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Jennifer Givhan, Poeta & Novelista

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Welcome
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Poems + Stories + Critical Work
Buy a Book + What Readers Are Saying
Readings & Lectures
My Writing News
Book Club Jubilee

Reabsorption Elegy

Published poems by

Sculpture by Kenneth Paul Lesko

Daughter, I won’t make milk for you anymore.
The body retreats. It reclaims
miracles.

Published in Glint Literary Journal.

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“Miracle of the River Pig” up at *Goblin Fruit*

Unexpected Visit

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