Jane Muschenetz, winner of the 2024 California Press Women Communications Award in Creative Verse and MIT trained mother of two, arrived in the US as a Jewish refugee from Soviet Ukraine. She has appeared on KPBS Midday Edition, Spoken Word Paris, and in numerous publications.

Other poems on the web by Jane Muschenetz:
"For Those of Us Forced to Flee"
"Every poem is political—"
Four poems
"The Moon in Autumn"

Jane Muschenetz's Website.

About Power Point:

"Power Point astonishes me. In this short collection, Jane Muschenetz calls the U.S. to account for injustices against women and girls, quite literally keeping count by transforming graphs with footnotes into poetic forms. Her ability to write about such heavy topics as maternal mortality, racism, rape culture, and gun violence while still offering us humor, beauty, and hope for the future is masterful. If you ever need to prove to someone that poetry is still alive and powerful, you can hand them this chapbook."
—Katie Manning

"It takes a certain kind of passion to write great didactic poetry. Lucretius had it, and so does Jane Muschenetz. She is a knower and her devotion to the precise, the measurable, has made the unmeasurable madness of the world all the more painful. Muschenetz also retains the deep humor and irony of her earlier work. (My favorite line may well be '...Does anyone miss Borscht, really?') In Power Point, there are no distinctions between the scientific, the personal, the political, and the ecstatic. Muschenetz's love for what our world is and can/should become permeates each poem. In 'Pink Noise,' she exclaims, perfectly and triumphantly: 'Oh, Science! / How you pretend to not be poetry, yet / speak in silent prayers.'"
—George Franklin

"We need these poems! In Power Point, Jane Muschenetz presents readers with a brand new poetic form of her own creation—'data poems.' The innovative, business-like style underscores the feminine rage seething just below the surface of these pieces. Muschenetz pulls no punches here and the very first poem is a gut punch, a necessary one. Commingling with righteous anger in this collection is hope. 'Imagine—/ none of us powerless.' Her chosen form has a decided function, a pointed powerful one."
—Elizabeth MacDuffie