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Lesley Jenike

Lesley Jenike’s work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Bennington Review, The Iowa Review, Image, West Branch, and listed as “notable” in 2003’s Best American Essays. Her first collection of essays, City of Toys, will be published in the 21st Century Essays Series from The Ohio State Press in 2025. She teaches writing and literature at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio where she lives with her husband and two children.
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    Terrence Loves You

    “What a Wonderful World” was something of a protest from the very start.

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    Calliope

    There are, as my niece says, so many ghosts in Cincinnati; they initiate the weather, evaporating only to rain down again…

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    Sweet Bird

    Every story needs to begin in a place of stasis, a comfortable zero.