JESSICA E. JOHNSON
  • Metabolics
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  • Metabolics
  • About
  • Events
  • Writing
  • In Absolutes We Seek Each Other
  • Contact
JESSICA E. JOHNSON

selected works

​BOOKS

Metabolics, forthcoming from Acre Books in February 2023
In Absolutes We Seek Each Other, New Michigan Press, Oregon Book Award finalist

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SELECTED POEMS ETC.
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The Shame of It - The Paris American (forthcoming)
Rabbits - Sixth Finch 
Of Daylight Saving Time, My Fitness Pal, and Indoor/Outdoor Cats - DIAGRAM 
Herein & Of Small Devices - Interim 
Four Visual Poems -  Dream Pop
Two Poems -  Four Way Review
Of Winter Gardens, Confections & Routine Holiday Stress - Burning House Press
Girl - Poetry Northwest, Vandal Poem of the Day, Pushcart-nominated
Nine Haiku from a College with Open Admissions - The Account, Best of the Net-nominated
Freight- DIAGRAM
​Overheard at the Zoo - Broadsided Press
The Understory - Public Pool
A World - Public Pool
Tonight's Anatomy - Tin House
Barnacles - Subtropics
Jellyfish - Prairie Schooner, Verse Daily
Tonight's Anatomy - Cortland Review
Moon Snail - Paris Review
White - Burnside Review, Verse Daily
       
Podcast reading for : Multnomah County Library April 2016   
     

ESSAYS & REVIEWS
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The Ghost Road - ​The Southeast Review (forthcoming)

Who's Afraid of the Cumulative Sentence? On Janice Lee's Imagine a Death: A Novel - Annulet Poetics
The Polaroid Baby & the Shape of Time
- River Teeth 
Haunted Math: On Theorem by Elizabeth Bradfield and Antonia Contro - DIAGRAM 
Supporting Details (about teaching reading, in Entropy's Literacy Narrative series)
Beyond and Behind and Before the Science News (about Jena Osman's Motion Studies and Franny Choi's Soft Science in Poetry Northwest online)
Actual-Miraculous (about a poem by Martha Silano on 32 Poems' blog)
The Intertidal Zone (about aquariums in Brain, Child​, Pushcart-nominated)
Almost Home (about moving to Portland, on Tin House's blog)
The Evolution of the Peppered Moth (about working in a plant genomics lab, in the Harvard Review)


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MENTIONS
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