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Jessica Purdy
Jessica Purdy is the author of six books of poetry including Lung Hours, chosen by Marsha de la O as a winner of Gunpowder Press’ Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize. Her chapbook The Adorable Knife: Poems based on The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (Grey Book Press) received the NH Writers’ Project People’s Choice Award. Her next book Oneironaut is forthcoming in 2027 from White Stag. Her poems have appeared in Thimble, Sixth Finch, Action, Spectacle, About Place, On the Seawall, Radar, Gone Lawn, and elsewhere. She lives in New Hampshire. Insta + FB: jessica.purdy.735
How to Lucid Dream
When I begin dreaming, I will remember that I’m dreaming. I was born with all the eggs I will ever have. I don’t talk much, but when I dream I yell my head off. I remember the details: when I’m flying I’m late for the flight and the airport doesn’t exist. Each of my flight […]
Mother-Me
“Strip yourself of everything you think you are” –Diane Seuss (The Strategic Poet) –after “still in a state of uncreation” by Camille Dungy Only visitor. Only victim. Vicious stone. Only vibration. Tuning fork. Only breastbone […]