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Genevieve DeGuzman
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Poet & writer based in Portland, OR. Tin House Workshop. StoryStudio. Oregon Lit Fellowship. KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (out 3.2026, JackLeg Pres). PRE-ORDER on Bookshop.org & Amazon. Links here: https://genevievedeguzman.carbonmade.com/karaoke
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#caturday splits and toe bean stretches
Cat in a compromising pose doing the splits, legs on either side Close up of raised back leg and her hairy toe beans
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Fun Fact: KARAOKE is an 8X8 inch square meant to evoke a vinyl album. What music genre? you ask. Some poems feel melancholy punk or flex power ballad. Some go 90s Björk. In any case, it will look pretty sweet on your bookshelf.

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Book flyer for KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, a poetry collection releasing 3.16.2026. Crazy gradient pink to yellow to complement the lit dynamite illustration in the cover art. Pre-orders are available on Bookshop (yay) and Amazon (boo).
November 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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✨ Support small press authors. Some Bookshop.org recommendations:

Chloe Clark, EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE
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Taylor Byas, RESTING BITCH FACE
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Michelle Peñaloza, ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS

Asa Drake, MAYBE THE BODY
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Book cover for EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE (stories) by Chloe N. Clark Book cover for RESTING BITCH FACE (poems) by Taylor Byas Book cover for ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS by Michelle Peñaloza Book cover for MAYBE THE BODY (poems) by Asa Drake
November 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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In Sonoma at the Poet’s Corner Book Shop, the cutest edge of the world bookstore, with KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (pulled up on my phone). Who wants to read here with me in 2026?
Genevieve stands in front of the Poet's Corner Book Shop, a bookstore on the Sonoma coast. She holds her phone with a picture of Karaoke at the End of the World pulled up.
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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BOOM. ⚡️🧨 Consider a pre-order! My debut collection explores grief for our mothers and ourselves.💥The vibe: end times in the multiverse, tender apocalypses, music, the extinct, ancient, alien, and animal. A bit speculative, a bit strange. Links in bio & here genevievedeguzman.carbonmade.com/karaoke
Cover for Karaoke at the End of the World, a debut poetry collection by Genevieve DeGuzman, out from JackLeg Press in March 2026. Cover is an illustration of a lit stick of dynamite and rays of light emanating around it with frenetic energy. Pink and orange and beige yellow. Links here: https://genevievedeguzman.carbonmade.com/karaoke
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Reunited and it feels so good. Dropped by HOCUS Live for the PBF Cover to Cover series and read with local poet/writer besties, Andrea Deeken & Theresa Tran. We managed to channel Moon, Tower, & Fool energy for the night's Major Arcana theme, helped with some hot toddies. #pdxbookfest
Selfie of Andrea Deeken, Theresa Tran, and Genevieve DeGuzman. We read at HOCUS Live, a reading series in Portland held at the Rose City Book Pub that emphasizes poetry and prose and literary games and community. Theresa Tran, Genevieve DeGuzman, and Andrea Deeken squeeze onto a bench at the Rose City Book Pub behind our hot toddies and HOCUS Live programs. Shelf of books lines the wall behind us.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Pre-game this weekend’s #PDXBookFest. Come by Rose City Book Pub on NE Fremont, 7pm TONIGHT 11/7 for some tarot-themed poetry & prose and literary games with local writers. Hosted by HOCUS as part of the Cover to Cover series. #PBF25
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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🚨 📙 My forthcoming book has a cover! I hear dynamite gets lit once you start reading. 🧨

The one-and-only @taylorbyas.bsky.social was my editor and @simonemuenchie.bsky.social brought me into the @jacklegpress.bsky.social fold. ✨

Goes boom on 3.16.2026. More info coming soon!
Cover art for Karaoke at the End of the World, a debut poetry collection by Genevieve DeGuzman, out from JackLeg Press in March 2026. Cover is an illustration of a lit stick of dynamite and rays of light emanating around it with frenetic energy. Pink and orange and beige yellow. Pre-order details coming soon.
October 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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A rain soaked #caturday in Portland. No outdoor time. Beezy decides to rage nap instead.
Tuxedo cat giving her owner the side eye. Cat is curled up on a blanket, about to rage nap. It’s raining out and she’s stuck inside.
October 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Two little blooms of joy
Close up of a Zebra plant showing off two flower blooms. Bright yellow, stacked in petal layers like a pagoda. Making her owner very happy
October 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Readings + music at The Writer's Block this Saturday, 10/11, 5-8pm. Some of Portland's best poets are reading. ✨

#pdxpoetry
October 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Umm, as warzone-y as it gets in Portland these days.

Sorry, King Magat, we're most out here eating açai bowls, doing park yoga, reading books, and riding our bikes/unicycles.
Picture of the Unipiper, a Portland-based performance artist whose work regularly combines unicycling with playing the (flaming) bagpipes and wearing a Darth Vader helmet. A Portland staple. Picture of the Unipiper riding across a parking lot with the sign Keep Portland Weird in the background. His bagpipes are shooting flames.
September 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Houseplant love. Soil refresh, leaf wipe and polish (!), gnat traps, snazzy new pots, and grow lights. ☺️
Living room with an array of large mature houseplants including calatheas, diffenbachias, alocasias, philodendrons, rabbit footed ferns, stromanthes Mature Alocasia houseplant with deep green velvet leaves in a pedestal footed pot with brown polka dot patterns
September 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Thank you to everyone who came out!
audience at reading for Michelle Peñaloza's book launch. Genevieve DeGuzman reads as the opener! Bookstore Bishop & Wilde is packed. Praise to all lovers of poetry audience at reading for Michelle Peñaloza's book launch. Genevieve DeGuzman reads as the opener! Bookstore Bishop & Wilde is packed. Praise to all lovers of poetry.
September 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Readings are always such a balm for the soul. So lucky to have been a part of this all-Pinoy poetry gathering at Bishop & Wilde. 💕🥰 🙏🏼
Bishop & Wilde bookstore sidewalk chalkboard announcing readings for the night Genevieve DeGuzman at the mic reading her poetry set at Bishop & Wilde. Poets Christopher Rose, Michelle Peñaloza, and Genevieve DeGuzman standing together in a cute group shot after their reading at Bishop & Wilde bookstore
September 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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7pm, TONIGHT at Bishop & Wilde celebrating Michelle Peñaloza and her latest collection ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS (Persea Books). Read the title poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

