Jenn Givhan
Jenn Givhan, a Mexican American writer and activist from the Southwestern desert, is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Rosa’s Einstein (Camino del Sol, 2019), two chapbooks, and two novels, Trinity Sight and Jubilee, both forthcoming from Blackstone Press. Her poems appear in Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Poetry, the New Republic, Crazyhorse, and the Kenyon Review. She has received, among other honors, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an Emerging Voices Fellowship, and New Ohio Review’s NORward Prize for Poetry, chosen by Tyehimba Jess.
Reading List
Fool’s Holy Day [Has Ended]
remember the summer of pink eye the summer of fried eggs & the crackling blacktop I sucked till my mouth unglued drunk on nothing drunk on the wedding cake I froze & thirteen years later every jeweled egg I’ve carried has popped like fancy caviar never tasted such pinkening that bubbles as champagne & cheers […]
Even the Trees
Even the trees without buds this April even those without green without bright whose arms stay bare even my belly stayed bare when the boy I loved that winter got another girl pregnant even the belly I scraped for him bittered as the cactus rinds in my yard even the porch where ornaments crackled the […]