Can’t Complain, Really
“I can feel Autumn around the corner…”
Years Ago, I Was Told All My Dreams Would Come True
“I feel I have been many places. I feel I’m remembering them all at once.”
Here’s The Thing About Me: I’m Not Going To Give Up No Matter What You Tell Me
“Isn’t it nice not to be in your own way anymore?”
Homesicle
Maybe doing things from a state of “unhinged” is something you’ve never tried before. Maybe it feels good when you do.
Cold Snap: Poem + Sad News
This is so midwest
Solstice: A Poem
Cold hands shock skin into submissive defense.
Sunshine Blogger Award 2026
I’ve been nominated
The Jam Files: ‘The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most Turns 25’
Dashboard Confessional’s second album was released on March 20, 2001
Crooked Tree Ekphrastic Event, February 2026
Three poems
The Jam Files: John Richard Paul’s New Album ‘Midwestern Modesty’
“Sometimes records kick you right in the feels…”
The Jam Files: Fall Out Boy – The Lost Songs
“…you’ll have to look beyond the CDs…”
What Else Is There To Do When The World’s On Fire Except Fangirl Until Your Lungs Give Out?
“I’m deep diving early basement shows…”
V Day, A Poem
I feel a grape in my temporal lobe
Whatever Makes Things a Little Easier
I find myself falling apart over the silliest things & I don’t like that.
Someday It Will Be Safe To Write About Everything
Stress makes everything worse.
First Snow
A poem + reflection on my favorite season
Published Poems at Cereal City Review + Life Update
“I don’t know how to sugarcoat it, so I’m not going to…”
And Then The Timeline Overlaps
wondering what it means/to be made aware of/pieces of me
Paroxysmal
You become a spectacle no matter how much you abhor the spotlight.
“Lumerian” over at The Beatnik Cowboy
New published poem
Time For Change (Addendum)
“…see you on the other side, my friend…”
Time For Change
This brings me to an announcement…
Poem & Interview In The Rappahannock Review
“Fatherly Advice” published in the Spring Issue
Poets’ Night Out 2025
My poem “Petoskey”
“The Lake Sturgeon” in The Dunes Review
“…they say a female nmé can live 150 years,…”
‘Blood In Winter’ – 1st Place Winner of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies Quarterly Membership Contest
“…scented of earth and coffee…”
The Poet Life
“For 2025 the only thing I told myself I wanted to do was be a poet.”
Contest Poems in Peninsula Poets
“Visions Again” & “Michigama”
Interwoven — An Ekphrastic Poem
“A spark beat the heart alive and became the true origin of fire…”
“Ghost Tea” Published in Harmony Lit Magazine
“And who else drank from this chipped cup?”
“Glower” in The Winged Moon Magazine
“seized in obsidian, the sentinel’s glare declares migratory disorder”
I Can Almost Say I Survived This Summer
I’m ready for cold weather, crisp leaves, & cleansing snowfall.
“Niiyaw” Published in Persephone Literary
Debut issue
I Cannot Tell July
I exist in fragments. At least that’s what my mind tries to do most of the time.
2 Poems @ Fevers of the Mind Today
“Spring Haze” & “Scarlet Keeps Bees & Sleeps With Monarchs”
‘Petals of Haiku’ Official Release Day!
