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Meridian’s Short Prose Prize, PRISM Creative Nonfiction, CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition; residencies - British Columbia, CA, OR. Currently writer-in-residence, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Publishing: Grain, Malahat Review, The Masters Review
Meridian’s Short Prose Prize, PRISM Creative Nonfiction, CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition; residencies - British Columbia, CA, OR. Currently writer-in-residence, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Publishing: Grain, Malahat Review, The Masters Review
Post by Aaron Rabinowitz
After Grandma died my sister said, We need to send Uncle Larry cards, keep him happy, and I said, I don’t think that he was ever happy and she said, We should all send him cards even just postcards an...
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Meridian’s Short Prose Prize, PRISM Creative Nonfiction, CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition; residencies - British Columbia, CA, OR. Currently writer-in-residence, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Publishing: Grain, Malahat Review, The Masters Review
Meridian’s Short Prose Prize, PRISM Creative Nonfiction, CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition; residencies - British Columbia, CA, OR. Currently writer-in-residence, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Publishing: Grain, Malahat Review, The Masters Review
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Michael Jones poetry appears in journals such as Salamander, J Journal, Sugar House, and Beloit Poetry Journal. He has taught since 1990 in Oakland (CA) public schools.
Michael Jones poetry appears in journals such as Salamander, J Journal, Sugar House, and Beloit Poetry Journal. He has taught since 1990 in Oakland (CA) public schools.
Decision Tree by Michael Jones
Which pickle to pick
is not fit for childish
deliberations,
especially when pecks
of pickles have picked
this child and that and their
mamas and daddies and
their whole generations.
Of the pickles you...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Michael Jones poetry appears in journals such as Salamander, J Journal, Sugar House, and Beloit Poetry Journal. He has taught since 1990 in Oakland (CA) public schools.
Michael Jones poetry appears in journals such as Salamander, J Journal, Sugar House, and Beloit Poetry Journal. He has taught since 1990 in Oakland (CA) public schools.
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Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.
Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.
Maybe by Wolfgang Wright
I was at my girlfriend’s when she got a call from a friend whose car had run out of gas, and this friend wanted Katie—that’s my girlfriend—to—and because her friend was pretty much shouting through th...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.
Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.
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Sullivan’s stories have appeared in journals including Big Muddy, Moment Magazine and Cherry Tree. Her essay “The Perfect Height for Kissing” won Columbia University’s Non-Fiction Prize and was published in Issue 53 of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
Sullivan’s stories have appeared in journals including Big Muddy, Moment Magazine and Cherry Tree. Her essay “The Perfect Height for Kissing” won Columbia University’s Non-Fiction Prize and was published in Issue 53 of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
My Deal by Ellen Davis Sullivan
“You’re not breathing,” my mother said. A voice coach who teaches Suits and Baby MBAs how to speak in public, she’s an expert on the way nerves shut down air intake.
I couldn’t tell her that at that m...
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October 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Sullivan’s stories have appeared in journals including Big Muddy, Moment Magazine and Cherry Tree. Her essay “The Perfect Height for Kissing” won Columbia University’s Non-Fiction Prize and was published in Issue 53 of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
Sullivan’s stories have appeared in journals including Big Muddy, Moment Magazine and Cherry Tree. Her essay “The Perfect Height for Kissing” won Columbia University’s Non-Fiction Prize and was published in Issue 53 of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
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A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.
A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.
A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.
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Author of 3 poetry collections: Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umberto’s Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. James Still Award, Thomas Merton prize, H.O.W. Journal, Washington Square Review.
Author of 3 poetry collections: Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umberto’s Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. James Still Award, Thomas Merton prize, H.O.W. Journal, Washington Square Review.
things you should know by Kathleen Hellen
I should throw it away. Nubbed and frayed
from all the cycles. The thrashing and the tumbling.
This shabby robe that robs the dignity of my undressing.
This effigy that hangs on tatty sleeves. These ...
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August 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Author of 3 poetry collections: Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umberto’s Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. James Still Award, Thomas Merton prize, H.O.W. Journal, Washington Square Review.
Author of 3 poetry collections: Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umberto’s Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. James Still Award, Thomas Merton prize, H.O.W. Journal, Washington Square Review.
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Billie Pritchett is an English professor in the Department of Creative Convergence at Kyungnam University in Changwon, Korea. His work has appeared in Delmarva Review, Washington Square Review, and most recently in Arkana.
Billie Pritchett is an English professor in the Department of Creative Convergence at Kyungnam University in Changwon, Korea. His work has appeared in Delmarva Review, Washington Square Review, and most recently in Arkana.
Past Life by Billie Pritchett
Before my mother, there had been another woman, Britannia, whom my father loved and married when they were both in their twenties. After a brief courthouse ceremony with three friends as witnesses, th...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Billie Pritchett is an English professor in the Department of Creative Convergence at Kyungnam University in Changwon, Korea. His work has appeared in Delmarva Review, Washington Square Review, and most recently in Arkana.
Billie Pritchett is an English professor in the Department of Creative Convergence at Kyungnam University in Changwon, Korea. His work has appeared in Delmarva Review, Washington Square Review, and most recently in Arkana.
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Books: SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, When Trying to Return Home and Kinds of Grace. Fellowships from NEA, Kimbilio, CantoMundo. Heralded by NYT, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine. Fiction editor, Pleiades. Assistant professor U Missouri - Kansas City.
Books: SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, When Trying to Return Home and Kinds of Grace. Fellowships from NEA, Kimbilio, CantoMundo. Heralded by NYT, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine. Fiction editor, Pleiades. Assistant professor U Missouri - Kansas City.
Smoke Break by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
So I left Lady for good then got off the bus. It felt right, leaving Lady Prananda. Plus I thought no way sadness is not not not going to happen to this girl right here so I dropped her for good, my s...
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July 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Books: SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, When Trying to Return Home and Kinds of Grace. Fellowships from NEA, Kimbilio, CantoMundo. Heralded by NYT, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine. Fiction editor, Pleiades. Assistant professor U Missouri - Kansas City.
Books: SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, When Trying to Return Home and Kinds of Grace. Fellowships from NEA, Kimbilio, CantoMundo. Heralded by NYT, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine. Fiction editor, Pleiades. Assistant professor U Missouri - Kansas City.
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J. E. Robinson's poem “Panaetius” appeared in J Journal in Spring 2024 and received a “Best of the Net” nomination. Currently, he enjoys retirement.
J. E. Robinson's poem “Panaetius” appeared in J Journal in Spring 2024 and received a “Best of the Net” nomination. Currently, he enjoys retirement.
Wilding by J.E. Robinson
wine why my tastes tonight run
more for rye or whisky
my throat demands that burn fire
water which helps me forget my
world
wines for therapy not for forgetting
a night from wine put this mark upon
me...
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July 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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J. E. Robinson's poem “Panaetius” appeared in J Journal in Spring 2024 and received a “Best of the Net” nomination. Currently, he enjoys retirement.
J. E. Robinson's poem “Panaetius” appeared in J Journal in Spring 2024 and received a “Best of the Net” nomination. Currently, he enjoys retirement.
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A documentary poet who writes using a unique method of homophonic translation. Authored Arizona SB 1070: An Act (Downstate Legacies) and How I Pitched the First Curve (Lit Fest Press), + forthcoming chapbook Suppose / a Presence (Action, Spectacle).
A documentary poet who writes using a unique method of homophonic translation. Authored Arizona SB 1070: An Act (Downstate Legacies) and How I Pitched the First Curve (Lit Fest Press), + forthcoming chapbook Suppose / a Presence (Action, Spectacle).
Customer Review of Half-Day Lajes Air Base Historic Sightseeing Tour by Ryan Clark
Five Stars—Excellent Tour and driver/guide
The road took us into the island where
we came across Victory. He held
a pointed staff and left footprints long
and vehicular. Victory spoke very good
Englis...
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July 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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A documentary poet who writes using a unique method of homophonic translation. Authored Arizona SB 1070: An Act (Downstate Legacies) and How I Pitched the First Curve (Lit Fest Press), + forthcoming chapbook Suppose / a Presence (Action, Spectacle).
A documentary poet who writes using a unique method of homophonic translation. Authored Arizona SB 1070: An Act (Downstate Legacies) and How I Pitched the First Curve (Lit Fest Press), + forthcoming chapbook Suppose / a Presence (Action, Spectacle).
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Amrita De is a Visiting Research Fellow at Penn State. She specializes in masculinity studies and global south literatures. Creative works have appeared in Café Dissensus, Aaduna, Muse India, Cerebrations, Snarl, Barricade, Hong Kong Review.
Amrita De is a Visiting Research Fellow at Penn State. She specializes in masculinity studies and global south literatures. Creative works have appeared in Café Dissensus, Aaduna, Muse India, Cerebrations, Snarl, Barricade, Hong Kong Review.
The Barber Shop by Amrita De
Every day, at nine in the morning, Mr. Ghosh got his mustache trimmed while waiting for things to happen. Betel juice dripped from one side of his paan-stained lips, his backside comfortably lodged on...
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June 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Amrita De is a Visiting Research Fellow at Penn State. She specializes in masculinity studies and global south literatures. Creative works have appeared in Café Dissensus, Aaduna, Muse India, Cerebrations, Snarl, Barricade, Hong Kong Review.
Amrita De is a Visiting Research Fellow at Penn State. She specializes in masculinity studies and global south literatures. Creative works have appeared in Café Dissensus, Aaduna, Muse India, Cerebrations, Snarl, Barricade, Hong Kong Review.
www.jjournal.org/post/new-ter... Nina Ellis’s short stories have appeared in Granta, American Chordata, Carve Magazine, The London Magazine, Ambit, 3:AM, the Mays anthology and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Oxford Review of Books and elsewhere.
New Territories by Nina Ellis
Callie landed just after eleven o’clock in the morning. Immigration was easy—the guy glanced at her picture and grinned. Her bag came out third. She had nothing to declare...
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June 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
www.jjournal.org/post/new-ter... Nina Ellis’s short stories have appeared in Granta, American Chordata, Carve Magazine, The London Magazine, Ambit, 3:AM, the Mays anthology and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Oxford Review of Books and elsewhere.
www.jjournal.org/current-issue The cartoon voice saying, "I am what I am," sounds simplistic. But we are what we are and like. We like low-to-the ground, less-is-more, tangential routes to justice. Still, in new issue #35, more than real seems possible; possible enough to move toward the fantastic.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
www.jjournal.org/current-issue The cartoon voice saying, "I am what I am," sounds simplistic. But we are what we are and like. We like low-to-the ground, less-is-more, tangential routes to justice. Still, in new issue #35, more than real seems possible; possible enough to move toward the fantastic.
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Poems published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Plume, Ploughshares, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, and others. Two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: The Fork Without Hunger; Without Wings. Professor emeritus, Whitworth University.
Poems published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Plume, Ploughshares, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, and others. Two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: The Fork Without Hunger; Without Wings. Professor emeritus, Whitworth University.
Murmuration of Mind and Tongue by Laurie Lamon
how can it be as the mind moves the tongue moves somewhere near the flock a falcon is (the flock loses no information) How can it be...
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May 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Poems published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Plume, Ploughshares, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, and others. Two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: The Fork Without Hunger; Without Wings. Professor emeritus, Whitworth University.
Poems published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Plume, Ploughshares, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, and others. Two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: The Fork Without Hunger; Without Wings. Professor emeritus, Whitworth University.
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Wrote feminist noir novel Found, Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy, & spare change, finalist Stafford/Hall Award, poetry. Published in Denver Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, The Rumpus + more. Supports creative writing at regional prison, teaches, editor at Airlie Press.
Wrote feminist noir novel Found, Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy, & spare change, finalist Stafford/Hall Award, poetry. Published in Denver Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, The Rumpus + more. Supports creative writing at regional prison, teaches, editor at Airlie Press.
I, Labor by Irene Cooper
“Death Sentence: Poetry Consolation II” is a poem constructed by artificial intelligence algorithms based on the prison writings...
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May 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Wrote feminist noir novel Found, Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy, & spare change, finalist Stafford/Hall Award, poetry. Published in Denver Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, The Rumpus + more. Supports creative writing at regional prison, teaches, editor at Airlie Press.
Wrote feminist noir novel Found, Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy, & spare change, finalist Stafford/Hall Award, poetry. Published in Denver Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, The Rumpus + more. Supports creative writing at regional prison, teaches, editor at Airlie Press.
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Joshua Brorby was born and raised in rural North Dakota. He holds a PhD in nineteenth-century English literature and has taught at institutions in St. Louis; Columbia, MO; Zhuhai, China; and Atlanta, where he currently resides. This story marks his fiction debut.
Joshua Brorby was born and raised in rural North Dakota. He holds a PhD in nineteenth-century English literature and has taught at institutions in St. Louis; Columbia, MO; Zhuhai, China; and Atlanta, where he currently resides. This story marks his fiction debut.
The Last Will by Joshua Brorby
It came to pass that I was asked to assist the executor of a modest last will and testament. The problem was that I had become intimately...
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May 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Joshua Brorby was born and raised in rural North Dakota. He holds a PhD in nineteenth-century English literature and has taught at institutions in St. Louis; Columbia, MO; Zhuhai, China; and Atlanta, where he currently resides. This story marks his fiction debut.
Joshua Brorby was born and raised in rural North Dakota. He holds a PhD in nineteenth-century English literature and has taught at institutions in St. Louis; Columbia, MO; Zhuhai, China; and Atlanta, where he currently resides. This story marks his fiction debut.
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Paul's fiction has appeared in Aethlon, Ruminate, storySouth, and elsewhere. He won a Pushcart Prize (XXXVII) for his story “The Fall of Punicea,” which was nominated by the editors of JJournal. He currently teaches English in a public HBCU in North Carolina.
Paul's fiction has appeared in Aethlon, Ruminate, storySouth, and elsewhere. He won a Pushcart Prize (XXXVII) for his story “The Fall of Punicea,” which was nominated by the editors of JJournal. He currently teaches English in a public HBCU in North Carolina.
Where Catfish Once Stood by Paul Stapleton
Everyone was antsy, sitting on the front porch, the kids picking at the chipped paint with the toes of their sneakers...
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March 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Paul's fiction has appeared in Aethlon, Ruminate, storySouth, and elsewhere. He won a Pushcart Prize (XXXVII) for his story “The Fall of Punicea,” which was nominated by the editors of JJournal. He currently teaches English in a public HBCU in North Carolina.
Paul's fiction has appeared in Aethlon, Ruminate, storySouth, and elsewhere. He won a Pushcart Prize (XXXVII) for his story “The Fall of Punicea,” which was nominated by the editors of JJournal. He currently teaches English in a public HBCU in North Carolina.
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Mike Piero, Ph.D. (he/him) is a bisexual writer and professor in Northeast Ohio, where he teaches courses in writing, literature, the humanities, and game studies. www.mikepiero.org.
Mike Piero, Ph.D. (he/him) is a bisexual writer and professor in Northeast Ohio, where he teaches courses in writing, literature, the humanities, and game studies. www.mikepiero.org.
The Keeper of Numbers by Mike Piero
Tucked away in the university’s bowels, he toils away in thermal paper dreams masquerading as headstones of campus dining events...
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March 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Mike Piero, Ph.D. (he/him) is a bisexual writer and professor in Northeast Ohio, where he teaches courses in writing, literature, the humanities, and game studies. www.mikepiero.org.
Mike Piero, Ph.D. (he/him) is a bisexual writer and professor in Northeast Ohio, where he teaches courses in writing, literature, the humanities, and game studies. www.mikepiero.org.
www.jjournal.org/post/in-reve... Christina Simon, is the former nonfiction editor for Angels Flight Literary West. Her essays have been published in Salon, The Offing, Cleaver Magazine, Slag Glass City, Columbia Journal (winner of the 2020 Black History Month Contest for Nonfiction).
March 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
www.jjournal.org/post/in-reve... Christina Simon, is the former nonfiction editor for Angels Flight Literary West. Her essays have been published in Salon, The Offing, Cleaver Magazine, Slag Glass City, Columbia Journal (winner of the 2020 Black History Month Contest for Nonfiction).
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Heather Jessen has poems appearing or forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Humanities Review, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere and is a finalist for the Charles Simic poetry prize.
Heather Jessen has poems appearing or forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Humanities Review, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere and is a finalist for the Charles Simic poetry prize.
In English Words Don’t Exist by Heather Jessen
for the sounds of ordinary things
manhandled with too much
force. Relentless, yet sporadic
thwok bumf sclitch drundun
percussion of...
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Heather Jessen has poems appearing or forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Humanities Review, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere and is a finalist for the Charles Simic poetry prize.
Heather Jessen has poems appearing or forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Humanities Review, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere and is a finalist for the Charles Simic poetry prize.