Vanessa Jimenez Gabb is the author of the chapbooks midnight blue (Porkbelly Press, 2015) and Weekend Poems (dancing girl press, 2014). She received her MFA in Poetry from CUNY Brooklyn College and is from and lives in Brooklyn.

Other poems by Vanessa Jimenez Gabb in Verse Daily:
January 9, 2017:   "Raise" "I need a safe house everywhere I go...."

Books by Vanessa Jimenez Gabb:

Other poems on the web by Vanessa Jimenez Gabb:
"Eggs"
Three poems
"from 'Roses'"
"You & Me, Forever [Excerpt]"
"Capitalist Love Note"
from Basic Needs

Vanessa Jimenez Gabb's Website.

Vanessa Jimenez Gabb on Twitter.

About Basic Needs:

"Anyone who has ever wondered what a Marxist love poem might look like need look no further than Vanessa Jimenez Gabb's BASIC NEEDS. With its focus on living--how it is done, in a country where workers have had to die for an eight-hour work day & in a world where 'love is indeed a stranger to most people,' this stunning collection of poems manages to get at what is most necessary when trying, not just to survive, but find love that might one day lead to life outside of 'this system.' & that love is unabashedly anti-capitalist, which makes me especially thankful for the ì"wayward light / in the poems' here."
—Wendy Trevino

"Powerful, elegant, lush, disorienting, philosophical, honest and cutting, full of life, clarity, energy, vulnerability and beauty. These are some of the terms that come to mind when I think of Vanessa Jimenez Gabb's vibrant new book. Here is a poetics of labor, history, brokenness, money, solidarity, ecology. Here is a book that thinks and loves deeply in order to survive the infinite collapse of the system."
—Daniel Borzutzky