New published haiku
“Always the hours…”
“I’ve been working on poetry every chance I get…”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 30
Two Live Readings
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 29
“Wrong”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 28
“Taste Testing”
NaPoWrimo 2024 — Day 27
Magnetic Poem
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 26
“Exchange”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 25
“mezzogiorno (12 PM)”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 24
“Eruption”
The Next Step In My Poetic Journey
“I believe people when they tell me I’m talented. I do feel that I possess a knack for words and sometimes I can get it down in such a way that I’m very happy with.”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 23
“I Can Tell When You’ve Visited”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 22
“Bright Hours”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 21
“Downtown Days”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 20
“Just Let Me”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 19
“Tortured”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 18
“Storm”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 17
“Denial For Detachment”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 16
a haiku
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 14
“Reduction Efforts”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 13
“Make a Wish”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 12
“Petals”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 11
“Hannah In Her Dirt”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 10
“Convalesce”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 9
“Simple”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 8
“Afflicted”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 7
“Spun”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 6
An untitled draft
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 5
“A Difference of Opinion Is Not An Apocalypse”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 3
“Coddle”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 2
“Occultation”
NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 1
“Amicable”
“It’s Your Water, Too” — On “Bad River: A Story of Defiance”
Bad River: A Story of Defiance is in theaters from March 15th – March 20th
False Spring, Music Writing, & ‘House of Leaves’
I’m still a busy little bee
Goop
“Great. It’s infected.”
Rest, Reading, Records
I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again, life is busy when you actually have one.
New Anthology from Fevers of the Mind out today!
Fevers of the Mind Poetry, Art & Music 9: Essentials From the Net 2019-2023 Issue 1
I Finally Saw Thursday in Concert
Allow me to tell you about how I came to fall in love with this band.
Three Poems @ New Eden Ministry Blog
Three poems featured
Sleepless
I missed its stellar kisses
Reclaim
What if I leave everything be
The Jam Files #18 — “Christmas Eve”
End of the Year
Favorite Things
I’d breathe them out in ice fractals, in the crisp fog of my mouth just before the snowfall.
The Jam Files #17 — “The Cute”
“What’s this? She likes cute things? Dark, sad, poet Jenn likes cute things?”
The Jam Files #16 — “Taking Notes”
This is the stream of conscious stuff that’s messing up my focus. I have no linear thought. Everything keeps getting jumbled, but this isn’t a complaint.
The Jam Files #15 — “What is this ‘happiness’ that you speak of?”
On happy places & monetizing the craft.
Ian Curtis Inspired Poems + Birding Adventure
A whole new world opened up as soon as I looked through the lenses.
The Jam Files #14.2 — “On the Powwow Trail Part II”
“If I go out there during the Veteran’s Song are you going to cry?”
The Jam Files #14.1 — “On the Powwow Trail”
I couldn’t help myself, I cried the moment the drums started…
The Jam Files #13 — “I’m in Love with This Place”
…when five people in a row said hi to me while I was walking the trail, I burst into tears saying “Everyone is so nice here!”…
“Waltzin’ Through Rusty Cages: Poetry & Art Inspired by Elliott Smith & Chris Cornell”
New Fevers of the Mind Anthology
The Jam Files #12 — “Bound for the Homeland”
Move update
UPDATED: Poetry Showcase @ Fevers of the Mind
“Heather Donahue in Voice-Over”, “Harlequin Frames”, “Baby, This Ain’t Elm Street”, “Hecatomb”, & “I Often Have Nostalgia For Things That Never Happened”
NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 28: “Cowboy”
two minutes here in the belly of this canyon contains eternities
NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 27: “Fremont Farewell”
you can’t hold on to hell too tightly
NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 25: “Lifeboat”
we are each a thread in the tapestry
NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 24: “Sentinels”
This one’s just a start
NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 15: “Festival Days”
these are festival days — hot, sticky adventures where music is the thing
NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 14: “Cami”
in the city that carved her name from old bones and crumbling tombstones
NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 10: “He Holds Me Through It”
a choice questioned is silenced by the sweetest kiss
NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 1: “L’Excuse”
medicine grows from the fertile ground to cradle deep soul wounds
A Cornered Gurl 6 Word Story Challenge
6 Word Story Challenge
The Jam Files #11 — Jet Lagged Edition
I’m existing as a shadow who can’t find the body it belongs to.
Haibun published over @ A Cornered Gurl
“Trying to Catch Dust in a Windstorm”
Happy Halloween!
Some of my microfiction included in the “#horrorprompt Anthology Volume 1”
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