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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
Photo shared by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025 tagging @naomi.marie__, @nathanmiller612, @rubyscher, @holaarepa, @birksg, @chefjholig, and @haihaimpls. May be an image of text that says 'AS SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, I.C.E. PAID US A VISIT AT AREPA YESTERDAY. OUR GM NAOMI & TEAM MEMBERS FOLLOWED OUR ICE PROTOCOL PERFECTLY, THE AGENTS LEFT & NO ONE WAS DETAINED. tO WHOEVER NEEDS THIS: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN IT COMES TO I.C.E. (1/5)'. christinanguyenmpls 11h We had an ICE scare yesterday and even though we’re afraid of the repercussions of being vocal, we feel that it’s also important to inform people that this is right at our front door. ICE is not some far away boogeyman. They are here right now, spreading fear in our community. We’re so grateful to our entire staff and their bravery. They did the right things and couldn’t have dealt with this situation in a better way. We are grateful to our community activists that came to support us from @miracmn @litosonlake and Monarcha. We hope that if you find yourself in the same situation, that you find these resources helpful. Peace and take care of each other ❤️ Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: UNLESS THE AGENTS HAVE A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT, THEY CANNOT ENTER A PRIVATE AREA LIKE THE KITCHEN WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION EVEN IF THEY LIE AND SAY THY DON'T NEED A WARRANT, STAND YOUR GROUND AND INSIST THAT YOU NEED PAPERWORK (2/5)'. Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: HAVE OTHER STAFF OR PEOPLE PRESENT RECORD THEM AND EVERYTHING THEY ARE SAYING. (PEOPLE DOING UNLAWFUL THINGS HATE BEING CAUGHT IN TH ACT) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to REFUSE SERVICE & YOU CAN ASK M tO LEAVE YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY IF THY DON'T HAVE A WARRANT. (3/5)'. WE ARE HEARTBROKEN THAT OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWIN CITIES ARE BEING TARGETED AND TERRORIZED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING USED AS POLITICAL PAWNS AND IT'S APPALLING. REGARDLESS OF THEIR LEGAL STATUS, THERE ARE SO MANY LATINOS & SOMALIANS WHO ARE AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED DUE TO MISTAKEN IDENTITY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY MIGHT NOT GET DUE PROCESS & A FAIR TRIAL. THEY WILL JUST END UP IN DETENTION CENTERS & A LEGAL PROCESS THAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A BLACK HOLE. WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF THIS COUNTRY. WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS, AMERICA IS NOT THE SAME PLACE. STAY SAFE OUT THERE & TAKE CARE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE, HOLA AREPA & HAI HAI (5/5)
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Join author @joseolivarez.bsky.social for an upcoming poetry workshop. You'll be messing the language up on purpose towards musicality and clarity. Writers working with any languages welcome! Register now for 20% off—while space remains! bit.ly/4phRdc2
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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PROMISES OF GOLD by @joseolivarez.bsky.social: a groundbreaking collection of poems by José Olivarez that "shines bright as the gold that got us into all this colonial mess." (Nate Marshall)

Find a signed copy at the Brew&Forge Book Fair through 12/3!

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Promises of Gold by José Olivarez — Brew & Forge
Henry Holt, 2023. ““My people I am poly with the tortillas” might be my favorite single sentence I have ever read in a poem. Get the book for that line alone. Promises of Gold is a heartfelt and hila...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Last call at Brew&Forge Book Fair 2025!!! Browse thru 11:59 PM to buy a book and support community organizing!

📚 all books $20–free shipping in the US
❣️ help raise funds for @arocbayarea.bsky.social
🧵 below is a thread of amazing signed books you can find tonight at www.brewandforge.com/bookfair!
Store — Brew & Forge
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December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A sneak peek of our winter classes—register while space remains! at.pw.org/classes

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December 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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they doubted / your lungs. claimed you hid lakes / in your spine
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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brooklynpoets.bsky.social
It’s the FINAL DAY of our fundraising auction ft. @gabriellebates.bsky.social, @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Ross Gay, Ariana Reines, @cathylinhche.bsky.social, @taraskurtu.bsky.social, @joseolivarez.bsky.social, Hala Alyan & more! Get your bids in by 10pm ET!

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Brooklyn Poets 2025 End of Year Fundraising Campaign
Help us continue cultivating community and access to poetry across the borough and beyond by supporting our end-of-year fundraising campaign today!
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November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A poem for Sunday.

