Joy Amina Garnett
@joyamina.bsky.social
The Bee Kingdom (Gaudy Boy 2026)
2024 First Pages Prize Longlist;
Yaddo fellow; Anonymous Was A Woman awardee; Art Director: Evergreen Review, SUSPECT journal
https://linktr.ee/joygarnett
NYer in LA 🌴
2024 First Pages Prize Longlist;
Yaddo fellow; Anonymous Was A Woman awardee; Art Director: Evergreen Review, SUSPECT journal
https://linktr.ee/joygarnett
NYer in LA 🌴
Pinned
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“*
to wait
for peace
in times
of force
to cut oneself
a treaty
*
unreliable
your tales are tall
the mental lift
a pilot . . .”
New at Evergreen: a selection from “more than anything” by Africa Wayne. Art by Maya Deren. evergreenreview.com/more-than-an...
to wait
for peace
in times
of force
to cut oneself
a treaty
*
unreliable
your tales are tall
the mental lift
a pilot . . .”
New at Evergreen: a selection from “more than anything” by Africa Wayne. Art by Maya Deren. evergreenreview.com/more-than-an...
From "more than anything"
Evergreen Review
evergreenreview.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:37 PM
“*
to wait
for peace
in times
of force
to cut oneself
a treaty
*
unreliable
your tales are tall
the mental lift
a pilot . . .”
New at Evergreen: a selection from “more than anything” by Africa Wayne. Art by Maya Deren. evergreenreview.com/more-than-an...
to wait
for peace
in times
of force
to cut oneself
a treaty
*
unreliable
your tales are tall
the mental lift
a pilot . . .”
New at Evergreen: a selection from “more than anything” by Africa Wayne. Art by Maya Deren. evergreenreview.com/more-than-an...
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“ ‘Fielding’s Hollow’ is an intense, paranoiac live-action role-playing experience for sixteen players, set in a fictional mining town in 1890s New England.
You can only play it once in your life.”
Up in DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Beautiful Suffering” by Alice Maynwaring. evergreenreview.com/read/das-vid...
You can only play it once in your life.”
Up in DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Beautiful Suffering” by Alice Maynwaring. evergreenreview.com/read/das-vid...
[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] Beautiful Suffering
Evergreen Review
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February 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
“ ‘Fielding’s Hollow’ is an intense, paranoiac live-action role-playing experience for sixteen players, set in a fictional mining town in 1890s New England.
You can only play it once in your life.”
Up in DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Beautiful Suffering” by Alice Maynwaring. evergreenreview.com/read/das-vid...
You can only play it once in your life.”
Up in DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Beautiful Suffering” by Alice Maynwaring. evergreenreview.com/read/das-vid...
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Why are we here, you ask?
This. This is why we are here.
This. This is why we are here.
Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.
February 4, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Why are we here, you ask?
This. This is why we are here.
This. This is why we are here.
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They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas.
For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare.
www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare.
www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
Walz demands DHS stop detaining Minnesota children
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Walz demanded details about how many Minnesota kids are in detention facilities.
www.startribune.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:35 AM
They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas.
For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare.
www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare.
www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
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Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever.
Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
February 3, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever.
Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
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Imagine seeing this and thinking, after Renee Good and Alex Pretti, that what ICE needs is more funding for surveillance equipment like body cams.
ABOLISH IS THE FLOOR.
ABOLISH IS THE FLOOR.
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Imagine seeing this and thinking, after Renee Good and Alex Pretti, that what ICE needs is more funding for surveillance equipment like body cams.
ABOLISH IS THE FLOOR.
ABOLISH IS THE FLOOR.
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Until 9/11, you could cross into Canada from Detroit with a driver's license. You're supposed to show your birth certificate or passport, but 9 times out of 10, they'd wave you through.
9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.
9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.
For a very long time you did not need a passport to cross back and forth to Mexico and Canada. I am Gen X and El Paso folks my age remember crossing to drink in Mexico for the night and then coming back home. There are families who continued living in the same place when the border moved.
The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.
