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Jennifer Jean

Jennifer Jean’s debut poetry collection is The Fool (Big Table); and, her awards include: a 2020 Kenyon Writers Review Workshop Fellowship, a 2018 Disquiet FLAD Fellowship; a 2017 “Her Story Is” Residency—where she worked with Iraqi women artists in Dubai; and, a 2013 Ambassador for Peace Award for her activism in the arts. Jennifer’s poems and co-translations have appeared in: Poetry Magazine, Rattle Magazine, Waxwing Journal, Crab Creek Review, Green Mountains Review, DMQ Review, Southampton Reivew, The Common, and more. She’s an editor at Talking Writing Magazine and a teacher of art-writing at Mass College of Art and Design. For more info, visit: http://www.jenniferjeanwriter.weebly.com

By Jennifer Jean

Hope Is Not Canceled

by Jennifer Jean

Without a boogie board, you’d fling your body into the curve of the Pacific. Without baby oil, you’d still burn & be tender for days. Without a blanket, you’d drop your faded Eddie shirt, sit—or later, shake it out & mop off the salt. Without shades, you’d razor your hand like a visor—squint at five

National Poetry Month 2020

Grendel, 1971

by Jennifer Jean

There’s a fist
making its way up the Venice boardwalk,
a cocked fist aiming. Its name

Winter 2017

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