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Posts by: Jennifer Givhan

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jennifer Givhan

By Jennifer Givhan

May 21st, 2020

They are headless. As I am too often / headless. As women are wont to be.

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Tags: Jenn Givhan, Jennifer Givhan, poems, poetry, Rumpus Original Poems, Rumpus Original Poetry

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jennifer Givhan

By Jennifer Givhan

May 17th, 2018

Good thing we hadn’t held the chrysalid funeral yet. The two butterflies emerged. Damaged wings but reborn.

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Tags: Jennifer Givhan, motherhood, mothering 2018, Mothering Outside the Margins, mothers, poems, poetry, Rumpus Original Poetry

The Miracle Bowl

By Jennifer Givhan

December 4th, 2017

Praise the family that tethers me. Praise the well-used kitchen utensils and scoured mixing bowls and butter knives, thick slabs of jelly on the bread.

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Tags: alcohol, alcohol poisoning, Breastfeeding, California, child molestation, children, depression, earthquakes, Ernest Hemingway, failure, family, intergenerational trauma, Jennifer Givhan, Latin American literature, Latina, Latinx, los angeles, memoir, Mental Health, mental illness, miracle, miracles, miscarriages, motherhood, New Mexico, North Carolina, parenting, poetry, postpartum depression, ppd, pregnancy, Prozac, suicide, suicide attempt, teaching writing, trauma

Jennifer Givhan, a Mexican-American writer and activist from the Southwestern desert, is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently Rosa’s Einstein (Camino Del Sol Poetry Series), two chapbooks, and the novels Trinity Sight and Jubilee (Blackstone Publishing). Her work has appeared in The Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, POETRY Magazine, The Rumpus, The New Republic, AGNI, TriQuarterly, The Nation, Crazyhorse, Witness, Southern Humanities Review, and Kenyon Review. She has received, among other honors, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellowship, and New Ohio Review’s Poetry Prize, chosen by Tyehimba Jess. Givhan holds a Master’s degree in English from California State University Fullerton and an MFA from Warren Wilson College, and she can be found discussing feminist motherhood at jennifergivhan.com as well as Facebook & Twitter @JennGivhan.

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