Jessica Johnson

poetry & nonfiction / community college / Mettlework @acre_books /Metabolics @acre_books/✨@constellationRS /she/they /JessEJohnson.bskysocial

[Amanda Knox @amandaknox]

You should never be in a room with police for more than an hour. If they read you your Miranda rights, you’re a suspect. Shut it down. Demand a lawyer. This is just some of the advice I got from a retired FBI Special Agent, and two renowned false confessions experts. /thread

[DEBUTIFUL @debutiful]

Are you a 2025 debut writer that will be at #AWP25? Let us know! @vitcavage is cooking up fun for Los Angeles!

[Preeti Vangani @Pscripturient]

My book, Fifty Mothers will be published by River River Press in Feb 2026. DM for readings/class visits/ARC inquires.

[Jessica Johnson @JJoPDX]

@DeVonciFig Keep an eye on Idaho (UI). I just visited there and had a great time!

[Jessica Johnson @JJoPDX]

@DeVonciFig CWU is hiring, don’t remember which genre

[Jessica Johnson @JJoPDX]

Child in the passenger seat beside me: What if the earth is moving toward us and not the other way around?

Me: There’s a poem about that. Would you like to read it when we get home?

Child: no.

[Baltimore Sun Guild ☀️ @baltsunguild]

The Letter to the Editor that the Baltimore Sun won't publish:

[Jessica Johnson @JJoPDX]

@RosebudBenOni Not mine but from 2020

https://t.co/FuDVNoyUo1

[Mitch Green for Portland City Council, District 4 @mitch4portland]

Council is voting to extend for *10* years the Downtown Clean & Safe contract ahead of the election. This ensures a decade of public money flows into the Portland Business Alliance’s coffers to fund their ongoing lobbying with the city. It’s a huge conflict of interest 🚩

[Jessica Johnson @JJoPDX]

More of this!

[Andrew Berzanskis @ABerzanskis]

The first three books in the @OUPress "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed" series are here at #WHA2024—"A Pedagogy of Kindness" by @cjdenial and advance copies of @liznorell's "The Present Professor" & Michelle D. Miller's "A Teacher's Guide to Learning Student Names."

[Jessica Johnson @JJoPDX]

Tacoma! Coming to Grit City Books tomorrow night. Looking forward to this conversation with Jay Aquinas Thompson.

https://t.co/EDh6ZbSoJQ

[Nathaniel St. Clair @NatStClair]

For the first time in 114 years, biologists from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have observed a fall-run Chinook salmon returning to spawn in the Klamath Basin in Oregon, after dam removal.

[Mitch Green for Portland City Council, District 4 @mitch4portland]

Extremely excited to receive top billing for the @portlandmercury D4 endorsement. Proud day for Team Mitch. Thanks for not betting against Portland, Merc. Looking forward to fighting for the city we deserve.
https://t.co/oLHKNchJ2v

[Jessica Johnson @JJoPDX]

One of the few political bright spots— these super organized grassroots campaigns that allow smart, warm everyday people (your kids’ teacher, your neighbor, a member of your local) to have a shot at changing the city. Shame on @Oregonian for not interviewing them.

[Portland DSA @PortlandDSA]

The Oregonian refused to even interview the only 2 candidates endorsed by Portland DSA — despite their status as the top recipients of small-donor dollars in D3 & D4

(and it’s clear why!)

Read more: https://t.co/IGKK4rvTcg

[Jessica Johnson @JJoPDX]

Used bookstore level unlocked: when they have a book by your teacher and a book by your student

[Willamette Week @wweek]

The huge increase in overdose deaths in Oregon has had little to do with Measure 110, and everything to do with the arrival of fentanyl, the souped-up opioid that makes heroin look like lite beer.

That’s what researchers at Brown University conclude. https://t.co/nTyI7o7U6k