Jessica Johnson
Jessica Johnson writes poetry, nonfiction, and things in between. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Paris Review, The Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, and Tin House, among others. Her chapbook In Absolutes We Seek Each Other is available from New Michigan Press. She is an Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient and an Oregon Book Award Finalist. Her work has been nominated for Pushcart prizes and Best of the Net. She lives in Portland,Oregon and teaches at Portland Community College.
Here are some things people have said about her work:
"[In Absolutes We Seek Each Other] excels at exploring the tension between simple existence and imagination." -Poetry Northwest
"For a moment, reader, as you orient yourself in one of Jessica Johnson’s poems, you might classify a scene as quiet and scientific, or moody, wet, and metrical; then a shift and, god, it’s luminous and grief-struck and haunting and it’s yours. Jessica Johnson is a true discovery." -Kathleen Flenniken
“Johnson’s poems are acts of kinship-in-strangeness with the natural world. Even the slightest creatures are alive with vision." - Joanna Klink
Here are some things people have said about her work:
"[In Absolutes We Seek Each Other] excels at exploring the tension between simple existence and imagination." -Poetry Northwest
"For a moment, reader, as you orient yourself in one of Jessica Johnson’s poems, you might classify a scene as quiet and scientific, or moody, wet, and metrical; then a shift and, god, it’s luminous and grief-struck and haunting and it’s yours. Jessica Johnson is a true discovery." -Kathleen Flenniken
“Johnson’s poems are acts of kinship-in-strangeness with the natural world. Even the slightest creatures are alive with vision." - Joanna Klink