Also check out poems by Ed Skoog, Claire Donato, and Ali Power’s “Kissing in Public.”
My review of “Hollywood Starlet” by Ivy Alvarez is up at TheThePoetry.com’s Infoxicated Corner today.
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens reviews Hollywood Starlet
Disguises unravel: “I’m committed to my paper bag, my asylum of sweetness…”
I’ve got two poems in Issue 41 of Otoliths today: (My “Time” poem is sort of about not wanting to go into the basement, and “Seven Way to Disappear.”) I was introduced to some really great poets in this issue! Also the “Ghost Frog” art is killer.
I’m so thrilled that Stalking Horse Press is going to publish my collection “The Messenger is Already Dead” in spring of 2017.
.Here is my poem in Issue 4 of Pittsburgh Poetry Houses!
You can read the poem online here
“Clementine Looks Back on her Life as a Bareback Rider.”
These little booklets are all over Pittsburgh. Such a cool project. Thank you to Sarah Boyle and the PPH crew.
I have five poems in the latest issue of The Birds We Piled Loosely.
You can read Issue 7 here.
I have to say that I wrote these poems after watching several Guillermo del Toro movies in a row. Anne Gorrick has an amazing poem in this issue called “His Darkest Materials Need her Needs.”
The Fem: Wrong Car | Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
I was always getting into the wrong car. Ox blood shoes tapped against cement You weren’t afraid of color at night The hair of the dog that bit me lays beside me: a ford truck torso Your crumpled c…
My poem “Give up the saw Jennifer” is up at The Bracken today.
The first issue of Pittsburgh Poetry Houses is available for purchase!
You can purchase Issue 1 here for $6. This is such a cool project!
poems by: Ellen Achilles Kombiyil, Michalle Gould, Angele Ellis, Margot Douaihy, Anna Leahy, Scott Thomas Outlar, Kelly Scarff, Meghan Tutolo, Jennifer MacBain-stephens, Arlene Weiner, Leah Mueller, Erin Taylor, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Shannon Sankey, Tammy Bendetti, Robin Turner.
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens 