Jasmine V. Bailey Q&A on Fishouse as a teaching resource
Jasmine V. Bailey talks about why Fishouse is meaningful to her as a teacher.
Jasmine V. Bailey
Jasmine V. Bailey on her poem ‘Gold Dust’
Jasmine V. Bailey talks about the form of her poem “Gold Dust.”
Theory of Relativity
Waking, you discover our life lasted a few minutes; only women in paintings live slower. The truth of backs is the towel will never dry them. The tsunami gathers but does not land. Even destruction is beyond the gods who statue lush Tahiti. Did you once think nights only ended if you […]
Gold Dust
Sometimes in your apartment, underground, underheated, with its view of the green gully, later the shorn, brown gully and houses closer than we’d imagined, where we never cooked and rarely ate, with one table covered in letters, a side table with a coaster and one beautiful magazine, the television on cinderblocks where basketball […]
Love in the Emergency Room
Homeless fall here as often as they are able to sleep in the heart-starting fluorescent light, still as a urine cup. Dan leans against the cot where I scream and grow brave on Percocet. He is normal except for the ways in which he is exceptional; this makes him truly normal. He wears the suit […]
The Lover
Ah, the things you didn’t choose—that tomato, the green dress, some countries, one summer. It’s a tease, the perfect tilt of a hat the wind would never crumble or a careless friend let dissolve in rain while he laughed at a parade. Lady Chatterley is good, but Women in Love would have surely been better—at […]
Archipelago
You have come into and out of my life like a needle knitting me to the earth. Here and not here, rising and diving. Yours is a love that requires talking to sounds that gather in grass, holding a bottle by the neck. Why blame you for the end of summer or its […]
Jasmine V. Bailey
Jasmine V. Bailey is a poet and essayist. Her book-length poetry collections are Alexandria (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014), winner of the Central New York Book Award, and Disappeared (Carnegie Mellon, 2017). Her chapbook, Sleep and What Precedes It (Longleaf Press, 2009), won the Longleaf Press Chapbook Prize. She holds an MFA from the University […]