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Jenny Molberg

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

By Jenny Molberg

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

By Jenny Molberg

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 […]