Jenny George
Jenny George’s poems have recently appeared in Beloit Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, The Collagist, Crab Orchard Review, FIELD, Inch, and Indiana Review. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fund, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo Corporation. Jenny lives in Santa Fe, NM, where she runs a foundation for Buddhist-based social justice. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Reading List
Revelation
When the brain stem of a frog is expertly snipped, the body sac slit, skin pinned back in flaps and then the jellies of the chest arranged to reveal the heart, the heart itself can be unfastened, clipped, lifted …
The Belt
After she heaved all day against the boards of her enclosure, after she panted so long that foam bloomed on her lips, after the sun sharpened like fumes over the field and then shadows began to climb out of …