Select (Online) Journals:
POETRY Magazine: “Sin Vergüenza (Como los Pájaros),” “I am dark / I am forest” (nominated for a Pushcart, and you can hear Jenn read this poem here & discuss it in depth here), “Headless Mama Returns,” “The Bruise,” and “Endtimes Meditation on Mothering Self-Care”
Poets.org & Poem-a-day: “My Mom’s Been Asking for a Happy Poem All My Life,” “Of Color of Landscape of Tenuous Rope,” “Chicken-Hearted” (sestina), “The Rhinoceros Calf,” “Warn the Young Ones,” “The Dying Girl & The Date Palm,” “Tingo (For Divorce),” “Karaoke Night at the Asylum,” & “Self-Defense or What I Wish Mama Had Taught Me”
The Nation: “The Excavation”
The New Republic: “I Bride, I Mother, I Pierce Through the Casket”
Salon: “Quinceañera with Baby Fever” and “On cultural appropriation: A Latina novelist calls herself out amid the ‘American Dirt’ controversy”
Writer’s Digest: “Writing Our Way Into (And Out Of) Dark Forests” & “A MotherDaughter Lost and Found in Hell: Writing My Novel From the Mother’s Journey”
CrimeReads: “Becoming the Bruja My Ancestors Needed” & “In Borderlands of Truth and Silence: Jennifer Givhan on Writing Mexicali Magical Realism”
New England Review: “Lila”
The Account: “The Monster” and “we feel good when we do what we’ve evolved to do”
Adroit Journal: “Domestic,” “Creation of the Birds,” “In the Emergency Room,” “Diabetic Jeffrey”
Missouri Review: “Housing Works”
The Queen’s Review: “Slipstitch” & “Monstrous Cake”
Shenandoah: “Fool’s Holy Day [Has Ended]” & “Even the Trees”
Kenyon Review Online: “Race in America” and “Lieserl Contemplates Resurrection”
Blackbird: “Warn the Young Ones”
Pleiades: “The Back Roads,” “Tingo* (For Divorce)” (republished in Verse Daily)
PANK: “Billiards” and “Abiyoyo”
Vinyl: “The Problem with My Eyes”
Cultural Weekly: “In the Shower With Sunday After Watching Lost,” “Machine for Second Chances” and “Rosa Travels Back to the River, Becomes Her Mama”
Diode: “Our Recent Particles,” “Brother I Could Pretend You Were Wolverine”
Baltimore Review: “Ritual With Fish Water”
Tinderbox Poetry: “River Pitch,” “Searching the Skyline”
Connotation Press: “First Light in Tahoe City,” “Reverse: Ten Years of Marriage,” “Mama Teaches Metamorphosis,” “I’ve Carried an Elephant” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
The Boiler Journal: “Bloom,” “Bird Woman”
Four Way Review: “Nocturne,” “Scientific Balloon”
Cider Press Review: “Self-Portrait As The Years Between Conquest, Or The Desert Must Sustain Herself”
Tupelo Quarterly: “Mama Hulas with the Eggslice Player One Last Time”
As/Us: “A Daughter’s Maternal Instinct, or The Egg-Thief, Great Grandma, & the Woozy Place”
Arsenic Lobster: “In Situ,” “Clean Kitchen,” “After the Miscarriage” (nominated for Best New Poets)
Stirring: “Bakku-shan* (For Aging)”
Menacing Hedge: “Blood is blood is” (nominated for Pushcart Prize 2014, nominated for Best of the Net 2015), “Mother Judas,” “Case History,” “Easter Sunday,” “Mrs. Bitterstout,” “The Daughter’s Curse,” “Birthright Disguise,” “Traveling With Leonora Carrington,” “The Demon,” “Night Cropping,” “Resfeber: Re-Membering Trauma”
Life and Legends: “Prayer,” “Sighting,” “I’m Tempted to Tell You I Love the Coyote”
Contrary: “Cattle Call Leaves, A Ghost Story” (short story, Editor’s Choice Prize 2013 – excerpt from an early draft of Jubilee), “Cleaving,” “What the Water Did”
The Acentos Review: “Out,” “Palabras: Mama e hija-mujer,” “Mirrors, Wives, & Infants,” “Mary’s Prayer,” “Upon Seeing Another Cross On The Highway’s Edge,” “Pyre for Waiting: She May Have Been A Witch”
Mom Egg Review: “Apples Fall”
Collaborative Poems with alicia elkort
We didn’t want to be queens.
We wanted not to be hollowed, not to be buried alive. & when they wrapped us in tarp & threw us to the ocean, those boys/men who’d shamed us deep [water silence] into brittle bones where we’d hidden our wounds we wanted our mothers.
~ from “Prom Queen[s]”
Prom Queen(s) – Missouri Review
Two Poets Email on a Sunday Afternoon, We Did Not Go To Prom – The Southeast Review
We Return to the Beginning [Teach Ourselves Consent] – underbelly (scroll to middle of archive page)
I found a bottle at the bottom of the ocean – The Georgia Review
Cornflower Paloma – The Georgia Review
Aunt Lucy Packs a Suitcase, One by One, A Small Metamorphosis or the Power of Seeing, invention of the [shrinking /growing/ myth or how I learned to shift & shift again, Why Death? Why Mud – They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, Black Lawrence Press
A Small Metamorphosis or The Power of Seeing – AGNI
One By One – AGNI
In Conversation
Call and Response: Two Questions – AGNI Online
her breath became my breath — in conversation – The Georgia Review