Meg Johnson

I'm excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book. Thank you to Daniel Handler for writing about the book, & thank you to everyone at Vine Leaves Press. As an immunocompromised person during a pandemic, I am extremely grateful for moments that are not about Covid-19 anxiety.

Check out great new interview by @MissMegJohnson with #Tullio DeSantis Meg Johnson: Interview with Tullio DeSantis megjohnsonmegjohnson.blogspot.com/2025/11/interv…

Poetry alum Meg Johnson interviews multidisciplinary artist Tullio DeSantis — read it here: megjohnsonmegjohnson.blogspot.com/2025/11/interv…

@NEOMFA Thanks for sharing!💛

@veryfinewriting Thanks for sharing!💛

I can vote Democrat and still criticize the Democrats. After all, the first step to change is acknowledging you have a problem.

Trump BLOWS UP his OWN plan before he EVEN STARTS youtube.com/watch?v=TF3QER…

Just a reminder to the people still here: Kamala had a plan to lower food costs, cut student debt, 25k help with buying a first home, 6K for a new baby, 3K a year to help with children, a plan to make housing more available by blocking private equity from buying homes, and

True Story...

Well done Ireland! ⤵️

"Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and many have no emergency savings—they are one crisis from homelessness. A job loss or an unexpected illness and they are where I am. They are on edge, driving bigger and faster and louder cars—a society speeding along as it disintegrates." esquire.com/news-politics/…

We see right through the unshowered soul living in a car by the beach, or by the Walmart, or by the side of the road. But he’s there, and he used to be somebody. He still is. A firsthand account of homelessness in America. esquire.com/news-politics/…

"The officers are civil, but every encounter causes me apprehension and stress. When you’re homeless, you are even more vulnerable. You have no place to go, no kitchen table to sit at while you drink your beer, invisible to them. You’re always on their turf. It’s unnerving." esquire.com/news-politics/…

"I receive $960 a month from SSDI. I should have $32 a day, but my needs, and a few wants, are debiting my account. Living as minimally as I know how, I’m not making it. I’m losing weight I don’t have to lose." esquire.com/news-politics/…

"The moneyed reject us because they know they create us, that we are a consequence of their impulse to accumulate more than they need, rooted in a fear of life and the death that comes with it." esquire.com/news-politics/…

"In 1997, I was a 29-year-old award-winning art critic and journalist when I was stricken by a violent and disabling onset of manic depression. I managed to avoid the street for 26 years after my diagnosis. The idea of homelessness was terrifying. When I faced it in 2019, I thought of which warm states I could go to and live in my car, and I had visions of which bridge I would jump off. How many other people are in this position, too ill and poor to afford affordable housing? And too poor to be homeless?" Read the extraordinary firsthand account: bit.ly/3O8ci81

"This is part of your rejection, this fear that it could be you. You deny that reality because it is too horrific to contemplate, therefore you must deny us." Patrick Fealey, @esquire #longreads esquire.com/news-politics/…

"If I were the leader of a country, I would print my motto on the flag: Trust no one. Birth control forever." Read "Motto" by @MissMegJohnson: littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/motto

Oh my goodness. This new Kamala Harris ad is so powerful. Hadley Duvall tells how her stepfather raped her when she was 12 & then she became pregnant. But girls now can no longer access the care she got because of Trump. Billie Eilish closes the ad. Watch.

people would be a lot healthier, happier, safer, and live longer if transportation, medical care, and education were free. a lot of mainstream news is an elaborate attempt to obscure this truth.

"I once broke up with a cancer patient I was dating because he wrote what I considered to be a sappy poem." Read "Things About Me That Aren’t Great" by @MissMegJohnson: littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/thin…