Jane Rosenberg LaForge
@elrosenberglaforge.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, book reviewer, former adjunct professor, former journalist, blah blah blah blah blah
My #cat looks very presidential today, don't you think? #PresidentsDay
February 16, 2026 at 6:02 PM
My #cat looks very presidential today, don't you think? #PresidentsDay
Just thinkin' about #fascism and its sex scandals today. No reason. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6...
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February 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Just thinkin' about #fascism and its sex scandals today. No reason. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blomber...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_P...
www.contexttravel.com/stories/arti...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blomber...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_P...
www.contexttravel.com/stories/arti...
February 7, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Need to take time out from the destruction of the U.S. republic to thank @bblitarts.bsky.social for hosting @rknester.bsky.social and me yesterday for our double #poetry book launch. Thank you for a moment of respite. Hope we can do it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZpT...
January 25, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Need to take time out from the destruction of the U.S. republic to thank @bblitarts.bsky.social for hosting @rknester.bsky.social and me yesterday for our double #poetry book launch. Thank you for a moment of respite. Hope we can do it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZpT...
Concentrating on these pics of Zeus (gray tabby) and Apollo (orange creamsicle) at The Iliad #Bookstore yesterday while listening to repugnant legislators try to tear into Jack Smith today. #LosAngeles
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Concentrating on these pics of Zeus (gray tabby) and Apollo (orange creamsicle) at The Iliad #Bookstore yesterday while listening to repugnant legislators try to tear into Jack Smith today. #LosAngeles
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I'll be the opening act reading #poetry at @bblitarts.bsky.social Saturday January 24 at 3 pm for #poet @rknester.bsky.social 's book launch. Please join us! More info on the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/la-double-...
I'll be the opening act reading #poetry at @bblitarts.bsky.social Saturday January 24 at 3 pm for #poet @rknester.bsky.social 's book launch. Please join us! More info on the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/la-double-...
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
THIS IS A CORRECTION TO A PREVIOUS POST:
I'll be the opening act reading #poetry at @bblitarts.bsky.social Saturday January 24 at 3 pm for #poet @rknester.bsky.social 's book launch. Please join us! More info on the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/la-double-...
I'll be the opening act reading #poetry at @bblitarts.bsky.social Saturday January 24 at 3 pm for #poet @rknester.bsky.social 's book launch. Please join us! More info on the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/la-double-...
Happy Christmas to me and a bunch of other #poets! The anthology of every issue of Makeout Creek, a #litmag that published for 20 years, is available and my #poem "Allenwood" is inside! Buy your copy here: makeoutcreek.com/products/eve... & get a preview in the thumbnails below, and thank you!
December 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Happy Christmas to me and a bunch of other #poets! The anthology of every issue of Makeout Creek, a #litmag that published for 20 years, is available and my #poem "Allenwood" is inside! Buy your copy here: makeoutcreek.com/products/eve... & get a preview in the thumbnails below, and thank you!
My thanks to @nysoclib.bsky.social for including my #book of #poems, "The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated," in its list of work published by library members this year. Also included: my Broadstone Books press mate Ruth Kessler's "The Country of Elsewheres." Thanks for a wonderful gathering Dec. 16.
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My thanks to @nysoclib.bsky.social for including my #book of #poems, "The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated," in its list of work published by library members this year. Also included: my Broadstone Books press mate Ruth Kessler's "The Country of Elsewheres." Thanks for a wonderful gathering Dec. 16.
I hope you'll read my #book #review of Cris Mazza's #essay collection, "The Decade of Letting Things Go," in the new issue of The Shanghai Review. Find out about the magic Mazza works on ordinary words and the courage it takes to survive as a daughter, sister, colleague, and life partner.
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My thanks to Eleni Traganas for organizing a wonderful event at the Woodside/ @qplnyc.bsky.social #library last night for National I Love to Write Day, which included yours truly. Pictured: #poet David Dephy giving an inspiring #reading of his book, "Rays Were Never So Near as Now."
November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My thanks to Eleni Traganas for organizing a wonderful event at the Woodside/ @qplnyc.bsky.social #library last night for National I Love to Write Day, which included yours truly. Pictured: #poet David Dephy giving an inspiring #reading of his book, "Rays Were Never So Near as Now."
Thanks Wayne Kral for hosting First Floor Walk Up reading series last night @ One and One Bar in NYC. I'm the small gray lady in a black dress. Vincent Cuzena in the flowered shirt. Austin Alexis in blue jersey. Kral is in the sports coat with dark shirt. James Patrick Naughton in sports jacket.
