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Jose Padua Better Watch His Language

@JosePaduaWriter

Jose Padua - poetry, non-fiction, fiction, photography. Author of A Short History of Monsters (Miller Williams Prize 2019)

 Washington, DC
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Joined April 2009
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At my substack today, TWO BRIEF PIECES IN WHICH THE OLD CEDAR TAVERN IN NEW YORK IS THE MAJOR SOURCE OF INTOXICATION. One poem, one essay josepadua.substack.com/p/two…
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At my substack today, A HUNDRED AND ONE YEARS FOR MY MOTHER AND EVERYONE WHO HAS DONE SOMETHING RIGHT FOR A CERTAIN MEASURE OF TIME. Reflections on my mother’s birthday, the regime, and the movement of planetary bodies. josepadua.substack.com/p/a-h… bit.ly/4x90dnp
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Dazed and Confused: How Disco Changed My Life open.substack.com/pub/josepa…
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For Fathers’ Day this year: My Father Remembers Many Legends While I’ve Forgotten Nearly Everything I Knew About Math And Chemistry. At my substack: bit.ly/4oEfwlf
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My story about the birth of The Fugs—text together with video of the story as read at No Bar in 1993—at my substack. Don’t even bother to ask—this is exactly how it happened, X-Ray Spex see-thru glasses and all. bit.ly/4eCXOel
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A poem, now at my Short Histories substack. At the link below. josepadua.substack.com/p/wha…
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MERRYHAPPYHOLIHANNUKWANZAACHRISTMAS: A MIX IN SOLIDARITY WITH ANY AND ALL ANTI-FASCISTS FOR THE YEAR 2025 AND BEYOND My holiday mix is up. It’s seasonal AF this year. bit.ly/4p5ZwXB
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In these days of certain madness and uncertain escape, here’s to getting away—getting away from it, with it, in spite of it. And, sometimes, just staying and fighting it. My poem is at Vox Populi today (thanks, Michael Simms!) wp.me/p4xqzG-qBP
Jose Padua: Driving Out of Town on the Day Before What Would Have Been My Mother’s 93rd Birthday

Jose Padua: Driving Out of Town on the Day Before What Would Have Been My Mother’s 93rd Birthday

she would have loved the blue and yellow tones of this early evening Pennsylvania sky as busy as a symphony over the landscape of this small town so far from Asia

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I have a poem up at Vox Populi today. Thanks, Michael Simms! wp.me/p4xqzG-qBF
Jose Padua: The Summer of Rock and Other Fragile Ecstasies

Jose Padua: The Summer of Rock and Other Fragile Ecstasies

But it was also another summer of war, the way just about every summer is a summer of war.

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Happy to be included in the Best American Poetry for 2025 among poets whose work I have admired for a long time (Bob Hicok, Sharon Olds, David Trinidad, etc), a poet helped make my work more widely known (Billy Collins, who chose me for the 2019 Miller Williams Prize) and more
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Pat Padua@PatPadua14 Jun 2025
Congratulations to my brother @JosePaduaWriter, selected as one of the Best American Poets of 2025!
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A poem for Mother's Day 2025
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A poem is like a billionaire in space in that you wish it would just go all the way out there and not come back.
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Today's poem and snake forecast....
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I have some poems in the new Gargoyle online. Thanks to Rick Peabody for having me! gargoylemagazine.com/jose-pa…
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Jose Padua Back to Gargoyle Online Like Flies on Sherbert Yesterday two fighter jets flew across a Sunday afternoon’s blue skies. Another day the sound of sirens and helicopters pierced an early ev…

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The National Anthem I am writing this because my world is being made uninhabitable by assholes.... bit.ly/4ibeDMn
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Despite all the recent actions of the Trump/Musk regime, the Democrats have yet to respond with a truly equal and opposite reaction. Indeed, it does seem that the only things the Democrats are really defying are the laws of physics.
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A poem for Super Bowl weekend
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Every revolution begins with a road trip; unfortunately for the MAGAs, their revolution began when they took a trip up their own assholes.
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MERRYHAPPYHOLIHANNUKWANZAACHRISTMAS: A MIX IN DEFIANCE OF ALL THESE HORRIBLE ITERATIONS IN 2024 Infinity has a swagger, it's looking down at us now like the biggest hawk tuah that ever was bit.ly/4iS5dqs
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