Jenniey Tallman

Originally from Virginia, Jenniey Tallman lives in Iowa City where she teaches, edits, and works for the hospital. Supported and/or recognized by The Pushcart Prize, Pen America, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, recent work is in Mid-American Review, Waxwing, DIAGRAM, and Electric Lit. She keeps an experimental poetry blog and is currently at work on a novel, a hybrid manuscript, and—with her husband and their three sons—a school bus conversion.

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Insomnia and Sleep Notes

Jenniey Tallman  | 
Issue 70.2 Spring 2021

i. Tonight, you will rise at the sound of the cat howling in the kitchen. Tonight, you will rise and go where you are beckoned, down the stairs to feed the insulted one—whose dinner has been forgotten, whose neck craves your fingernails. Tonight, you will rise to check windows and doors, to find lights […]