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Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck

Congratulations to Jessica whose poem Repairs was featured on The Writer's Almanac. The poem is from her book Cutting Room. Another poem by Jessica was selected by Garrison Keillor as one of ten finalists in his pandemic poem contest.

Congratulations to Jessica for the feature of her poem, Evolution, at Verse Daily. The poem is from her book, Cutting Room.

Congratulations to Jessica for the feature of her poem, Labor Day, at Verse Daily. 

​Praise for Cutting Room:
The vast and minute details that lodge within the words “my life” come forth resplendently in these poems. Jessica de Koninck is fluent in the impossible Esperanto of God and cinder blocks, Elvis and glue guns but, also, understandably haunted. Life very much includes death in her poems, the way knowledge includes ignorance. A stubborn, jumpy vitality abides, capable of real truth-telling as it examines, discards, clutches, praises and murmurs about the relics of love and grief.
​                                 —Baron Wormser

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Jessica de Koninck is the author of the chapbook, Repairs (Finishing Line Press). Cutting Room is her debut full-length collection. Her work has previously appeared in such journals as The Apple Valley Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Review, US 1 Worksheets, and The Ledge. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including The Doll Collection (Terrapin Books, 2016), The Widow’s Handbook (Kent State University Press), and Regrets Only: Contemporary Poets on the Theme of Regret (Little Pear Press). She has received numerous Pushcart Prize nominations and has been finalist for the Dobler Prize, the Ledge Prize, and the Raynes Prize. She holds an MFA from Stonecoast and is a former attorney who specialized in education law. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, where she has served her community as a councilman and a member of the Board of Education. www.jessicadekoninck.com

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    • Poetry Books >
      • NEW--This Strange Garment, by Nicole Callihan
      • NEW—Paradise Is Jagged, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • NEW--The Mayapple Forest, by Kim Ports Parsons
      • NEW--Leave Me a Little Want, by Beverly Burch
      • NEW--Notes from the Column of Memory, by Wendy Drexler
      • NEW--The Night Divers, by Melanie McCabe
      • NEW--light waves, by Kirsten Shu-ying Chen
      • NEW--Horse Not Zebra, by Eric Nelson
      • NEW--Design, by Theresa Burns
      • NEW--House Bird, by Robb Fillman
      • Years Beyond the River, by David Axelrod
      • The Poet & The Architect, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
      • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
      • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
      • The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
      • A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
      • Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
      • Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
    • Craft Books >
      • NEW--The Strategic Poet
      • The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
      • The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
      • The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
    • Anthologies >
      • A Constellation of Kisses
      • The Book of Donuts, edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham
      • The Doll Collection
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  • Titles for Review
  • Poetry Salon
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