Jan Beatty
Jan Beatty’s sixth book is The Body Wars (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). In the New York Times, Naomi Shihab Nye said, “Jan Beatty’s new poems in The Body Wars shimmer with luminous connection, travel a big life and grand map of encounters.” Beatty won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award for her memoir, American Bastard, published in 2021. A new chapbook, Skydog, will be published by Lefty Blondie Press in March 2022.
Reading List
The Drawbridge
Spelling & grammar want me to use bulkheads instead of fuckheads & although I like bulk, there’s nothing like the smack of a fuckhead. Like Jack White, who says technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth, […]
Skydog
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection. — Jim Morrison Doug sent me a golden gingko leaf in the mail— in a dancing ninjas envelope & a LUCKY IN LIFE, RECKLESS IN LOVE card—a large woman in a straw hat & blue rhinestone cat glasses in an old-school bathing suit. Sealed with a stamp of […]