Jessica Cohn
@jescohn.bsky.social
Well, I write things. Mainly poetry these days.
This link takes you to samples and reviews from my first collection, GRATITUDE DIARY, along with a way to order the book:
https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/gratitude-diary-jessica-cohn/
This link takes you to samples and reviews from my first collection, GRATITUDE DIARY, along with a way to order the book:
https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/gratitude-diary-jessica-cohn/
Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience
Monday, November 24, noon to 1 pm, Capitola Branch Library
The poems of Jane Kenyon take the focus this month.
Discussions facilitated by a trio of Aptos poets. If you feel so moved, you're welcome to bring a poem of your own to read at the end.
Monday, November 24, noon to 1 pm, Capitola Branch Library
The poems of Jane Kenyon take the focus this month.
Discussions facilitated by a trio of Aptos poets. If you feel so moved, you're welcome to bring a poem of your own to read at the end.
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience
Monday, November 24, noon to 1 pm, Capitola Branch Library
The poems of Jane Kenyon take the focus this month.
Discussions facilitated by a trio of Aptos poets. If you feel so moved, you're welcome to bring a poem of your own to read at the end.
Monday, November 24, noon to 1 pm, Capitola Branch Library
The poems of Jane Kenyon take the focus this month.
Discussions facilitated by a trio of Aptos poets. If you feel so moved, you're welcome to bring a poem of your own to read at the end.
Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience
Monday 10.27 @ Capitola Branch Library, noon-1
We're going to share some Tony Hoagland. Join us.
Before I went to work on this planet
I signed a nondisclosure agreement with god . . .
from "Disclosure Agreement" By T.H.
Monday 10.27 @ Capitola Branch Library, noon-1
We're going to share some Tony Hoagland. Join us.
Before I went to work on this planet
I signed a nondisclosure agreement with god . . .
from "Disclosure Agreement" By T.H.
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience
Monday 10.27 @ Capitola Branch Library, noon-1
We're going to share some Tony Hoagland. Join us.
Before I went to work on this planet
I signed a nondisclosure agreement with god . . .
from "Disclosure Agreement" By T.H.
Monday 10.27 @ Capitola Branch Library, noon-1
We're going to share some Tony Hoagland. Join us.
Before I went to work on this planet
I signed a nondisclosure agreement with god . . .
from "Disclosure Agreement" By T.H.
As of Sunday, GRATITUDE DIARY: POEMS (Main Street Rag) is one year old. Still in the stroller.
October 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
As of Sunday, GRATITUDE DIARY: POEMS (Main Street Rag) is one year old. Still in the stroller.
Congrats to poets launching books or marking book birthdays. It's not easy to promote yourself--especially now. So we'll share your news in community on November 6th. Join us and meet others who might collaborate to help make your book's journey more enjoyable. Sign up NOW at saltandpoetry@gmail.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Congrats to poets launching books or marking book birthdays. It's not easy to promote yourself--especially now. So we'll share your news in community on November 6th. Join us and meet others who might collaborate to help make your book's journey more enjoyable. Sign up NOW at saltandpoetry@gmail.com
Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience
9.22 from noon to 1 p.m. @ Capitola (CA) Branch Library
Join us. This month we read Li-Young Lee:
The radio in the kitchen
is stuck in the year I was born.
The capitals of the world are burning.
from "Changing Places in the Fire," by Li-Young Lee
9.22 from noon to 1 p.m. @ Capitola (CA) Branch Library
Join us. This month we read Li-Young Lee:
The radio in the kitchen
is stuck in the year I was born.
The capitals of the world are burning.
from "Changing Places in the Fire," by Li-Young Lee
September 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience
9.22 from noon to 1 p.m. @ Capitola (CA) Branch Library
Join us. This month we read Li-Young Lee:
The radio in the kitchen
is stuck in the year I was born.
The capitals of the world are burning.
from "Changing Places in the Fire," by Li-Young Lee
9.22 from noon to 1 p.m. @ Capitola (CA) Branch Library
Join us. This month we read Li-Young Lee:
The radio in the kitchen
is stuck in the year I was born.
The capitals of the world are burning.
from "Changing Places in the Fire," by Li-Young Lee
If you told me five years ago this would be me on Tuesday night, I don't know. I likely would have grimaced and changed the subject. Seems you really can change up your life.
July 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
If you told me five years ago this would be me on Tuesday night, I don't know. I likely would have grimaced and changed the subject. Seems you really can change up your life.
Saturday. Post protest. To fellow readers Laura Bayless and Jennifer Lagier and the rest of Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium, thank you. Have long wondered what it would feel like to read with you in your beautiful space. Was heartening, can't thank you enough.
June 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Saturday. Post protest. To fellow readers Laura Bayless and Jennifer Lagier and the rest of Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium, thank you. Have long wondered what it would feel like to read with you in your beautiful space. Was heartening, can't thank you enough.
San Francisco. June 1. Bazaar Cafe Salon. Thanks to owners Josh and Rozanne. Thanks to host, Peter Kline. Thanks to Ayelet Amittay, Fatima Jafar, Brian Komei Dempster for sharing some of your bright light with me.