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Thanks Wayne Kral for hosting First Floor Walk Up reading series last night @ One and One Bar in NYC. I'm the small gray lady in a black dress. Vincent Cuzena in the flowered shirt. Austin Alexis in blue jersey. Kral is in the sports coat with dark shirt. James Patrick Naughton in sports jacket.
I hope that you'll read my poem, "All That is Left For My Daughter," in Volume 3 of The Zest of the Lemon, which you can purchase here: thezestofthelemon.com/buying-the-z... Thanks to the editor, Dave Karpowicz, for including me with these many talented authors.
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I hope that you'll read my poem, "All That is Left For My Daughter," in Volume 3 of The Zest of the Lemon, which you can purchase here: thezestofthelemon.com/buying-the-z... Thanks to the editor, Dave Karpowicz, for including me with these many talented authors.
It's STILL #NationalCatDay !!!!!! Show us your national #cats !!!!! Here's Max!
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It's STILL #NationalCatDay !!!!!! Show us your national #cats !!!!! Here's Max!
It's #NationalCatDay !!!!!! Show us your national #cats !!!!! Here's Audrey!
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's #NationalCatDay !!!!!! Show us your national #cats !!!!! Here's Audrey!
Happy #PubDay #PublicationDay to....me! THE EXHAUST OF DREAMS ADULTERATED, #poems #poetry by me, is alive and out in the world today! Get your copy through this link: www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/the-e... You'll be glad you did!
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Happy #PubDay #PublicationDay to....me! THE EXHAUST OF DREAMS ADULTERATED, #poems #poetry by me, is alive and out in the world today! Get your copy through this link: www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/the-e... You'll be glad you did!
#COVERREAL for my forthcoming collection of #poems, #poetry, THE EXHAUST OF DREAMS ADULTERATED, coming from Broadstone Books on October 15. Watch this space for more information. Design by Ashley Johnson, a member of the Broadstone team. Info about Ashley: www.broadstonebooks.com/meet-the-bro...
August 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
#COVERREAL for my forthcoming collection of #poems, #poetry, THE EXHAUST OF DREAMS ADULTERATED, coming from Broadstone Books on October 15. Watch this space for more information. Design by Ashley Johnson, a member of the Broadstone team. Info about Ashley: www.broadstonebooks.com/meet-the-bro...
July 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Here's a cover reveal #coverreveal for my friend @rknester.bsky.social new #book of #poems #poetry coming from Shanti Arts Press on October 1: "About to Disappear." Information on ordering to come. Congrats, Robbi!
June 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Here's a cover reveal #coverreveal for my friend @rknester.bsky.social new #book of #poems #poetry coming from Shanti Arts Press on October 1: "About to Disappear." Information on ordering to come. Congrats, Robbi!
Happy Bloomsday (especially to me & my record number of rejections, 3 last week while on vacation, & 1 today, to start the week off right. I think I'm going to go for nothing but rejections now). Photos were taken in Dublin last week. See if you can guess who the American is besides the statue.
June 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Happy Bloomsday (especially to me & my record number of rejections, 3 last week while on vacation, & 1 today, to start the week off right. I think I'm going to go for nothing but rejections now). Photos were taken in Dublin last week. See if you can guess who the American is besides the statue.
May 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
P.S. The picture of Paul Rabinowitz from last night's First Floor Walk Up reading didn't reproduce on the original post so here it is. He's holding two of his books from Finishing Line Press: "Grand Street, Revisited" and "truth, love and the lines in between."
February 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
P.S. The picture of Paul Rabinowitz from last night's First Floor Walk Up reading didn't reproduce on the original post so here it is. He's holding two of his books from Finishing Line Press: "Grand Street, Revisited" and "truth, love and the lines in between."
Thanks to Wayne Kral for hosting/curating last night's First Floor Walk Up Reading Series event at the One and One Bar in lower Manhattan. Here are some pics of the other readers, I hope. They are, left to right, Henry Alcalay; Deedle Tomlinson; Wayne Kral; Tim Tomlinson; and Paul Rabinowitz.
February 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thanks to Wayne Kral for hosting/curating last night's First Floor Walk Up Reading Series event at the One and One Bar in lower Manhattan. Here are some pics of the other readers, I hope. They are, left to right, Henry Alcalay; Deedle Tomlinson; Wayne Kral; Tim Tomlinson; and Paul Rabinowitz.