Jana-Lee Germaine
@jlgerm.bsky.social
I’m delighted to have my poem “First Joy” in the current print issue of New Ohio Review! A huge thank you to Dave Wanczyk, @damiencowger.bsky.social & all the staff @newohioreview.bsky.social who worked so hard on this issue!
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I’m delighted to have my poem “First Joy” in the current print issue of New Ohio Review! A huge thank you to Dave Wanczyk, @damiencowger.bsky.social & all the staff @newohioreview.bsky.social who worked so hard on this issue!
I’m honored to have “The Peacock Takes the Stairs” & “The Peacock Loses His Mate” as part of Kenzie Allen’s guest-edited “More-Than-Human-World” folio in the current issue of Poet Lore. Thank you to @cerena.bsky.social @eaholla.bsky.social & the rest of the crew for another fantastic issue!
October 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’m honored to have “The Peacock Takes the Stairs” & “The Peacock Loses His Mate” as part of Kenzie Allen’s guest-edited “More-Than-Human-World” folio in the current issue of Poet Lore. Thank you to @cerena.bsky.social @eaholla.bsky.social & the rest of the crew for another fantastic issue!
I woke up today remembering the Bread Loaf hay ride - it was like being in an MMA fight with a tractor. Most vicious hay ride I've ever been on, and the most fun, too.
September 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I woke up today remembering the Bread Loaf hay ride - it was like being in an MMA fight with a tractor. Most vicious hay ride I've ever been on, and the most fun, too.
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"Yet when they sing all the woe of the world / Is transformed. It is as if they / Have touched the tips of their fingers / To the air. The suffering, the blood-vaporized air." Gregory Orfalea, "It Is Hard To Speak" in Presence 2025.
August 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"Yet when they sing all the woe of the world / Is transformed. It is as if they / Have touched the tips of their fingers / To the air. The suffering, the blood-vaporized air." Gregory Orfalea, "It Is Hard To Speak" in Presence 2025.
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"Pablo Medina's newest book of poetry, Sea of Broken Mirrors, [is] a collection of radiant and visceral poems whose graceful movements and keen insights are pure pleasure from start to finish." -- from Jana-Lee Germaine's review in Presence 2025
July 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"Pablo Medina's newest book of poetry, Sea of Broken Mirrors, [is] a collection of radiant and visceral poems whose graceful movements and keen insights are pure pleasure from start to finish." -- from Jana-Lee Germaine's review in Presence 2025
I feel so honored and humbled to be a recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award for Literature for 2025. The funds will allow me to go away on a writing retreat for September so that I can finally finish my first manuscript of poetry.
Emerging Artist Recipients – St. Botolph Club Foundation
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June 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I feel so honored and humbled to be a recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award for Literature for 2025. The funds will allow me to go away on a writing retreat for September so that I can finally finish my first manuscript of poetry.
Delighted to announce that my poem "Swing" is in the current issue of MER (Vol. 23). You can hear me read it in their first issue launch reading, recorded here: youtu.be/1W05WnyO4Ec?...
Such a great afternoon of poetry and prose! I was blown away by all the amazing work. (I'm about 15 min in FYI).
Such a great afternoon of poetry and prose! I was blown away by all the amazing work. (I'm about 15 min in FYI).
May 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Delighted to announce that my poem "Swing" is in the current issue of MER (Vol. 23). You can hear me read it in their first issue launch reading, recorded here: youtu.be/1W05WnyO4Ec?...
Such a great afternoon of poetry and prose! I was blown away by all the amazing work. (I'm about 15 min in FYI).
Such a great afternoon of poetry and prose! I was blown away by all the amazing work. (I'm about 15 min in FYI).
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Martha Silano from Presence '21 www.versedaily.org/2021/soulrec...
"It turns out gravity// doesn’t hold for souls; souls drift, like loons/ between dives, into eternity,//...//My travel speed is two inches per year,/ same as the moon from Earth. A little less bound by gravity./A little more free.
"It turns out gravity// doesn’t hold for souls; souls drift, like loons/ between dives, into eternity,//...//My travel speed is two inches per year,/ same as the moon from Earth. A little less bound by gravity./A little more free.
