Lesley Jenike
Lesley Jenike’s poems and essays appear in Poetry, the Kenyon Review, the Southern Review, the Bennington Review, the Rumpus, Rattle, Verse, and many other journals. Her most recent books are poetry collections Holy Island (Gold Wake, 2014), and Punctum (Kent State University Press, 2017). She teaches creative writing and literature at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio where she lives with her husband and children.
Reading List
I Have Drunk and Seen the Spider
“We both cry all the time, and then what we do, we cry, and we take our tears, and we put ’em in the ice box, in the goddamn ice trays until they’re all frozen and then… we put them…in our…drinks.” —Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf I’m in love with the spider outside […]
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Ax Handle
Lesley Jenike’s video essay encourages us to self-reflect and make space for non sequiturs in our lives