Jan Beatty seventh book, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award, 2021. Of her last book, The Body Wars (U. of Pgh. Press), Naomi Shihab Nye said in the New York Times: Jan Beatty's new poems in "The Body Wars" shimmer with luminous connection, travel a big life and grand map of encounters. Beatty worked as a waitress, abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons.

Books by Jan Beatty:

Other poems on the web by Jan Beatty:
Four poems
Six poems
Three poems
"On the 101"
"I Knew I Wasn't Poor"
"Company Car"
"Hot in the Striped Boy's Heart"

Jan Beatty's Website.

Jan Beatty on Twitter.

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Kestrel * Department of Humanities * Fairmont State University * 1201 Locust Avenue * Fairmont, West Virginia, 26554
Poetry Editor: Elizabeth Savage
Other poems by Kestrel in Verse Daily:
May 20, 2022:   "Resentment" by Ace Boggess
May 14, 2022:   "Resentment" by Al Maginnes
May 13, 2022:   "Cultivar from the West" by Angie Macri
November 28, 2021:   "Another Story of Ash" by Rick Campbell
November 27, 2021:   "Ars Poetica II" by Dean Rader
November 26, 2021:   "Wine with Everything Was What I Said" by Laura Sobbott Ross

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