"This is a poetry that does more than survive in our collective memory: it flashes, it burns."
       -Aimee Nezhukumatathil about  Jennifer Jean's THE FOOL

Selected Poems

POEMS FROM "VOZ" and "THE PACIFIC":
​"Inspiration Point" - the Academy of American Poets
"The Pacific (There were no road rails)" - Poetry
"The Doors of Perception" - Poetry 
"Malibu Beach" - The Common
"California" - The Common
"The Pacific (If you pass them you curse them)" - On the Seawall
"Desperado" - On the Seawall
"Against the Wind" - On the Seawall
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" - On the Seawall
"Los Angeles" - DMQ Review
​"The Outsider Card in the Osho Zen Tarot" - MER
"The Pacific (Hope Is Not Canceled)" - Solstice
"We don't know who killed the peacocks in Palos Verdes." - Terrain
 "Poetry" - Mass Poetry's Hard Work of Hope
"Biodegradable" - SWWIM
​"Fire Followers" - River Mouth Review
"Nature" - MER

POEMS FROM "OBJECT LESSON":
"#CarryThatWeight" - Rattle
"Bird" - Rattle
"The Hero of Seymour Avenue" - Waxwing
"Object" - Waxwing
"Power Play" - Waxwing
"Thistle" - Broadsided Press
"'Escort' is her word &" - SWWIM
​"Amazing Grace" - Crab Creek Review
​"Grendel, 1971" - Solstice
"Object Lesson" - Rise Up Review

OTHER POEMS:
"Groundhog Day" - Anchor Magazine
"Don't Pick a Fight With a Poet" - Southampton Review
"Humpback Swallows Lobster Diver in Provincetown" - Rattle

Translations

"I Sleep In my Inkwell and Wave to the Distant" - Poetry
"The Jasmine Harvest" - Talking Writing
"Definitions" - The Common
"A Shadow" - The Common
​"Hamad on his way to the Massacre" - Consequence 
"Other Paths for Shahrazad" - Consequence
"My Body Is Mine" - Rattle (forthcoming)

(Photo by January O'Neil)
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