February 1, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Until 9/11, you could cross into Canada from Detroit with a driver's license. You're supposed to show your birth certificate or passport, but 9 times out of 10, they'd wave you through.
9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.
9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.
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The opening of “Melania” seems to be going well.
January 27, 2026 at 3:10 AM
The opening of “Melania” seems to be going well.
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If you haven't been reading Fox News, take a peek at how they are spinning the death of Alex Pretti and the general turn-out of Minnesotans. It's all a Marxist-Leninist, socialist network. www.foxnews.com/politics/far...
The far-left network that helped put Alex Pretti in harm's way, then made him a martyr
Encrypted chats show activists tracked ICE agents using a sophisticated database before the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. They then used it to mobilize agitators.
www.foxnews.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:32 PM
If you haven't been reading Fox News, take a peek at how they are spinning the death of Alex Pretti and the general turn-out of Minnesotans. It's all a Marxist-Leninist, socialist network. www.foxnews.com/politics/far...
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Reminder that the Trump administration is purposely employing these brutal tactics to inflame tensions in Minneapolis to test out how far the Courts will let them go in usurping state power before the next Midterm election.
I wrote about it here: shero.substack.com/p/what-is-tr...
I wrote about it here: shero.substack.com/p/what-is-tr...
What is Trump Really Threatening with the Insurrection Act?
Following another shooting, Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, calling legal protestors "professional agitators and insurrectionists," but what can we really expect?
shero.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Reminder that the Trump administration is purposely employing these brutal tactics to inflame tensions in Minneapolis to test out how far the Courts will let them go in usurping state power before the next Midterm election.
I wrote about it here: shero.substack.com/p/what-is-tr...
I wrote about it here: shero.substack.com/p/what-is-tr...
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Originally published on 6/2/2020 (after the killing of George Floyd), this cartoon seems all too relevant again today.
January 26, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Originally published on 6/2/2020 (after the killing of George Floyd), this cartoon seems all too relevant again today.
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[stares directly into the camera]
![Ben Terris
@bterris
X.com
"[My father] had one problem," Trump said. "
He started getting, what do they call it?" He pointed to his forehead and looked to his press secretary for the word that escaped him.
"Alzheimer's," Leavitt said.
"Like an Alzheimer's thing," Trump said. "Well, I don't have it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:drfb2pdjlnsqkfgsoellcahm/bafkreiddfjrkrizv6r5szmevc7gl3bgwmcoub2i7ondb7cpnnqslhsjtvi@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 3:30 PM
[stares directly into the camera]
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Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."
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The Lemkin Institute, not mincing words:
"ICE and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are loyal agents of Nazis and white supremacists within the Republican Party."
"ICE and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are loyal agents of Nazis and white supremacists within the Republican Party."
January 25, 2026 at 4:56 AM
The Lemkin Institute, not mincing words:
"ICE and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are loyal agents of Nazis and white supremacists within the Republican Party."
"ICE and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are loyal agents of Nazis and white supremacists within the Republican Party."
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This #RebelBirds thing has really taken off. :)
Are you ready #Illinois, #Indiana, #Kentucky, #NorthCarolina, #Ohio, #Virginia, #WestVirginia ? Bold, watchful, and defiant, your state bird, the Northern Cardinal, has joined the #Resistance
RISE! RESIST! REBEL!
Are you ready #Illinois, #Indiana, #Kentucky, #NorthCarolina, #Ohio, #Virginia, #WestVirginia ? Bold, watchful, and defiant, your state bird, the Northern Cardinal, has joined the #Resistance
RISE! RESIST! REBEL!
January 23, 2026 at 6:45 PM
This #RebelBirds thing has really taken off. :)
Are you ready #Illinois, #Indiana, #Kentucky, #NorthCarolina, #Ohio, #Virginia, #WestVirginia ? Bold, watchful, and defiant, your state bird, the Northern Cardinal, has joined the #Resistance
RISE! RESIST! REBEL!
Are you ready #Illinois, #Indiana, #Kentucky, #NorthCarolina, #Ohio, #Virginia, #WestVirginia ? Bold, watchful, and defiant, your state bird, the Northern Cardinal, has joined the #Resistance
RISE! RESIST! REBEL!
