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Jess Smith
Jess Smith
writer - editor - educator
Selected Poems
Two Poems at Sweet Literary Magazine
May 2023
"Training" at Verse Daily (originally in The Cincinnati Review)
September 2022
"Valentine" at Hayden's Ferry Review
April 2022
Two Poems at The Shore
March 2022
"Scold's Bridle" at Verse Daily (originally in Salt Hill)
May 2021
"Luster" at Verse Daily (originally in Southern Indiana Review)
June 2020
"Dark Hollow Falls" at Hoxie Gorge Review
August 2020
"Fire Breathing" at Rappahannock Review
January 2020
"Gather" at Southern Indiana Review
Fall 2019
"Two Truths & A Lie" at The Shallow Ends
December 2018
September 2018
"Summons" at Four Way Review
April 2018
"Things People Say to Me After" at The Rumpus
April 2018
"Lady Smith" at 32 Poems
January 2018
"Path of Totality" at Cincinnati Review miCRo
October 2017
"Encore" at Juked
July 2017
Three Poems at Heavy Feather Review
Summer 2017, #NotMyPresident Issue
Three Poems at Waxwing Literary Journal
October 2016
Selected Prose & Criticism
"Kissification and its Consequences: On Ann Townsend’s Dear Delinquent" at Kenyon Review Online
March 2020
"War Gets Everything It Comes For: On Diana Khoi Nguyen's Ghost Of" at Kenyon Review Online
January 2019
"#JennyToo" at Avidly
October 2017
"Repeat" at Front Porch Journal
March 2017
Review of Fever Dream at M-Dash
January 2017
"Various Kinds of Torment" at The Best American Poetry Blog
January 2015
"Enough" at The Best American Poetry Blog
December 2014
Bio
Originally from Georgia, Jess Smith is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice at Texas Tech University. Her poetry, essays, and criticism can be found in Prairie Schooner, Waxwing, 32 Poems, The Rumpus, and other journals. She received her MFA from The New School and is the recipient of support from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Vermont Studio Center.
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