Walsh, Jessica 2023
Blue Hour Reading Series with Kemi Alabi and Jessica Walsh
Haymarket House
I review email from a tailor who calls me Madame
tells me how to measure myself, since I must,
what a shame how we are reduced, isn’t it,
but surely his corset dress will bring me love
and comfort me through these terrible times.
– Jessica Walsh, “When All This Is Done”
Watch Jessica Walsh’s 2023 reading with Kemi Alabi at the Chicago Poetry Center:
Jessica Walsh begins at 25:42 minutes.
Read Jessica Walsh’s prose piece “I Am Here to Give You Bad Advice”:
I am Here to Give You Bad Advice – Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets
When I was a junior at a small liberal arts college, I began applying for English Ph.D. programs. (The entire story of why I chose this path was my professor’s statement that “If you get a Ph.D. in English, you’ll probably never get a tenure-track job.
As a child I played near the mill
and breathed deep the pines
loving trees and death of trees,
roots and needles, sawdust, sap.
I saw no border between wild and blade—
holy both.
– Jessica Walsh, “Reliquary”
