Jessie Janeshek

Jessie Janeshek's chapbooks Spanish Donkey/Pear of Anguish and Rah-Rah Nostalgia are forthcoming from Grey Book Press and dancing girl press respectively. Invisible Mink is her full-length collection (Iris Press, 2010). An Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing at Bethany College, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. She co-edited the literary anthology Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (KWG Press, 2008).

NO PLACE FOR DAMES is out from Grey Book Press!

Hardscape is out from Reality Beach!

Channel U is out from Grey Book Press!

MADCAP is available from Stalking Horse Press!

Work Online

“The Descent of Louise Brooks Matches My Mood” and three other poems, Big Other

“I Get the Spins at Point Pleasant” and three other poems, Shock of the Femme

“Every Woman’s Mending Guide,” Glint

“Annual Verification,” “Louise Crooks Too,” and “Witchboard,” OyeDrum

“The Calendar Is Front-Loaded,” Psaltery & Lyre

“Trouble in Paradise” and seven more poems, Otoliths

“Trampoline Bleach,” giallo

“If a Factory Is Too Literal, What about a Cemetery?” sein und werden

“Star One,” Rabid Oak

“Strawberry Switchblade” and two more poems, Black Telephone Magazine

Five poems, including the first-place-winning “I Can’t Finish the Jazz Age; It’s Unnatural,” Everything in Aspic

“What’s the Fever, Big Star?” and “Little Ways to Know This Made Sense at the Time,” Feral: a Journal of Literature and Art

“Faithless/Driven Slush” and “Loose Ankles/Star Faithless,” pioneertown

“No Bones/No Beach” and “Gift Horse/Snow/You Come and Go,” the Squawk Back

“Model Nostalgia/Model Pornography,” and three other poems, Biscuit Root Drive

“Run It up the Flagpole and See,” The Gravity of the Thing

“Roadblock/Family Curses,” Burning House Press

“It’s a Canned Picture, and I’m Trapped on a Speedboat,” Prelude

Two poems, petrichor

Five poems, “Novelette Solstice,” Tragickal

Three poems, Queen Mob’s Teahouse

Five poems, Big Other

“Suppose I Turn the Heat on Myself,” Barren Magazine

Six poems, talking about strawberries all of the time

Two poems, South Broadway Ghost Society

Four poems, Heavy Feather Review

Four Madcap poems, Otoliths

“Auto-Monroe/Pre-Amplified Splice,” Redheaded Stepchild

“Madcap/We Touch Base as Harlots,” Uppagus

“Madcap/Kitten Flick,” Blue Fifth Review

“Madcap/Outlaw,” Pouch

“Madcap/Champagne Hours,” The Hunger

“Madcap/Pure Ice,” Uppagus

“Bombshell Planchette/Why Can’t You Manage Platinum?” Vagabond City

“House of Wax/Rewind,” SCAB

"We Bathe the World/Bathhouse Pageant," Glass: A Journal of Poetry

"Toy Gun Commercial," Leveler

"Madcap/Depressive Hedonia," Uppagus

Five poems, glitterMOB

"Madcap/Babylights" in Sad Girl Review

Three poems, Burning House Press' Liminal Spaces Issue

Three poems, Spider Mirror Journal  

"Madcap/Touch Up" in Blue Fifth Review

"Screwball in Brownville," MUSH/MUM

Six poems, where is the river :: a poetry experiment

Two Channel U poems, indicia

"Madcap in the Dark," Uppagus

Four Nebraska City poems, taxicab magazine

Four poems, Sporklet

Six poems, Otoliths

Three Channel U poems, Menacing Hedge

Eight Nebraska City poems, Mannequin Haus

Six Auto-Harlow poems, Vanilla Sex Magazine 

"It's Hard to Believe Anything in Your Life Could Be Clean," Hardly Doughnuts

"Bombshell/Teensploitation," Pom Pom

Two poems, Bad Pony Magazine

Four Channel U poems, (the) Squawk Back

Three Channel U poems, Occulum

Nine poems in Rag Queen Periodical

"Watching Horror/Watching Harlow," Really System 

Two Channel U poems, gobbet

"Your Hair the Crown You Never Take Off," Uppagus

Five noir-y poems, Potluck Mag (start with "Day 5" and keep clicking "older")

Two poems, Seafoam Mag

"Sparkle Plenty," Vagabond City

"Magnetron Blonde," Drunk in a Midnight Choir

Three Auto-Harlow poems,  Anti-Heroin Chic

Four poems, Plinth

"Horror is the Sinus Leading Away from the Abscess," Rogue Agent

Two poems, MISTRESS

Two poems, Queen of Cups

 "Bell Book and Cradle/Barefoot Pink Saint," Uppagus

Two poems, Cosmonauts Avenue

"Noirpoem #2/Afterbite," Killer Whale Journal 

"Young and Alive," Shabby Doll House

 Two Poems, Deluge

Two poems, Fuck Art, Let's Dance #013

Five poems in Varsity Goth's Coffin Corner

"Magicicada/Auto Shut-off," Tallow Eider Quarterly

Two poems, Peach Mag

"Two Bird Control Center," The Opiate

"Two Bird Control Center Two," The Opiate

Six poems, Quail Bell Magazine

Three poems, Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal (Issue 41)

Two poems, Spilled Milk Magazine

“Skull Percent Off,” concīs

Five poems, gobbet

"Take Me Out/Tell Me My Name,Alyss

"Honest Women Are Nothing When You Cannot Get," Pith

"You Don’t Know Supernoir/How It Felt to Bend Over You," SUSAN

Three poems, FRiGG

"Gather Around Obsession," Vagabond City Literary Journal

"We’re Going Back to the Woodline," Wherewithal

Three poems, Pretty Owl Poetry

Two poems, The Birds We Piled Loosely

Six poems, Otoliths 42

"You Can Sing Any Two Songs Together If You Slow Them Down Long Enough," Pouch 6

"I Love a Good Twin Show or a False Solstice," Anthropoid

 "I Caught a Good One. It Looked Like It Could Run," Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal [seems to be defunct]

“I Can Almost Pretend I’m Shush-Done with Texas” Amethyst Arsenic [seems to be defunct]

“For Sale, Skull Chalet,” {Prong & Posy}

Two Hardscape poems, Toad 6:2

Four poems, Anti-Heroin Chic

Two poems, The Riding Light Review [seems to be defunct]

Two poems, Fuck Art, Let’s Dance #012

Six poems, Uut Poetry

Three Hardscape poems, fog machine

"Broad Weather, for the Stars," Moonsick Magazine

Four poems, NAILED

Three Rah-rah Nostalgia poems, Powder Keg Magazine

Three poems, Sein und Werden

Two poems, Prelude

"Out in the West Texas/Maquiladora," Axolotl [seems to be defunct]