Jennifer Militello is the author of Body Thesaurus (Tupelo Press 2013) and Flinch of Song, winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Paris Review, New Republic, North American Review, and Best New Poets 2008.
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2019
Diffusion of Responsibility
Such is life. Such is fate. One thrives while another falls. One predator, another prey. Do not see yourself in me. Do not see the child in me, or mother […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2015
Nkisi Nkondi
This striking figure, with its serenely rendered face and violently pierced body, was made to contain and direct a spirit in order to assist people in need. —Art Institute of […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2015
Oxymoronic Love
Hatred is the new love. Rage is right. Touch is touch. The collars of the coat, turned down, point up. The corners of our hearts are smoothed with rough. Our […]
Poetry
Summer 2011
A Dictionary in the Voice of Icarus
The wing is interrupted by a water made of trees. Wing of straw. Wing of whispers. The wing is interrupted by diamonds and the feathers smile like a scar might, […]
Poetry
Spring 2008
Personality State: Prophet
I asked to be made in the image of the Lord, as an ode to a god I’d forgotten. I paled like a throat of birch. I paled at the […]
Poetry
Spring 2008
Personality State: Scavenger’s Daughter
I want to look prim if not proper, twist modestly if not sedate. I want to give fate a reason to hate me and exhaust me and lick me up. […]
Jennifer Militello
Jennifer Militello is the author of Flinch of Song, winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, New Republic, North American Review, and […]