Jennifer Perrine's Blog - Posts Tagged "journals"

Check out the lovely Spring 2014 issue of The Account! Thanks to the editors for including two of my poems, “Humility | Pride” and “Envy | Kindness.” I loved writing my account and reading the accounts of other writers.

Another new poem, “After My Mother’s Death, I Feel Nothing,” is out in the new issue of Bellevue Literary Review. It’s a journal I’ve admired for quite some time, and I’m excited to have my work included.

The Spring 2014 issue of Crazyhorse features new work by some of my favorite poets--Lisa Fay Coutley, Terrance Hayes, Rebecca Hazelton, and Jamaal May, among others. It also includes two new poems of mine, "Patience | Wrath" and "The Blessed Girl, after Her Visions and Vows."

New issues of two great journals, Meridian and Revolution House, are now available online. Meridian includes my poem, "Piblokto," and Revolution House was kind enough to publish two of my poems, "Yoke" and "Temperance | Gluttony." Thanks to the editors of both journals!

This month, I've got new poems out in three journals:

"Wild Child (Slight Return)" in Paterson Literary Review
"Letter to Half a Lifetime Ago" in North American Review
and
"A Theory of Violence [In the museum of sex...]" and "Embarrassment: from baraço (halter)" in New Ohio Review

John Hoppenthaler also included three of my poems--"The Mystic Speaks of Attachment," "Lust | Chastity," and "Mobility"--in the September 2014 Congeries at Connotation Press.

Thanks to all the editors for shepherding these poems into the world!

The new issue of Adrienne appeared on my doorstep yesterday, and I've been using my extra "fall back" hour this morning to enjoy its poetry.

Thanks to Valerie Wetlaufer for including my poems in this lovely issue, as well as for introducing me to so many amazing queer writers.

Autumn is rolling in, heralded here by a string of overcast days, the slightest hint of yellow in the maples, and swifts roosting in chimneys. It only seems appropriate that I've been writing about transformations and cycles, about new beginnings and the endings they sometimes entail. One of those poems is out now in Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color. It cheers me that the poem, "We Have Come to the End of the Oyster Months," found its way into the world just as September returns us to oyster season, the delicious lushness that only comes with cold weather. It also cheers me to be counted among other poets I adore: June Jordan, whose "Poem about Police Violence" is just as relevant today as when she wrote it; Tatiana De LA Tierra, who sings the praises of "unsavory lesbians"; Julian Randall, writing of how origin is bound up with trauma; Ocean Vuong, in an interview on pop culture, colloquialisms, and common ground; and Brenda Shaughnessy, eloquent as always, talking about embarrassment and fear and music and desire. "Poets can't beat time," Shaughnessy says, so as we all hustle toward the equinox, may there be dancing in your September, and only blue talk and love.