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Jessica Furtado

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Born

September 29, 1990

Website

https://www.jessicafurtado.com/

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Poetry, Fiction

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Jessica Furtado is a multi-passionate artist. Her visual work has been featured in Grub Street, Muzzle Magazine, Waxwing, & elsewhere, and her writing has appeared in Rogue Agent, Stirring, & SWWIM, among others. Jessica’s poetry was a finalist in Best of the Net (2020), and her solo exhibition of mixed media work, FLORAL FIXATION was exhibited at Art Up Front Street in Exeter, NH in February 2023. Her debut poetry chapbook A KISS FOR THE MISBEHAVED (2023) is available from BatCat Press.

Jessica is passionate about public arts and has completed two community portrait projects highlighting human resilience during the pandemic, both of which were exhibited in Haverhill, MA.

To see what she’s up to next, visit Jess at http://www.jessicafurtado. ...more

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A Kiss for the Misbehaved

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Stone Yard Devotional

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Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams

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How to Fall in Love with Humanity: 16 life-changing practices for radical compassion

by James Gill

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“I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“I am so tuned to being alive that if you touch me it makes music.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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