO THE END (OF THE MOVIE), selected by Evie Shockley!
#Boaeditions #poetry #poetrycollection #poetrycommunity #blessingtheboats #BTBSelection
#Boaeditions #poetry #poetrycollection #poetrycommunity #blessingtheboats #BTBSelection
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Erica Baum reimagines and repurposes everyday printed materials to create poetic and imaginative works of art, which are now on exhibit at the George Eastman Museum.
rochesterbeacon.com/2025/12/12/t...
rochesterbeacon.com/2025/12/12/t...
The poetry of word and image - Rochester Beacon
Erica Baum reimagines and repurposes everyday printed materials to create poetic and imaginative works of art, which are now on exhibit at the George Eastman Museum.
rochesterbeacon.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Timeline cleanse 🖤
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Timeline cleanse 🖤
Dr. Valenti has been a powerful champion for treating and preventing HIV/AIDS for years. Rochester is lucky to have him. Congrats, doc! #RochesterNY
www.whec.com/top-news/dr-...
www.whec.com/top-news/dr-...
Dr. William Valenti, Rochester AIDS researcher, receives New York State's highest civilian honor
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Dr. William Valenti, a prominent figure in Rochester’s medical community, received the New York State Liberty Medal and the key to the city. The honors were presented at Trillium Hea...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Dr. Valenti has been a powerful champion for treating and preventing HIV/AIDS for years. Rochester is lucky to have him. Congrats, doc! #RochesterNY
www.whec.com/top-news/dr-...
www.whec.com/top-news/dr-...
Reposted by Jonathan Everitt
Senators should have the same health care as their constituents.
December 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Senators should have the same health care as their constituents.
Love to see it.🖤
Great crowd tonight for the poetry open mic featuring Hy-Deia Elwadi
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Love to see it.🖤
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Hype each other up as often as possible.
If you like someone’s work, as a fan or a peer, tell them. (This is how so many of best relationships began!)
It will always catch them at a good moment. Because rejections are hard. Making art is hard.
Tell people when you like things. It matters.
If you like someone’s work, as a fan or a peer, tell them. (This is how so many of best relationships began!)
It will always catch them at a good moment. Because rejections are hard. Making art is hard.
Tell people when you like things. It matters.
December 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Consolidation of the oligarchy.
In broad daylight.
In broad daylight.
Paramount launches a hostile $108 billion bid to snatch Warner from Netflix www.theverge.com/news/839813/...
Paramount launches a hostile $108 billion bid to snatch Warner from Netflix
It’s not over yet.
www.theverge.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Consolidation of the oligarchy.
In broad daylight.
In broad daylight.
Have a good and gentle weekend.🖤
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Tori Amos - Pink and Glitter
YouTube video by ToriAmosVEVO
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December 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Have a good and gentle weekend.🖤
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Reposted by Jonathan Everitt
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
In broad daylight.
According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In broad daylight.
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Or as a copy editor would put it:
She can block me only once.
She can block me only once.
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Roc Holiday Village opens today. For small businesses, it gives them a chance to promote their brand. Hear from one business owner who has sold at the holiday village since its first year. https://www.whec.com/top-news/small-businesses-gearing-up-for-friday-kickoff-of-roc-holiday-village/
'It gives us brand awareness'; Small businesses gear up for kickoff of Roc Holiday Village
The holiday season has arrived. Roc Holiday Village is set to open on Friday afternoon, bringing shopping, food, ice skating, visits with Santa, and more to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park.
www.whec.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
My statement on the way forward. A brief thread.
As far as holding criminals in the current administration accountable, if we’re ever able to throw them out and reclaim the federal government, that's part of the equation. But it’s not enough.
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As far as holding criminals in the current administration accountable, if we’re ever able to throw them out and reclaim the federal government, that's part of the equation. But it’s not enough.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My statement on the way forward. A brief thread.
As far as holding criminals in the current administration accountable, if we’re ever able to throw them out and reclaim the federal government, that's part of the equation. But it’s not enough.
/1
As far as holding criminals in the current administration accountable, if we’re ever able to throw them out and reclaim the federal government, that's part of the equation. But it’s not enough.
/1
Oh, this is a good one!
I was going to counterpropose "Name a book, play, or film that's never been turned into a stage musical that should be and might actually be good," but just about everything one can think of has been musicalized somewhere or other, including (my first thoughts) Mapp and Lucia and Portrait of Jennie.
today's musical theater parlor game:
Name a book, play, or film already adapted into a stage musical that you'd like to see someone take another, entirely new shot at.
As is traditional, I'll go first, plus I've got two:
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• I Remember Mama
Name a book, play, or film already adapted into a stage musical that you'd like to see someone take another, entirely new shot at.
As is traditional, I'll go first, plus I've got two:
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• I Remember Mama
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Oh, this is a good one!
Oh no! We can't have this. Please give Susan (from my hometown Ra Cha Cha) a warm Bluesky welcome (and follow)! bsky.app/profile/susa...
All I hear is my own echo.
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM