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A series of drawings about motherhood, femininity, caregiving and domestic-turned-creative spaces is forthcoming in Geist, an amazing Canadian magazine about arts and culture that includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, photography, art, comix, and more. 

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Old and new image-poem drawings are currently out in Issue 7 of The Lincoln Review. See them here.

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Thank you to the Access Copyright Foundation's Marian Hebb Research Grant in support of a new series of writing-drawing projects. 

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"Turning Back," my essay on the poetry of French writer Claire Malroux, was published in the July - August 2025 issue of PN Review: "Reading her poems, one could imagine walking around these rooms – here is a table with clawed feet, there, a cloisonné bowl, seeing everything she sees." Click here to see more.

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My tribute to the wonderful French writer Claire Malroux (1925 - 2025) can be found in the News & Notes section of PNR 283, May - June 2025. You can read it here. 

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My essay on Meret Oppenheim's The Loveliest Vowel Empties, translated by Kathleen Heil (World Poetry), and Mein Album/My Album (Scheidegger & Spiess), can be read in Issue 281 of PN Review. 

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"Resting Places," my essay on the Austrian writer Friederike Mayröcker, appears in Issue 276 of PN Review.

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I wrote an article on artist Curtis Talwst Santiago, "Embracing Art's Intimacy," which you can see in Edition 10 of The OG.

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Two poems, "Abattoir" and "Epigone," can be found in the Winter 2022 issue of The Antigonish Review.

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In Ruins was included in the AGO's online gallery, The Art of Resilience (2021), and in the exhibition, I Am Here: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces.

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In "The Fate of Wandering" I wonder-wander around Hope Mirrlees's Paris: A Poem. Read it in the Sept. - Oct. 2021 issue of PN Review.

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A series of drawings/image-poems, including "Self-Portrait with Broken Screen," were published in VAINE Magazine's Digital Life issue. Find a copy here.

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My brief tribute to Friederike Mayröcker (1924 - 2021) has been published in PN Review, Issue 260. Read it here.

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"Sides Unseen: The David Zwirner Books ekphrasis series" can be found in the

Sept. - Oct. 2020 issue of PN Review.

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My essay, "A Moment's Life," about Joan Murray's Drafts, Fragments, and Poems: The Complete Poetry (NYRB Poets, 2018) was published in PN Review, Issue 246.

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Read "The Many-Sided Ridge," about To the Many: Collected Early Works by Lola Ridge (Little Island Press) in Issue 248 of PN 

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© Jena Schmitt 2026

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