About Jenn Givhan and Beloit Poetry Journal

Today's poem is "The Decision"

from Beloit Poetry Journal

Jenn Givhan, a Mexican-American writer and activist from the Southwestern desert, is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently Rosa's Einstein (Camino Del Sol Poetry Series), two chapbooks, and the novels Trinity Sight and Jubilee (Blackstone Publishing). Her work has appeared in The Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, POETRY Magazine, The Rumpus, The New Republic, AGNI, TriQuarterly, The Nation, Crazyhorse, Witness, Southern Humanities Review, and Kenyon Review. She has received, among other honors, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellowship, and New Ohio Review's Poetry Prize, chosen by Tyehimba Jess. Givhan holds a Master's degree in English from California State University Fullerton and an MFA from Warren Wilson College, and she can be found discussing feminist motherhood.
Books by Jenn Givhan:

Other poems on the web by Jenn Givhan:
"Of Color of Landscape of Tenuous Rope"
"Warn the Young Ones"
Three poems
"I Bride, I Mother, I Pierce Through the Casket"
Jenn Givhan's Website.
Jenn Givhan on Twitter.
About Beloit Poetry Journal:

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Editor: John Rosenwald & Lee Sharkey

April 25, 2020: "The wovenness" by Carol Ann Davis
April 24, 2020: "Word Problem" by Adam Tavel
May 25, 2019: "Diorama (woman given all the children)" Catie Rosemurgy
May 24, 2019: "The Lesson" Helena Mesa
March 1, 2019: "The Minnesota State Fair's Miracle of Birth Center, sponsored by Subaru" J. Bailey Hutchinson February 27, 2019: "If I Could, or Poem Against the Crumbling of the Republic" Joe Wilkins
February 1, 2017: "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell
January 31, 2017: "Religious Experience" by Landon Godfrey
January 30, 2017: "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak
March 2, 2016: "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander
March 1, 2016: "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep
February 29, 2016: "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague
December 24, 2015: "Circle" by Bruce Bond
December 23, 2015: "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
December 22, 2015: "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz
December 21, 2015: "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
August 13 2015: "I Went to the Market" by Michael Bazzett
July 29 2015: "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015: "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
July 27 2015: "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell
January 31, 2013: "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013: "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013: "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012: "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012: "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012: "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011: "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011: "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010: "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010: "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010: "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010: "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010: "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
February 16, 2010: "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins
November 11, 2009: "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
November 10, 2009: "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes
November 8, 2009: "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis
November 6, 2009: "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn

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