Jennifer Loyd
Jennifer Loyd is a poet and PhD student in West Texas. A former Stadler Fellow and editor for Copper Nickel, West Branch, and Sycamore Review, she also holds an MFA from Purdue University. Her poems and prose, which explore the intersection between private voice and public narratives, appear in the Southern Review, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.
Reading List
Epistles in Which Rachel Carson Uses Romantic Language That Will Worry Biographers Claiming Her Relationship with Dorothy Freeman Was Strictly Platonic: A Cento
My Darling, to step off the train into your arms “ifs” “whys” “love”1 If we could have even a little time Christmas2 linger3 No more till when?4 Awful if it was only one you say not to I imagine5 Leaping the mail truck breath […]
Remember, Body
The warmest night of nineteen— two women in the phosphorescent water, writing on each other with the plankton’s glow. First—single syllables: once, you, breath, then one of them tries lavender and runs out of collarbone. That time of year, dawn arrives earlier every day. It arrives and arrives and arrives. One of those women shivers […]