Jake Fournier

Jake Fournier is a poet, scholar, and educator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose work moves with urgency and precision across the intertwined terrains of lyric, history, and political imaginatio... Jake Fournier is a poet, scholar, and educator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose work moves with urgency and precision across the intertwined terrains of lyric, history, and political imaginatio...

An interview with Chapter House about my book Punishment Bag forthcoming from @unmpress.bsky.social :

New, University of New Mexico Press Punishment Bag: Poems by Jake Fournier "The expectation of surprises and figurative penalties stay in every scene, in the ooze of bright-blue light, bear prints and fasting, the sexual taste of figs, the vouches of beekeepers, and in ‘a winter so brutal that the wolves / fed on the wind.’ Jake Fournier creates exceptional poignant promises and the curious temptation to reach into the punishment bag of his marvelous poetry.”—Gerald Vizenor, author of Theatre of Chance: Native Celebrities of Nothing in an Existential Colony

New book alert! PUNISHMENT BAG by Jake Fournier (@realmartinbuber.bsky.social) 💙📚

In conversation with collections like John Ashbery's Some Trees and Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, Punishment Bag is a daring #poetry debut that carves its own unsettling territory.

www.unmpress.com/978082636922...

when did you start doing dishes?

Jake Fournier — Washington Square Review Issue 54 Fall 2025

thanks @danielpoppick.bsky.social, @chrus.bsky.social, and @dapowell.bsky.social for your help with the book this poem gave it's name to

low-key goated

everything you need to know about Osiris:

Used booksellers of the world!
When?
When will you begin to use stickers with less stick?
For your inventory and internal records, you could use stickers like the stickers they use on apples...

Silver fox Tantalus wades up to the nipple line in a pool of water, a massive Ipad cradled in his left arm, an Iphone in his right hand. A fat tear rolls from his eye while myriad multicolored chore coats fill his screen and dance in the air around him, a forlorn and useless doric column stands in the background. Superimposed text reads, "Not in your size."

Instagram Tantalus, clicking through 1000 ethically-sourced exquisite chore coats, none sold in his size...

smiling hugely at a security

person when you walk past with

everything you stole

#improvingsituation

a superhero whose powers derive from the exactright brain mixture of PFAs and nanoplastics

Brooke Swaney's screenplay was amazing but unfortunately couldn't be included in the recording

2025 MFACW July Evening Reading Series Readings by Bojan Louis (Diné), Brooke Swaney (Blackfeet Nation Citizen and Salish Descendant), and Jake Fournier Join the Institute of American Indian Arts…

reading a long poem with Bojan Louis at the Institute of American Indian Arts

Can you give an exemple please?

CBS Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season

they don't have to disappear dissenters or throw them in jail. the "invisible hand" of the market will take care of them all on its own.

laughing when your waiter

at the tapas bar says

you ordered "a lot of food"

#worseningsituation

I've told you all about my café/book, record, and porn store, We've Moved to 6213 Menaul, right?

get home safe!

Punishment Bag In conversation with collections like John Ashbery's Some Trees and Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, Punishment Bag is a daring poetry debut that carve...

Oh shit.... 😍 @realmartinbuber.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Punish...

next time you're feeling down just remember that, when he ran into the monkey-god Hanuman on the path to heaven, the mountain of the Pandavas, embued with mantric weapons that placed him in war above the rakshasas and celestials--the mighty Bhima--couldn't budge even Rama's servant's relaxed tail

all our systems, from the market to the traffic grid, are designed to incentivize risk, so why is it that the systems' petty functionaries, the bank tellers and traffic cops, so excessively fear it?

The word "Giveaway" in the colors of the Pride flag and the text "win a signed copy." Covers of Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly: A Memoir by Dana Tai Soon Burgess and A Real Man Would Have a Gun by Stacey Waite.

Pride doesn't end when Pride Month is over…but this giveaway does! Repost or quote post by June 30th and we'll choose one winner to receive SIGNED COPIES of Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly + A Real Man Would Have a Gun! 💙📚 #booksky

US shipping only. Winner will be randomly selected on 7/1/25.

just realized that, back in February, I signed up for an intake appointment with a pcp named "O'Sickey" - almost makes up for Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa not becoming pope

It is amazing to me, though perhaps a good lesson that we all share the same demons, that you could ever feel down about your poems.

one of my great regrets in life is not having become a hyper-proficient funk bassist

not even short kings?

Mayor, City Council spar over paramedic staffing A strife over paramedic staffing is testing the balance of power at the Albuquerque City Hall, which could reshape how the city responds to emergencies. At the center of the dispute is a City Council rule requiring two paramedics on every rescue unit — a move the Keller administration says hurts emergency response and crosses into the mayor’s authority under Albuquerque’s strong-mayor charter.

Mayor, City Council spar over paramedic staffing

A strife over paramedic staffing is testing the balance of power at the Albuquerque City Hall, which could reshape how the city responds to emergencies. At the center of the dispute is a City Council rule requiring two paramedics on every rescue…

Video: Is ‘Get Jiggy’ This Year’s Song of the Summer? In his latest driver’s-seat review, our critic Jon Caramanica makes a case for a new, vintage-feeling rap track as a possible song of the summer.

@joncaramanica.bsky.social is the absolute type specimen of Gen X, nerding out over Caramicrons of difference in drill beats. Check out Wirecutter's pick for song of the summer:

a nice dinner of creatine, bcaas, magnesium l-threonate, sodium bicarbonate, beet root powder, circuminoids, fish oil, ibuprofen, epsom salt, and spinach

classic yellow for the win 🙌