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you // must have been sleeping so deeply to dream a river this wide
“There was a winter she slept here.
There was a snow that silenced even her
loud dreams with its quiet gathering.”
Up now: “Origins According to Stone Swimmer” and two more poems by @mgarrigan.bsky.social. Art by Mary Mattingly. evergreenreview.com/read/origins...
There was a snow that silenced even her
loud dreams with its quiet gathering.”
Up now: “Origins According to Stone Swimmer” and two more poems by @mgarrigan.bsky.social. Art by Mary Mattingly. evergreenreview.com/read/origins...
Origins According to Stone Swimmer and Other Poems
Evergreen Review
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January 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
you // must have been sleeping so deeply to dream a river this wide
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“I met the famous spinster Hepzibah Pyncheon, described by Nathaniel Hawthorne as so ancient and hopelessly decrepit when really she was only 60-something . . . I became obsessed with her . . . .”
—“HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25” by Sibyl Kempson. evergreenreview.com/read/hexalog...
—“HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25” by Sibyl Kempson. evergreenreview.com/read/hexalog...
HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25
Evergreen Review
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January 25, 2026 at 8:48 PM
“I met the famous spinster Hepzibah Pyncheon, described by Nathaniel Hawthorne as so ancient and hopelessly decrepit when really she was only 60-something . . . I became obsessed with her . . . .”
—“HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25” by Sibyl Kempson. evergreenreview.com/read/hexalog...
—“HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25” by Sibyl Kempson. evergreenreview.com/read/hexalog...
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Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
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“In 2001, I found three large books of photographic proof sheets in a dumpster in Washington D.C. The pictures contained in these volumes document the inaugurations of presidents Nixon, Carter and Reagan.”
—A selection from Marc Ganzglass’s “D.C. Repro” series. evergreenreview.com/read/dc-repro/
—A selection from Marc Ganzglass’s “D.C. Repro” series. evergreenreview.com/read/dc-repro/
D.C. Repro
Evergreen Review
evergreenreview.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:12 AM
“In 2001, I found three large books of photographic proof sheets in a dumpster in Washington D.C. The pictures contained in these volumes document the inaugurations of presidents Nixon, Carter and Reagan.”
—A selection from Marc Ganzglass’s “D.C. Repro” series. evergreenreview.com/read/dc-repro/
—A selection from Marc Ganzglass’s “D.C. Repro” series. evergreenreview.com/read/dc-repro/
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A few new poems from my upcoming collection!!!
“There was a winter she slept here.
There was a snow that silenced even her
loud dreams with its quiet gathering.”
Up now: “Origins According to Stone Swimmer” and two more poems by @mgarrigan.bsky.social. Art by Mary Mattingly. evergreenreview.com/read/origins...
There was a snow that silenced even her
loud dreams with its quiet gathering.”
Up now: “Origins According to Stone Swimmer” and two more poems by @mgarrigan.bsky.social. Art by Mary Mattingly. evergreenreview.com/read/origins...
Origins According to Stone Swimmer and Other Poems
Evergreen Review
evergreenreview.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:12 PM
A few new poems from my upcoming collection!!!
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“As a natural man himself, a son of the blues, he undoubtedly needed a natural woman in his life in addition to my mother.”
New at Evergreen: “Son of a Natural Man” by Reggie Scott Young. Art by Hugh Mangum. evergreenreview.com/read/son-of-...
New at Evergreen: “Son of a Natural Man” by Reggie Scott Young. Art by Hugh Mangum. evergreenreview.com/read/son-of-...
Son of a Natural Man
Evergreen Review
evergreenreview.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:53 AM
“As a natural man himself, a son of the blues, he undoubtedly needed a natural woman in his life in addition to my mother.”
New at Evergreen: “Son of a Natural Man” by Reggie Scott Young. Art by Hugh Mangum. evergreenreview.com/read/son-of-...
New at Evergreen: “Son of a Natural Man” by Reggie Scott Young. Art by Hugh Mangum. evergreenreview.com/read/son-of-...