Currently at work on an essay, "Always to Live Among Words," by one of my most favourite writers, Ingeborg Bachmann.
"Turning Back," my essay on the poetry of French writer Claire Malroux, is out in the July - August 2025 issue of PN Review: "Her poetry holds on to the need to delay time 'with a look, a word', where art leads the way towards timelessness...". Click here to read more.
A 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.
My essay on Meret Oppenheim's The Loveliest Vowel Empties, translated by Kathleen Heil (World Poetry), and Mein Album/My Album (Scheidegger & Spiess), is out in Issue 281 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.
Two poems, "Abattoir" and "Epigone," can be found in the Winter 2022 issue of The Antigonish Review.
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.
A brief tribute to Friederike Mayröcker (1924 - 2021) has been published in PN Review 260.
I write about Vernon Lee, Rilke, H.D. and Proust, published by David Zwirner Books' ekphrasis series, in my essay about the importance of art during uncertain times. Find it in the Sept. - Oct. 2020 issue of PN Review.
Read "The Many-Sided Ridge," about To the Many: Collected Early Works by Lola Ridge (Little Island Press), in Issue 248 of PN Review and reposted at Poetry Foundation.
My essay, "A Moment's Life," about Joan Murray's Drafts, Fragments, and Poems: The Complete Poetry (NYRB Poets, 2018) was published in Issue 246 of PN Review and reposted at Poetry Foundation.
I review Marianne Moore: New Collected Poems, edited by Heather Cass White and published by Faber & Faber, in PN Review 243.
"This Is VE4OH", a short story, in The New Quarterly (Winter 2018).
Four poems in The Antigonish Review, (Vol. 48, No. 189, Spring 2017):
Begotten
Roadwork
Cuckoldry and the Cowbird
A poem in The New Quarterly (Issue 120, Fall 2011):
First I Heard Your Galloping
Catchment Area, my first collection of poetry, was published by Signature Editions in 2010. For more information, click here.
Two poems in The Malahat Review (Issue 162, Spring 2008):
After an Unfinished Poem by Anna Akhmatova
After "Another Place" by Antony Gormley
The poem "Point of View" in Grain (Issue 162, Vol. 35, No. 3, Winter 2008).
Five poems in The Antigonish Review (No. 150):
Today I Saw Samuel Beckett
The Brontë Sisters at the National Portrait Gallery, London
After "The Couriers" by Sylvia Plath
Body of Presumptions
Three poems in The Fiddlehead (No. 227, Spring 2006):
For Once
The Loss of Loss
In the Attic
The poem "Astrolabe" in Pottersfield Portfolio (Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer/Autumn 2002).
© Jena Schmitt 2025