May 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Martha Silano from Presence '21 www.versedaily.org/2021/soulrec...
"It turns out gravity// doesn’t hold for souls; souls drift, like loons/ between dives, into eternity,//...//My travel speed is two inches per year,/ same as the moon from Earth. A little less bound by gravity./A little more free.
"It turns out gravity// doesn’t hold for souls; souls drift, like loons/ between dives, into eternity,//...//My travel speed is two inches per year,/ same as the moon from Earth. A little less bound by gravity./A little more free.
I received my contributor’s copy of Nelle in the mail a few days ago - so happy to have my poem “Breakfast: Beach” published by them. Thank you Lauren Slaughter and Kristin Entler; it’s a fantastic issue!
April 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I received my contributor’s copy of Nelle in the mail a few days ago - so happy to have my poem “Breakfast: Beach” published by them. Thank you Lauren Slaughter and Kristin Entler; it’s a fantastic issue!
I'm delighted to announce that "What the Officer Said" has been released in issue 89 by Bellingham Review!
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What the Officer Said - Bellingham Review
This city unstrings its fingerbones, unravels the dressI hide behind; doorsfixed shut, eyes on every clock blind. Solitaire cards played in the dark This
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April 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I'm delighted to announce that "What the Officer Said" has been released in issue 89 by Bellingham Review!
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bhreview.org/articles/wha...
I’m so happy to be part of Ploughshares! I had a fantastic time sitting at the Ploughshares booth with our managing editor Rachel Dillon. She’s amazing! 🩷
March 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I’m so happy to be part of Ploughshares! I had a fantastic time sitting at the Ploughshares booth with our managing editor Rachel Dillon. She’s amazing! 🩷
Fantastic first day at AWP! So thankful for all the old connections made in past years and renewed again and new connections made. There’s so much life-giving energy in this writing community!
March 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Fantastic first day at AWP! So thankful for all the old connections made in past years and renewed again and new connections made. There’s so much life-giving energy in this writing community!
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"I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego and where you're constantly focused on scoring hits against one another. Yes, we need a robust democracy, but you can be strong, and you can be kind." - Jacinda Ardern, former PM of New Zealand
March 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego and where you're constantly focused on scoring hits against one another. Yes, we need a robust democracy, but you can be strong, and you can be kind." - Jacinda Ardern, former PM of New Zealand
I'm thrilled to have two poems out in Pangyrus online! I love that they also asked me to write a short bit on the origin of each poem and why I chose to make the creative choices I did when writing them. ☺
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Breaks Things | Pangyrus
His smile corner-cracked, creases sticking, splinters from a rough railing I smooth with my hands, little pincushion girl, little bruises, broken toes, his ...
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March 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'm thrilled to have two poems out in Pangyrus online! I love that they also asked me to write a short bit on the origin of each poem and why I chose to make the creative choices I did when writing them. ☺
www.pangyrus.com/poetry/break...
www.pangyrus.com/poetry/debt-...
www.pangyrus.com/poetry/break...
www.pangyrus.com/poetry/debt-...
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"𝑅𝑒-𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒 / to bind again / the once-sundered / as earth and heaven / at Origin / this wonderous / stitching- / on-the-wing a rite / of morning / wren of bat / by night" Steve Myers "Powers on Podcast (Merwin in Mind)" in Presence 2024.
February 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"𝑅𝑒-𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒 / to bind again / the once-sundered / as earth and heaven / at Origin / this wonderous / stitching- / on-the-wing a rite / of morning / wren of bat / by night" Steve Myers "Powers on Podcast (Merwin in Mind)" in Presence 2024.
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"Give them wind tattering their dresses / Offer them salt from the hands of prisoners / gold from a field of rapeseed / Come, with your teeth in your pocket / Watch while they scatter the crystal" Lee Sharkey, "For the Ghosts" in Presence 2024.
January 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Give them wind tattering their dresses / Offer them salt from the hands of prisoners / gold from a field of rapeseed / Come, with your teeth in your pocket / Watch while they scatter the crystal" Lee Sharkey, "For the Ghosts" in Presence 2024.
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"Monkey ranks 19, dragon 20. Coming in at 37 out of 100,000?/ Tinkle. No idea why. My favorite is the pilgrim, supplicant,/ who tries to avoid red letter scolding and reset: letmein." Tina Kelley, "Lessons from the List of 100,000 Most Hacked Passwords" in Presence 2024.
January 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"Monkey ranks 19, dragon 20. Coming in at 37 out of 100,000?/ Tinkle. No idea why. My favorite is the pilgrim, supplicant,/ who tries to avoid red letter scolding and reset: letmein." Tina Kelley, "Lessons from the List of 100,000 Most Hacked Passwords" in Presence 2024.
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Staff Updates from 2024:
4) Presence poets Mia Schilling Grogan and Jana-lee Germaine now serve as Social Media Marketing Co-Managers and regularly post to Facebook, Instagram, X, and BlueSky. Find Mia’s at www.chc.edu/academics/fa.... Find Jana-Lee at janaleegermaine.com
4) Presence poets Mia Schilling Grogan and Jana-lee Germaine now serve as Social Media Marketing Co-Managers and regularly post to Facebook, Instagram, X, and BlueSky. Find Mia’s at www.chc.edu/academics/fa.... Find Jana-Lee at janaleegermaine.com
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December 30, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Staff Updates from 2024:
4) Presence poets Mia Schilling Grogan and Jana-lee Germaine now serve as Social Media Marketing Co-Managers and regularly post to Facebook, Instagram, X, and BlueSky. Find Mia’s at www.chc.edu/academics/fa.... Find Jana-Lee at janaleegermaine.com
4) Presence poets Mia Schilling Grogan and Jana-lee Germaine now serve as Social Media Marketing Co-Managers and regularly post to Facebook, Instagram, X, and BlueSky. Find Mia’s at www.chc.edu/academics/fa.... Find Jana-Lee at janaleegermaine.com
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"Help us to sing - / Even trees praise, and patterns / Of snow - though it's perilous this / Season, to go where we long to go." Sandra Duguid, "A Christmas Prayer" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry #christmaspoems
December 20, 2024 at 8:32 PM
"Help us to sing - / Even trees praise, and patterns / Of snow - though it's perilous this / Season, to go where we long to go." Sandra Duguid, "A Christmas Prayer" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry #christmaspoems
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"The apples may be cold and pockmarked and / the figs may be forbidden but you're still alive / more or less and you have your tongue and your spite / and other ingredients necessary for a summoning." Rebecca Bratten Weiss "Midway in the journey of our life" in Presence 2024.
December 13, 2024 at 11:27 PM
"The apples may be cold and pockmarked and / the figs may be forbidden but you're still alive / more or less and you have your tongue and your spite / and other ingredients necessary for a summoning." Rebecca Bratten Weiss "Midway in the journey of our life" in Presence 2024.
My boy is home for Thanksgiving!!! I’m so happy to have him back for a few days! 🩷
November 28, 2024 at 3:12 AM
My boy is home for Thanksgiving!!! I’m so happy to have him back for a few days! 🩷
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If you don't know this poet, you should. He died too early and I have carried this poem with me since his death in 2001. I believe everyone should know it... those last 2 lines.
From Rooms Are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali.
From Rooms Are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali.
November 20, 2024 at 4:07 PM
If you don't know this poet, you should. He died too early and I have carried this poem with me since his death in 2001. I believe everyone should know it... those last 2 lines.
From Rooms Are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali.
From Rooms Are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali.
I'm so honored and delighted to have my poem "February at the Johnson's" in the current issue of Water~Stone Review alongside absolute rock-star poets that I love! Thank you to Meghan Maloney-Vinz and all the other editors who worked so hard to put out such a fantastic and beautiful issue.
November 14, 2024 at 8:40 PM
I'm so honored and delighted to have my poem "February at the Johnson's" in the current issue of Water~Stone Review alongside absolute rock-star poets that I love! Thank you to Meghan Maloney-Vinz and all the other editors who worked so hard to put out such a fantastic and beautiful issue.