Jill McCabe Johnson is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently, Tangled in Vow & Beseech (MoonPath, 2024), finalist for the Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize and Sally Albiso Poetry Award, and nominated for the National Book Award. Honors include Nautilus Awards in Poetry and Nature Writing, Longreads' Best of 2021 Stories, six Pushcart nominations, and support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Artist Trust, and Hedgebrook. Jill is editor-in-chief of Wandering Aengus Press and its imprint, Trail to Table Press. She spends her free time writing, hiking, and in close observation of the natural world.

Other poems on the web by Jill McCabe Johnson:
Two poems
Three poems
"Letter to America"
Three poems
"When You First Came Home"
"Borderlines"
"Slipsilver"
"Gymnosperm"

Jill McCabe Johnson's Website.

About Tangled in Vow & Beseech:

"Tangled in Vow & Beseech vows to remember what we lose and beseeches us to embrace every moment. Throughout, McCabe Johnson writes intimately about family, nature, and animals, while also protesting the violences of religion, patriarchy, and racism. The lyricism of these poems carries the speaker into the 'clear slipstream of memory' to 'river me home. River me home.'"
—Craig Santos Perez

"Through an array of poetic forms, Jill McCabe Johnson explores a deep sense of interconnectedness. These lyric tangles help us grapple with a life where the ugliest abuses of person and planet occur alongside a mother's love for her son, the grace of childhood innocence, the anniversary of a first kiss, and the understanding that 'in this land' of 'dogwood blossom, swordfern and fen' is 'everything' we need to 'believe.'"
—Derek Sheffield