June 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
San Francisco. June 1. Bazaar Cafe Salon. Thanks to owners Josh and Rozanne. Thanks to host, Peter Kline. Thanks to Ayelet Amittay, Fatima Jafar, Brian Komei Dempster for sharing some of your bright light with me.
😍 San Diego poetry community. Heard from three SD poets laureate on critical need to support libraries plus major insights from the rest at the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize event last night. Each poet, so different. Each poem. Felt in fighting form against AI there. TY to all. Wow.
April 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
😍 San Diego poetry community. Heard from three SD poets laureate on critical need to support libraries plus major insights from the rest at the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize event last night. Each poet, so different. Each poem. Felt in fighting form against AI there. TY to all. Wow.
Gratitude Diary: POEMS took first place for poetry from the Great Northwest Book Festival (and still can be ordered from Main Street Rag, I should probably add).
As you were.
As you were.
March 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Gratitude Diary: POEMS took first place for poetry from the Great Northwest Book Festival (and still can be ordered from Main Street Rag, I should probably add).
As you were.
As you were.
I submitted poems again.
It's been a while.
It's been a while.
March 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I submitted poems again.
It's been a while.
It's been a while.
Glad for the chance to talk poetry on The Hive Sunday night. TY, Julie Murphy. (Show now archived on Spotify, link below)
open.spotify.com/episode/0IiX...
open.spotify.com/episode/0IiX...
February 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Glad for the chance to talk poetry on The Hive Sunday night. TY, Julie Murphy. (Show now archived on Spotify, link below)
open.spotify.com/episode/0IiX...
open.spotify.com/episode/0IiX...
Available at my local shops--Bookshop Santa Cruz and Two Birds Books in Pleasure Point--and online from the publisher mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/grat... Trying to get this first collection out there without using Amazon. My small press publisher is no oligarch. We'll see how it goes.
January 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Available at my local shops--Bookshop Santa Cruz and Two Birds Books in Pleasure Point--and online from the publisher mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/grat... Trying to get this first collection out there without using Amazon. My small press publisher is no oligarch. We'll see how it goes.
My first poetry book is now circulating in my library system and wow I wish my mom were alive
January 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
My first poetry book is now circulating in my library system and wow I wish my mom were alive
Inter / Act is a great group / venue.
Glad for the chance to help keep the poetry going into 2025.
Glad for the chance to help keep the poetry going into 2025.
January 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Inter / Act is a great group / venue.
Glad for the chance to help keep the poetry going into 2025.
Glad for the chance to help keep the poetry going into 2025.
I'm buying. (Thanks to the SDPA, the guild, and all involved. Submitting can be so thankless. Then comes a day.)
January 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I'm buying. (Thanks to the SDPA, the guild, and all involved. Submitting can be so thankless. Then comes a day.)
Still looking for interaction here, more like what I know at FB and knew at Twitter. Looking for poets. Not sure who will see this, but hey, ended up in Seattle for the New Year. Got great fireworks photos. But this says more of what I wish for you, Dear Reader. Let 2025 lift boats. Let's.
January 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Still looking for interaction here, more like what I know at FB and knew at Twitter. Looking for poets. Not sure who will see this, but hey, ended up in Seattle for the New Year. Got great fireworks photos. But this says more of what I wish for you, Dear Reader. Let 2025 lift boats. Let's.
Jessica Cohn
@jescohn.bsky.social
Got word a poem about my folks (such an original subject, right?) is out there as a finalist for the Steve Kowit Award. Could not be happier. TY, San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild. TY, readers who heard what needed to be said. Poetry is so random. I love it.
@jescohn.bsky.social
Got word a poem about my folks (such an original subject, right?) is out there as a finalist for the Steve Kowit Award. Could not be happier. TY, San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild. TY, readers who heard what needed to be said. Poetry is so random. I love it.
December 7, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Jessica Cohn
@jescohn.bsky.social
Got word a poem about my folks (such an original subject, right?) is out there as a finalist for the Steve Kowit Award. Could not be happier. TY, San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild. TY, readers who heard what needed to be said. Poetry is so random. I love it.
@jescohn.bsky.social
Got word a poem about my folks (such an original subject, right?) is out there as a finalist for the Steve Kowit Award. Could not be happier. TY, San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild. TY, readers who heard what needed to be said. Poetry is so random. I love it.
If I may. A local library rep informed me today that my first poetry collection is being placed in circulation. I feel the need to mark this moment. I know they no longer have those little pockets in the back where there's a card that everyone signs. But still. A moment.
November 26, 2024 at 7:00 AM
If I may. A local library rep informed me today that my first poetry collection is being placed in circulation. I feel the need to mark this moment. I know they no longer have those little pockets in the back where there's a card that everyone signs. But still. A moment.
Glad, so glad, for a chance to read in Ann Arbor on October 29. Thanks to Darcy Rhoden, owner of Booksweet, who brought the cookies and the warmest welcome, and to Ellen Stone, an extraordinary Michigan poet who arranged the whole thing. Her new book comes out soon.
November 11, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Glad, so glad, for a chance to read in Ann Arbor on October 29. Thanks to Darcy Rhoden, owner of Booksweet, who brought the cookies and the warmest welcome, and to Ellen Stone, an extraordinary Michigan poet who arranged the whole thing. Her new book comes out soon.
