Jessica E. Johnson-poet and October workshop leader-reads Rick Barot’s “The Marrow,” plus her own poem “Rabbits,” first published in Sixth Finch, Winter 2022.
Jessica E. Johnson writes poetry, nonfiction, and between genres. She’s the author of the book-length poem Metabolics, the chapbook In Absolutes We Seek Each Other, and a forthcoming memoir. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, The New Republic, Poetry Northwest, River Teeth, DIAGRAM, Annulet Poetics, The Southeast Review, and Sixth Finch among others. She’s based in Portland, Oregon and co-hosts the Constellation Reading Series at Tin House. Find out more about her here: www.chromeislands.com/