You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Shoutout to Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social for being amongst Itasca's top 10 titles for December 2025!

Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm... @twolinespress.com

Nice weekly roundup with @theborderchronicle.bsky.social's Melissa Del Bosque and Caroline Tracey, with a mention of my new poetry collection, Southwest Reconstruction. substack.com/@melissadelb...

"You have to learn to write when you don't want to." @raquefella.bsky.social answers 10 questions from @pw.org about the writing process behind their debut poetry collection Southwest Reconstruction, out now. Read the full interview here: www.pw.org/content/ten_...

Such a privilege to be edited by AC. Gracias por todo, compa!

It has been a gift to see @raquefella.bsky.social nurture this collection of landscapes, loss, tenderness, and a yawp into the ethereal futures we must imagine. Order two copies, one for you and one for your beloved: www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...

“You have to learn to write when you don’t feel like it.” In today's #TenQuestions, @raquefella.bsky.social shares an inside look at the writing process of their debut poetry collection, Southwest Reconstruction out now from @noemipress.bsky.social. Read more: at.pw.org/10qRG

Just got my author copies of ⚡️Southwest Reconstruction⚡️, my poetry debut with @noemipress.bsky.social, out tomorrow, Dec 2. 10 years in the making, y'all. Find it at an online bookstore near you.

Christopher Knight's @knightlat.bsky.social's last column for the LA Times! 🫡 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Are you ready for our final release of the year? You don’t want to miss Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social, a “lyrical, elegiac, fiercely alive and existing at the cultural intersections of a settler mestizaje,” out December 2!

From Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social, out tomorrow!

Noemi reading TONIGHT at 7PM at Wave Archive in Tucson! Featuring Poetry Editor @dianaarterian.bsky.social, Executive Director @sargzem.bsky.social, and authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social, @raquefella.bsky.social, @jdpluecker.bsky.social, Claire Hong, and @faridmatuk.bsky.social

My profile on beloved poet Richard Siken is up at Poetry Foundation. Hope you'll check it out! www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/173...

New interview up Poets dot org poets.org/text/enjambm...

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

My ACT UP LA Oral History Project co-producers in conversation with journalist Maddy Castigan. One of my photos is included in this piece.

Poets. Always.

I organized 3 L.A. OMNIBUS events for the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. Save the dates: March 13, March 27, and April 24. First up: TREN AL SUR, feat. CAROLINA MIRANDA! Read more here ⤵️ cap.ucla.edu/event/la-omn...

This program for the TUMBADOS SYMPOSIUM looks AMAZING. LA 🤝 NYC, baby. (presented by Storefront for Art and Architecture and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union). Míralo! storefront.nyc/program/tumb...

I spoke with NPR/Las Cruces (KRWG-fm) reporter @scottbrocato.bsky.social ahead of my reading tomorrow at NMSU. A tinely chat, check it out: www.krwg.org/krwg-news/20...

If you haven't done so, get thee a protonmail account now. Going to pull myself from Google's saltwater taffy grip by the end of this week/month if it's the last thing I do...

I could really use a Costco-branded photo-sharing platform where I can stay in touch w/friends and let folks know when I'm reading poetry in public, hbu?

I'm the co-curator of Scientia Sexualis, an exhibition at ICA LA (up til March 2). This exhibition features a number of works by artists who confront scientific racism and the exploitation/abuse of black people in the history of medicine—King Cobra, Wangechi Mutu, and Cauleen Smith. bit.ly/40PH9xr

I got hacked and locked out of my Twitter account, an energetic cesspool I once enjoyed wading in but alas...thankful to find my brood, my ilk, my fellow travelers here 🩵🌫🩵