Jenny Molberg’s third poetry collection, The Court of No Record (LSU Press, 2023), was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Her poems and essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, The American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Oprah Quarterly, and other publications. A National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Molberg is Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing and Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares at Emerson College.
Poetry
Spring 2025
Mom’s Portrait of Me
The Kenyon Review · “Mom’s Portrait” by Jenny Molberg My body is unlovable is the phraseI repeat back to my therapistto unravel its falsehood.At twelve I didn’t exist except asthe […]
Poetry
Spring 2025
Freefall
The Kenyon Review · “Freefall” by Jenny Molberg Helen Frankenthaler, 1992There is a little girl who lost her brotherbut cannot understand. My baby couldn’t stay,she says. In many ways, this […]
