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  • Issue 003, Fall 2011
    • A Moment with James Rhodes
    • Altitude
    • Birds
    • Brandy Has My Eyes
    • Calabi-Yau Manifolds
    • Featured Artist: Tony Nicholas
    • Forewords: Issue #003
    • Fury
    • He Never Loved You
    • Heathens
    • His Only Nose
    • Hydrant
    • I Suspect You Can Feel It
    • I’m the Best Hollow Core Door Installer in England, and I’ll Bloody Fight Anyone Who Says I Ain’t
    • Kitchen Chairs
    • Meet Me at the Trio in C-Minor (Opus posthumous)
    • My Brother Describes His Death
    • Open Mic
    • Pack It
    • Pleasant View Cemetery
    • Role Model
    • Schooners on the Golden Dawn
    • The Day Igor Stravinsky Got Busted
    • This Faint Impression
    • Two Ways to Judge Fiction
    • When We Visit Your Parents
    • Yellow Star Child
  • Issue 004, Spring 2012
    • A Question of American Canon
    • As Steam
    • Birdsong
    • Blueberry Pie with Jet-Puffed Cream
    • Cliche
    • Don’t Pretend I Own a Llama
    • Drive-By Shooting
    • Featured Authors: “Fallen City Writers”
    • Featured Photographer: Donald Attenberger
    • Forewords: Issue 004
    • Frippery and Demise
    • Heroica
    • Hollow Shadows
    • How Did Dinosaurs Have Sex?
    • Identifying with Licking County
    • Issue 004 Sponsors
    • Love at the End of the World
    • Of a June Evening
    • Only You Know I Could Never Be a Deerheart Slayer
    • Playing Fingerbones with Coyote
    • Rattle Snakes
    • Re-Entry
    • Requiem for a Pool Table
    • Running at Mill Creek
    • Shelter for the Survivors Of
    • Skyline
    • Starved
    • Tell Them
    • Tell Them
    • Temps
    • The Egyptian Revolution
    • The Girl at Table 5
    • The Other Side
    • When I Sing Whitman
    • Wincing at the Beautiful
    • Wincing at the Beautiful
  • Issue 005, Fall 2012
    • Aubade for Marie Laveau
    • Brad Wright is Dirt
    • Catastrophe
    • Confluence of Currents
    • Everyone Older than Us is Dead
    • Featured Photographer: Leslie Cusano
    • Feaured Author: Colleen Clayton
    • Forewords: Issue #005
    • In Completing the Wooden Box, Dad Asked Me
    • Issue 005 Sponsors
    • Jalapeños
    • Learning Asanas
    • Night Patrol
    • Or Current Occupant
    • Panache
    • Parting Gift
    • Reawakening
    • Rolls
    • Saturday Nights
    • Stuck
    • The Blueberry Bush
    • The Guava Tree
    • The Mother Thief
    • The Opposite of Violet
    • There Should be Fire
    • TMI
    • Towels Without Wasps
    • Vermillion
    • We’ve Come a Long Way from Stupid and Ugly
    • Weiler
  • Issue 006 Staff
  • Issue 006, Fall 2013
    • Between Pittsburgh and Cleveland
    • Books of Sand
    • Center Street Bridge
    • Forewords: Issue 006
    • Frank A. Romandetti
    • Kelsey Anne Anderson
    • Pubs of Youngstown
    • Sad Beauty
    • The Pro-Bono Ghost Wrangler
    • Veins in Metal Frames
    • Western Reserve
    • Youngstown
    • Youngstown
  • Issue 006, Fall 2013
  • Issue 007 Staff
  • Issue 007, Spring 2014
    • A Life Continued in Dreams
    • Battery Days
    • Darwin’s Impression of Freud Being Detained in Customs
    • Dead Notes
    • Death Gets Closer than Any Lover Has
    • Embolisms
    • Falling Woman
    • Featured Artist: Raquel DiNunzio
    • Foreword: Issue 007
    • Growth; OR Meat Finger Beginnings; OR Nancy’s Lament
    • Helen
    • His Scent Lingers on my Skin
    • I Want a Summer Thunderstorm
    • Just Like Debbie Reynolds
    • Love Sonnet for a Perfectionist
    • Ode to Apathy
    • Prophetess
    • Standing
    • The Earth and I
    • The Invention of Television
    • The Memorial Chain
    • To My Soul-mate Who Doesn’t Believe in Souls
    • Two Old Boys
    • Velorio
    • When You Get Old
    • Whitman’s Words
    • Who’s Gary Cooper?
