Poetry
Jessica’s chapbook, We Were More than Kindling is forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press in October, 2023. The manuscript was a finalist for the 2019 Button Poetry Chapbook contest.
Jessica's full length manuscript, You're Lucky to Get Touched at All, was a finalist for the 2019 Autumn House Press Poetry Contest, Trio House Press's 2018 Louise Bogan Award, and the Sibling Rivalry 2018 open reading period. An abbreviated, chapbook version of the manuscript for You’re Lucky to Get Touched at All was a finalist for the 2018 Two Sylvias chapbook prize. Her chapbook manuscript, Power Plays, was a finalist for the 2016 Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Competition, a semi-finalist for the spring 2017 Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook Competition, and a finalist for the 2018-19 Glass Chapbook Series.
2021
Heavy Feather Review - Two Poems
2019
Rascal Literary Journal - Four Poems
Pacifica Review - Kissing Against Solipsism
The Rupture (FKA The Collagist) - Who Cares About Causality
Berfrois - Who Cares About Consent, The Passage
RHINO Poetry - Toponymy of Entitlement
The North American Review - [gifts]
2018
Maudlin House - Failed Prodigal
Epigraph - Summoning Mania, I’ll Sleep When I’m Alive
Fugue - To the Estate of
apt - How Long Until
New South - Abecedarian for Self-Care and Wellness
Cotton Xenomorph - On My Deathbed
Sundog Lit - Letters from Our Future Selves, Climate Adaptation Planning
The Boiler - To Quantify Exposure, Exercises in Futility
Anti-Heroin Chic - The Dangers of Boredom
Rogue Agent - To My Emotions,
Tinderbox - Honest, Microclimates
Prairie Schooner - Excerpt: Sandy's Diary
Sycamore Review - Irresistible
Barzakh Magazine - A Burn a Burn, Medusa's Snakes Simper All at Once, Alleged Pedophile Rode His Horse into the Polls, I Came to Explore the Wreck
Vinyl Poetry - Serfdom is a Shadow's Versatility
Stirring Lit - Thirst Trap
Prism Review - Promise to Recede (winner of the 2018 Prism Review Poetry Contest)
Tammy - Almost Too Personal Details About Her, The Interns are Sweet Sensitive Boys (print)
Hobart - Glossary of Coping Mechanisms
Lunch - Prophylactic Routine
Barrelhouse's online POP Love! feature - Head / Heart, Our Garden of Spoiler Alerts Flourishes
Pretty Owl Poetry - Bad Love Grammar
2017
Dialogist - Exit Interview
Menacing Hedge - Salt Already She Melts in the Rain; Refusing the Transmission, In for the Evening (Salt Already nominated for the 2018 Best of the Net)
Curious Specimens Anthology (Sundress Publications) - [words of affirmation], [acts of service]
Permafrost - The Control Sample is Gaslit, Headcase Economics, [quality time]
Prism Review - Hidden Man Beneath the Blue Room, How to Sleep Through Three Weekends in a Row, [acts of service], Orb Weaver
Ghost Proposal - As Addictive as Sugar & My Own Sadness, Forward, We Attempt to Divest Ourselves of Linear Temporality in Grand Isle Louisiana, Rubberneck Diorama
Passages North - Teachers Tell Me that from Far (nominated for 2017 Best of the Net)
2016
The Academy of American Poets - Your Title Could Be Doing a Lot More (also in print in Ellipses)
Pleiades - I Am Bikini Atoll
Iron Horse Literary Review - Uncle Sam's Shadow Rattles Change (print - issue 18.6)
Juked - Whatever Tape You Found in That VCR, It Isn’t Mine
Whiskey Island - Suppose Loneliness (print)
Apogee Journal - Mad Girl Blows the Very Male Sun, Hey Scully, Is This Boyish Display of Agility Turning You On at All?, Relax, and That’s an Order
The Pinch - If I Had (print, 2016 Best New Poets nomination)
scissors & spackle - Authority, Mediation (print)
Dirty Chai - Turn Down for What(ever)
Cleaver - Inheritance
Vinyl Poetry & Prose - [gifts], Wherein I Make a Reliable Bloodsnack
decomP - Wax/Wane
Yes, Poetry - “Something Tidal” and “The Truth is Out There Mulder, but So Are the Lies” (+ interview)
The Fem - Here to Be Taken Advantage of, Dirt Heart
2015
The Boiler Journal - Wine Dark Sea, Interval
noble / gas qtrly - Two Narrative Constructs Navigate a Conflict of Interests
Apeiron Review - Irony Sleeps Hot, One Leg Out (p. 43)
The Meadow - Turn, Turn
Shuf Poetry - Intention Setting
Superstition Review - High-Risk Behaviors
Crack the Spine - On Colorblindness in Cephalopods
Sweet: A Literary Confection - Landfall
2014
The North American Review - Taste (print)
2013
Ilk Journal - Snap(shot/judgment), Epithalamium
Vinyl Poetry - Mediation, Letter Home
The Buddhist Poetry Review - Spoils (of)
Cleaver Magazine - Once Again, Different Now, Moratorium
2012
Cordite - Upstream
The Literary Bohemian - Gift of Nous