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Jayne Marek

Jayne Marek

Jayne Marek

Jayne Marek’s seventh poetry collection will be Dusk-Voiced (2024), with an eighth poetry book (Torrential) due in 2025 from Cornerstone Press. Her writings and photos appear in Rattle Poets Respond, Terrain, Catamaran, The New York Times, Spillway, Bloodroot, Calyx, Salamander, Gulf Stream, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Northwest Review, and elsewhere. Her photos have been used as cover art for Typehouse, Chestnut Review, Silk Road, Bombay Gin, Amsterdam Quarterly’s 2018 Yearbook, and The Bend, as well as for four full-length poetry books. Winner of the Bill Holm Witness poetry award (twice) and the Last Stanza Poetry Journal Editor’s Choice Award, she has also been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes, received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities for literary scholarship, and held creative residencies at Playa, Hypatia-in-the-Woods, and the Whiteley Center. She lives in the Pacific Northwest. (Source)

Poems by Jayne Marek

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Animals Decide When to Die by Jayne Marek

“Language fails as it always has—yours to me, / mine to you. ” — Jayne Marek