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Jenny George

Jenny George is the author of The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). She is a winner of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a recipient of fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lannan Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in The New York TimesPloughsharesGrantaIowa ReviewFIELDLos Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. George lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she works in social justice philanthropy.

Poetry

Sept/Oct 2022

Jenny George

By Jenny George

Is a failure in the garden. Wherever she makes a hole, the earth slides back in urgently. Seeds won’t sprout for her; they won’t produce their yellow tongues. There’s just […]

Poetry

Sept/Oct 2022

Quantum

By Jenny George

A table. And on it a vase of flowering quince branches. But a table is only a joke the gods are making: continuous motion disguised as permanence, as a “place.” […]