Jehanne Dubrow
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of nine poetry collections and three books of nonfiction, including most recently Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity (University of New Mexico Press, 2023). Her next book of poems, Civilians, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 2025. Her writing appears in Poetry, New England Review, the Southern Review, and Ploughshares. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas.
Reading List
Tubal Ligation
I think about the sages who forbid such incisions, each slice small as a pomegranate seed buried in the skin. I can’t decide what scares me more. The chance that I might sleep forever, sedated, in a landscape poked with stars. Or that I wake in a country where a body does not belong to […]
Anguish
Perhaps we professors turn to satire because academic life has so much pain, so many lives wasted or destroyed. On the spelling corrector on my computer, when I click on English, the alternative that comes up is Anguish. Like the suburbs, the campus can be the site of pastoral, or the fantasy of pastoral—the refuge, […]
Ira Furor Brevis Est
—Horace, Epistles When the anger isn’t madness anymore, you find it by dredging the mud at the bottom of yourself, clear cove gone cloudy. And soon you are driving that town again, those streets called Cannon and College, the mire of waterfront swirling in your view, those buildings where rage circled like badly vented air. […]