Jessica S. Smith's Blog

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How to Know the Flowers is now available at Small Press Distribution! Advertisements

How to Know the Flowers, my third book, is forthcoming from Veliz Books and now listed on its website, along with the cover and blurbs! Advertisements

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I’m thrilled to announce that my recent manuscript, How to Know the Flowers, was accepted for publication by Veliz Books. I wrote How to Know the Flowers in the spring of 2017. It’s about sexual harassment, grief, and repairing oneself … Continue reading →

I will be at the New Orleans Poetry Festival next week, where I will be hosting the Coven/Bloof Reading, celebrating the release of Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing in the Anthropocene and the life of Black Radish Books editor Marthe Reed, … Continue reading →

I have a short essay on zines and teen librarianship in Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel (eds. Sommer Browning and Shannon Tharpe) and an entry on teeth in Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing within the Anthropocene (eds. Linda Russo … Continue reading →

I made a portfolio website using Adobe’s MyPortfolio to show my print design work and some of the book arts education I’ve done, mostly at Indian Springs School, but now also at the Vestavia Hills Library in the Forest. From … Continue reading →

My manuscript, How to Know the Flowers, was a finalist through the 2017 Sundress Publications Open Reading Period.  Advertisements Filed under: personal

I have joined the low-residency MFA program at Miami University, where Hoa Nguyen and Laura Van Prooyen are the poetry mentors.  These poets join the experimental-minded poetry faculty in Miami’s residential MFA program, Keith Tuma, Cathy Wagner, and cris cheek … Continue reading →