From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bookshop.org/a/862/9781250878496

#poem #books #writing
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
joseolivarez.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky,
I have three new poems out today via @sixtyinchesfrmcntr.bsky.social — check them out here: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/against-citi...
against citizenship: three poems x José Olivarez - Sixty Inches From Center
"i can hear your voices: when did josé get so cyclical?"
sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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For 30 years, Hub City Press has championed the finest voices of the American South. This year, we formed our first-ever National Advisory Council to help guide our next chapter. Together, we'll continue to shape the future of independent publishing. Learn more at hubcity.org/advisorycouncil
Hub City Press National Advisory Council headshots of Kevin Wilson, Lauren Groff, John T. Edge, Ashley M. Jones, John Jeremiah Sullivan Hub City Press National Advisory Council (cont.) headshots of Cinelle Barnes, Wiley Cash, José Olivarez, Carter Sickels Hub City Press National Advisory Council (cont.) headshots of Michael Taeckens, Mesha Maren, Lauren LeBlanc, Neema Avashia Blue text on off-white background reads: Meet our our first-ever National Advisory Council, a small, distinguished group of authors and literary leaders whose influence and insight will help guide our next chapter. Together, we'll help shape the future of independent publishing at a time when it is most under threat and advocate for new voices, editorial care, and the importance of literature in our divided cultural landscape. hubcity.org/advisorycouncil
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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evecastle.bsky.social
poem where no one is deported

BY JOSÉ OLIVAREZ

#poetry #immigration #ICE

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/160700...
poem where no one is deported
women who were ready for cameras or for God, who ended all their sentences with si dios quiere. as in: the day before the immigration raid when the rumor of a raid was passed around like bread & the w...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Apropos of nothing, we still have a few of these @joseolivarez.bsky.social broadsides available.
"The Democrats Need to Stop Asking Me for Five Dollars" poem by José Olivarez
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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brooklynpoets.bsky.social
Our fundraising auction ft. poem feedback, consultations & more from poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Hala Alyan, @gabriellebates.bsky.social, @cathylinhche.bsky.social, @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Ross Gay, @joseolivarez.bsky.social, @taraskurtu.bsky.social & more is live! givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/au...
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
joseolivarez.bsky.social
Wepa time got cancelled tonight
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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“People are forced to attempt to sleep for days or sometimes weeks on plastic chairs or on the filthy concrete floor,” the suit alleges. “They are denied sufficient food and water. They cannot shower, they are denied soap, hygiene items, and menstrual products.." @southsideweekly.bsky.social
Lawsuit Alleges Inhumane Conditions at Broadview ICE Facility
Federal authorities moved two plaintiffs in the suit out of state; a judge has ordered they be returned Monday.
southsideweekly.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Pilsen’s massive ofrenda has returned for Día de los Muertos.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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FRIDAY LINKS IS UP feat @victorlavalle.bsky.social @patriphobe.bsky.social @joseolivarez.bsky.social @tiffany.thetriibe.com @hkappklote.bsky.social @themelodymercado.bsky.social @djbyrnes1.bsky.social @tonia.thetriibe.com @franciagarciah.bsky.social and MORE!

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Friday Links: Is The Monster Within You Or Is It Society’s Fault Edition – Lazy & Entitled
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October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Blurbs for my book are in!!!
Thank you so much to @joseolivarez.bsky.social, Meg Ford, & @edgarkunz.bsky.social

This chapbook feels like a dream!!!

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October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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illinoispress.bsky.social
"A poet reacts to the immigration crackdown in his hometown the way he knows best: through verse."
www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

@joseolivarez.bsky.social is the foreword author of LINGERING INLAND, edited by @andyoler.bsky.social
cc: @chicagomag.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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"I go to Social Justice High School. And the first thing they teach you is about the hunger strike that built the Little Village/Lawndale High School campus," said Leah Sophia Lopez on the loud speaker."
Hundreds of high schoolers walk out of class to protest ICE in Chicago's Little Village
Hundreds of high school students in Little Village walked out of class Tuesday to protest ICE and Pres. Trump's immigration crackdown in Chicago.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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“Chicago is the future.“

@joseolivarez.bsky.social for @chicagomag.com
when we win the masked agents raid our neighborhoods. what do they cover up? (yesterday) is their promise & their charge. on 75th and South Shore they ram down our doors using (yesterday). they toss canisters of (yesterday) into our children’s lullabies. why? my people, we carry (today) & (tomorrow) in twin holsters. we plant (today) & (tomorrow) in our gardens. every day there are more sprouts. let it be known: Chicago will never cower. (yesterday) already died. (yesterday) is dying. (yesterday) will die again. there is no future in (yesterday). the agents in our neighborhoods hide their faces because they are losing. because they lost. when we win, there will be whistles from the gulls circling Lake Michigan. let them sing it: Chicago is a city of (today) & (tomorrow). Chicago is the future.
October 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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lyndab08.bsky.social
Love this part of the poem. ✊🏼

Read in its entirety in the link below.
there are more sprouts. let it be known: Chicago will never cower. (yesterday) already died. (yesterday) is dying. (yesterday) will die again. there is no future in (yesterday). the agents in our neighborhoods hide their faces because they are losing. because they lost. when we win,
October 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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chicagomag.com
Poet @joseolivarez.bsky.social reacts to the immigration crackdown in his hometown the way he knows best: through verse.
A Poem for Our Times
A poet reacts to the immigration crackdown in his hometown the way he knows best: through verse.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
joseolivarez.bsky.social
Published a new poem. Thank you to @chicagomag.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Thank you, Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM