Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level (Graywolf Press, 2018), selected by Juan Felipe Herrera as the winner of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and Nowhere to Arrive (Northwestern University Press, 2017), recipient of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. Her poems appear in Kenyon Review Online, Poetry, American Poetry Review, New Republic, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and support from Kundiman, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and Poets & Writers.
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2021
Memory Soldier
In June 2020, the photographer Li Zhensheng dies on a hospital bed in Queens, New York, of a cerebral hemorrhage, at the age of 79. A torn color. That red […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2021
Expenditures
Soft, that tear of water. Which signals dreaming’s low boiling point. I draw down my eyelids, turn my head. Here, the camera fuzzes. What remains out of focus is the […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2021
Unit of Measure
Bees keep no appointments. They rasp open the lid of each day to dip into fool’s filling. Meanwhile, there are those in temples who bring the breath to the body’s […]
Mar/Apr 2018
Visual Orders; Inwardly
Visual Orders [1] Harvest the eyes from the ocular cavities. Complete in themselves: a pair of globes with their own meridians. [2] What atrophies without the […]