Jenny Benjamin
Poet / WriterJenny Benjamin is an award-winning poet and novelist. Over 30 of her poems have appeared in journals, including DIAGRAM, South Carolina Review, Fulcrum, Baltimore Review, Chelsea, and the Crab Orchard Review. Her first novel, This Most Amazing, was published in 2013 by Armida Books in Nicosia, Cyprus. Her poetry chapbook, More Than a Box of Crayons, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
She’s a freelance writer with her own small business, JB Communications, LLC. Jenny lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her three daughters and dog.
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My students that one April were sudden, quixotic, real.Teaching Oedipus the King came easy,All the late arrivals started coming on time,And I felt like a…
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The husband is a frozen wing of a bird,flesh and feather yarned to bone.They are bones, painted rooms, and shallowpools bodies make when they exhaust…
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I can divine these brambles.Or these gnarled flowers at my feet.They obscure my heels as Ifloat on yellow horizons.Tip the diagonal of my arms intothe…
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Milwaukee writer Jenny Benjamin’s new novel spans hundreds of years and thousands of miles. This Most Amazing is set in modern-day Milwaukee, but also in…