Author: jennifermacbainstephens
Jennifer is a writer who currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa where she is landlocked. She writes poetry, hikes, takes photos, makes collages, bikes, and rock climbs. She works at a science journal. She also wrote four YA non-fiction books a world of time ago when she lived in NYC.
Thanks to Michael Shields for publishing three of my poems in Across the Margin, Two are erasures from Exit to Eden by Anne Rice.
Thanks to Kristin Garth for publishing my Suspiria inspired poem in “PinkFlix” at Pink Plastic House last week! Click on the link to read.
I am honored to have 2 poems in Volume II of Oye Drum, the sci fi and fantasy issue. About Oye Drum: OyeDrum is a combination of the word Oye, which translates into “Listen Up,” and the word Drum, repurposed by black activist, feminist, performance artist, poet, and secular priestess, Jayne Cortez in response to Duke Ellington’s composition A Drum is a Woman. In her poem If the Drum is a Woman, Cortez personifies the drum into a woman while taking a painful critical look at societal hypocrisy of the treatment and discussion around women, especially women of color, crying out against sexism and violence towards women, while giving solutions in her advisement towards social change in the better treatment of our “drums”:
This reading is happening tonight! Come check it out! Tues. 7pm Central time. Must register at link to join. Free!
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens 