Before : After

by Jennifer Browne

Poems by Jennifer Browne

Chapbook

Published April 25, 2025

About the author

Jennifer Browne falls in love easily with other people’s dogs. She is the author of American Crow [2024, Beltway Editions] and the poetry chapbooks Before: After [Pure Sleeze Press], In a Period of Absence: a Lake [Origami Poems Project], Whisper Song [tiny wren publishing] and The Salt of the Geologic World [Bottlecap Press]. Her poems have recently appeared in Untelling [Hindman Settlement School], Poem Alone, Steel Jackdaw, and The Nature of Our Times. She lives in Frostburg, Maryland.

Reviews

[Lisa]

Jennifer Browne's poetry takes on some very heavy subjects, and many that would never occur to me to find in poetry.

This small volume very well represents the feelings many of us had before and after 5 NOV 24. For many there was a darkness that descended the next day, and that is captured, especially in After the Election: an Erasure... because so much, so many are in the process of being erased.

[John Burroughs]

Perfection