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About Jen Fitzgerald
NBN Episodes hosted by Jen:
December 23, 2016
Still Something Rattles
I had the pleasure of interviewing poet, Terence Degnan while he sat on a bench in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. For those unfamiliar, we refer to Sunset not…
November 30, 2016
Some Other Stupid Fruit
What is the best way to be a feminist? What is the best way to be a poet, a musician, or a painter? As a woman, what is the best way to be a friend to…
November 26, 2016
My Bedside Radio
The "coming of age narrative" will never lose its allure because we are constantly drawn back to the moments that shaped us into the adults we are tod…
November 23, 2016
Pull Yourself Together
In Pull Yourself Together: The Gena Rowlands Poems (Dancing Girl Press, 2106), Amanda Deutch reminds us of the current and historic importance of the …
November 15, 2016
The Cavalcade
Where personal history and shared history intersect, we are left with the figures of memory and myth. These poems seek to reclaim the portions of pers…
November 12, 2016
I Could See Needing a Knife
I am not going to lie to you, dear reader, this collection will require you to be fully present. With each layer of the speaker that is revealed, you …
November 9, 2016
Surveillance
Now in its fifth printing of a very short life, Ashaki Jackson's Surveillance examines the relationship between acts of violence, the witnessing of vi…
November 6, 2016
Sweet/Crude
With a genre-bending hybridity that Czerwiec is well-known for, Sweet/Crude: A Bakken Boom Cycle (Gazing Grain Press, 2016) takes the structure of a h…
November 3, 2016
Restored Mural for Orlando
After the enormity of our loss had been calculated, Guzman started writing. Drawn to the page to process his grief and to understand in the best way p…
June 20, 2016
Political Punch
Readers gather around: Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity (Sundress Publications, 2016) is an anthology for a new era. …
May 16, 2016
LEAVING CLE
"Poems of Nomadic Dispersal" This latter phrase in the title of Janice A. Lowe's new book--LEAVING CLE: Poems of Nomadic Dispersal (Miami Universit…
May 10, 2016
Explosion Rocks Springfield
What is explosion? What does language look like when it mimics a gas leak, a bang, or rubble? What does language look like when it orbits other sounds…
February 16, 2016
Free Fall/Caida libre
Tina Escaja's, Free Fall/Caida libre, translated by Mark Eisner (Fomite Press, 2015), is an exceptional example of poetry in translation as artistic c…
December 17, 2015
Lady of the Moon
In Lady of the Moon (Headmistress Press, 2015), the reader is graced not only with the poetry of Amy Lowell, but with sonnets in response and a schola…
November 3, 2015
BIG BROWN BAG
Winner of the Gazing Grain 2015 Chapbook contest, BIG BROWN BAGby Marisa Crawford is our final Chapbookapalooza installment. And what a way to end a g…
October 31, 2015
Dynamite
Dynamite (Bull City Press, 2015) is transit distilled. Anders Carlson-Wee's poems employ movement as mechanism and movement as reverence in a journ…
October 27, 2015
The Burn Poems
When Denise Levertov called Lynn Strongin a "true poet," she recognized an awareness that transcended the young poet's age. This very human awareness …
October 25, 2015
State of Grace
Alexis Rhone Fancher's State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies (KYSO Flash Press, 2015) is not an "easy" collection. This is not a group of poems that you …
October 21, 2015
Trains
The poem fragments in Hope Wabuke's Movement No. 1: Trains (Dancing Girl Press, 2015) function more as meditations than portions of a whole. They medi…
October 13, 2015
Fiddle is Flood
In her macabre pastoral landscape Fiddle is Flood (Blood Pudding Press, 2015), Lauren Gordon conjures up a persona far-reaching enough to grapple with…
October 10, 2015
Yolanda
Think of a place you have visited and to which you feel a connection. Now think of that place in utter ruin and devastation mere months later. You fee…
October 7, 2015
le animal and other creatures
As pleasing to the eye as it is to the ear the contents of Meta Sama's le animal and other creatures (Miel Press, 2015) remind us that creativity take…
October 5, 2015
The Feltville Formation
When I first read Suzanne Bottelli's The Feltville Formation (Finishing Line Press, 2015), I was struck by the quietude and steadiness of the poems. O…
October 2, 2015
How We Came Upon the Colony
With air-tight verse and talent for the surreal, Ross White invokes a sibling version of our world in his new collection How We Came Upon the Colony (…