#pdxpoetry
September 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Two weeks from now on Thursday 9/18 come hear poet Michelle Peñaloza read from her newest collection ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS. Winner of the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award and the James Laughlin Award. We’ll be at Bishop & Wilde in NW Portland. ✨🙌🏼💜
Flyer for a poetry reading featuring Michelle Peñaloza and her latest collection ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS
September 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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#caturday successfully unlocked
August 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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The #StoryBoardFest25 Fellows Reading at the packed @roscoebooks.bsky.social earlier this month was such a lovely event. I had a blast sharing, as you can tell. To my fellow Fellows, I'm in awe to be in your company. (Thank you to @anandalima.bsky.social for the photos.) ✨🙏🏼❤️
Group photo of the 2025 StoryBoard Fellows at Roscoe Books in Chicago IL. Writers stand in an alcove with the a painted sign above that reads: Get Lost in a Book! The fellows are: Kat Tang, Beth Uznis Johnson, Lisa Low, Dionne Ford, Genevieve DeGuzman, Ashley Honeysett, and Lisa Williamson Rosenberg. Photo of the audience at the 2025 StoryBoard Fellows reading at Roscoe Books. Genevieve DeGuzman (me!) standing and speaking at the mic at Roscoe Books. She read poems from Karaoke at the End of the World, out March 2026. Close up of Genevieve DeGuzman at the mic during her reading at Roscoe Books. She's over the moon to be there.
August 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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✨ I'll be at the StoryBoard 2025 Fellows Reading next Thursday at Roscoe Books. If you're in Chicago, come hear us read. Tasters of excellent poetry, CNF, and fiction promised. ⚡
Flyer of the StoryBoard Fellows Reading at Roscoe Books in Chicago on 8/14, 6:30pm. Features a graphic of a microphone stand and pictures of the fellows reading including Kat Tang, Lisa Low, Beth Uznis Johnson, Dionne Ford, Genevieve DeGuzman, Ashley Honeysett, Lisa Williamson Rosenberg.
August 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Fellow GTWO alum @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social is launching her collection DEAD GIRL CAMEO on 8/5. Mark your calendar! DGC covers girlhood, Black femininity, femme friendship, queerness. ✨ ✨ Whitney Houston, Aaliyah, Billie Holiday, Lisa “Left Eye” make their cameos. Get link here: bit.ly/DGCLaunch
celebrating the release of m. mick powell's debut collection, DEAD Poster for the virtual launch of DEAD GIRL CAMEO by m. mick powell on 8/5. Includes cover of the book and photos of special guests fellow poets Brittany Rogers, Jae Nichelle, Destiny Hemphill, and Dr. Taylor Byas. Link to sign up is https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnIfzXoyIQIKmuPqE0p7MThIqte4XrMrSaN3uTJH_RPZICnA/viewform
July 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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It’s been while so it’s montage #caturday
Salt bae type hand gesture to pet a tuxedo gremlin cat Overhead picture of cat looking back and up. It looks like her head is on backwards Close up of a cat not having it today.
June 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Today was our last class in the Get the Word Out program with @pw.org. It was a standout and featured poet extraordinaire @victoriachang.bsky.social, who chatted with us about writing life and navigating that first collection. Shout out to Morgan LaRocca, our mentor! Forever changed. ❤️
The 2025 Poetry Fellows in the Get the Word Out Program with Poets & Writers: Adedayo Agarau, Genevieve DeGuzman, Isabella DeSendi, Alison Lubar, Nick Martino, Yamini Pathak, mick powell, Maya Salameh, Kelsey L. Smoot, and Bernardo Wade
June 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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My poetry cohort in the @pw.org Get the Word Out program finishes up and gets to reads for you! This THURSDAY, 6/26, 8pm ET. Come hear us read over Zoom:

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Flyer for the Get the Word Out poetry cohort reading this Thursday, 6/26 @8pm ET. Get the Zoom link at at.pw.org/GTWOreading25
June 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Reading the "Freak" themed issue of lit journal Puerto Del Sol.
And my freaky (love) poem “That One Time the SAW Movie Taught Me About Love” is in it! Thank you to poetry editor Madelyn Parker & managing editor Anna 'Dunes' Snider! 🖤✨

So worth it: www.puertodelsol.org/print
Cover of the "Freak" issue of Puerto Del Sol alongside a personal, handwritten note from the editor for my contributor copy. The cover art is the downward shot of a deep well with monstrous faces looking up from the bottom. Drawn/sketched original art by Evangeline Gallagher. back cover of the "Freak" issue of Puerto Del Sol. Includes the names of contributors. Editor's introduction of the "Freak" issue. Excerpt: "This themed section of Puerto Del Sol contains work that grapples with the origins, adaptations, reclamations, and mutations of freak. The following writers reach toward the unexpected and the bizarre, unfolding against perceptions." First page shot of my poem "That One Time the SAW Movie Taught Me About Love" (p. 166 in the "Freak" issue of Puerto Del Sol)
May 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM