I. Digestive Changes: Interview, Small 2-Year College, March 2015 While part of my brain organizes lesson plans and tries to remember the school’s mission statement, another is hearing Dr. G when I complained about painful periods, and acid reflux (carrots and peanuts randomly a problem) telling me it would all go away if I lost […]
Jennifer Schomburg Kanke
Jennifer Schomburg Kanke’s work has recently appeared in New Ohio Review, Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, and Salamander. She is a winner of a Sheila-Na-Gig Fiction Award and her poetry collection about a resistant and resilient housewife in mid-20th century Appalachia, The Swellest Wife Anyone Ever Had, is now available from Kelsay Books. Her poetry collection centered on her experiences with ovarian cancer, Little Stone, Little Stone, is forthcoming in 2026 from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. She can be found hosting the Meter Cute Interview series on the Meter&Mayhem Substack and YouTube channel. She serves as a member of the board of Anhinga Press.
About as Close as My Husband’s Ever Going to Get to a Love Poem
May the sound of my breakfast dishes being placed in the sink be louder than memories of your father telling you he’d love you even when, not if, you fail. May it drown out the sounds of him rewrapping your Christmas presents each year so you can open them again and again, feigning surprise under […]