    • Words’ Worth
    • YSU Unity Poem
  • Issue 008, Spring 2015
    • #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS
    • Alone With a View
    • Anila, the Wind, and the Sea
    • Beauty Tips
    • Cat Festival
    • City Year
    • Fake Orchids
    • Featured Artist: Claudia Gage
    • Foreword: Issue 008
    • From Gaza
    • Here Among the Dead
    • In the Cage
    • Issue 008 Staff
    • Mariam and the Isle
    • Mourning at the Lake of Impossible Trespass
    • My Closure
    • Porch Cat
    • Protein Dreams of a New Flesh
    • Ritual
    • Ritual
    • Robbed of Misapprehension
    • She Smokes
    • Space
    • Spill-O’s Date with the Ghosts
    • Spill-O’s Small Night Out
    • The Country Estate
    • The Geese Chamber
    • The Last Goodbye
  • Issue 009, Fall 2015
    • A Moment with M.B. Earnhardt
    • An Ode to the Pacific
    • Callie’s Pie
    • Cinder Blocks
    • Conches, Comets: A Love Memory
    • Conches, Comets: A Love Memory
    • Cuba in Framents: 2001
    • Dark Matter
    • Featured Artist: Fabio Sassi
    • Flying Near Dawn
    • Flyover State
    • Foreword: Issue 009
    • Harry
    • I Kill Myself Days at a Time, Now You Can Too
    • Issue 009 Staff
    • Marlene
    • Mother’s Day
    • Nine Times Out of Ten
    • Quiet Waters
    • Rapunzel
    • Space Boy
    • Struggle Between Words
    • The Day I Disappeared
    • The International
    • The World’s a Stage
    • When One Treatment Won’t Do
  • Issue 010, Spring 2016
    • Featured Artist: Georgia Kasamias
    • Forewords: Issue 010
    • History of Breaking Down
    • I Open My Eyes to Dark
    • In the Beginning
    • Issue 010 Staff
    • Issue 10 Sponsors
    • Mazza’s Vignette #75
    • Montana
    • Oasis
    • Rain of Animals
    • Second and Goal
    • Sister
    • Some Kind of Death
    • The Cairn Builder
    • The Daughters of Le Vallée des Singes
    • The Lord Works Late Night
    • The Lord Works Late Night
    • The Skyline, 1988
    • The Thrill is Gone
    • The Tuna Can
    • Tree in November
    • Vacation
    • Where Does the Night Lead
    • Wild n Running
    • Wood Song
  • Issue 011, Fall 2016
    • A Lady’s Prayer
    • A Moment with Mary Biddinger
    • Bowne Street Beauty
    • Conversations
    • Emetophobia: An Experiment
    • Eve
    • Featured Artwork: Georgia Kasamias
    • For sinners, for poets
    • Foreword: Issue 011
    • God Speaks to Grandfather
    • History Lesson III
    • How did the father of songs look to you before you were swept back under?
    • if my vagina had lips to speak
    • Issue 011 Staff
    • Maybe Sadie
    • Morning Commute
    • Other Girls
    • Our Mouths are Stained with Bitterness: Raising Isaac
    • Oxeye Daisy
    • Still Life with Sister
    • Tending History
    • The Asaph Church Witch, 1826
    • The Earth Grows Gently
    • The Marvellous Mr. Marble
    • This is Where I Say Goodbye
    • Where I’m From
    • Wing Night
  • Issue 013, Fall 2017
    • All Things American
    • Chasing Eden
    • Cold
    • Featured Artist: Julian Ford
    • Foreword: Issue 013
    • Fortune’s Caprice
    • How Many Packs a Day Does That Make
    • Infant: A Folklore
    • Issue 013 Staff
    • Stella’s Bathtime Routine
    • Three Crones Rest Lay
    • Transmigration of Souls
  • Issue 014, Spring 2018
    • Blanche Anne Decides
    • Bread, and
    • Corn Dogs
    • Divergences
    • Featured Artist: Drake Truber
    • February 9, 2018 at 10:39am
    • First Decade
    • Funayurei
    • Issue 014 Staff
    • Lead Paint
    • Love Story of a Book by Li-Young Lee
    • Namyangju
    • Norfolk Pine
    • The Bones of Smoke Stack City
    • The State of the Universe Address
    • The Water Always Called My Name
    • What the Drowned Know
    • When Hans Once Dreamed of Becoming a Mechanic
  • Issue 015, Fall 2018
    • A Tree
    • Can You Really Get By on Three Chords and the Truth?
    • Dolly and Biggie
    • Featured Artist: Savannah Schroll Guz
    • Issue 15 Staff
    • Leaving Ovid for Disco
    • Like a Hurricane
    • Not Dead Yet
    • Out of Range
    • Persephone and Demeter
    • Portrait of Rock ‘N’ Roll as Car Crash
    • Red Heels
    • Ruined Piano
    • Sixpence a Straitjacket: A Psychedelic Sonnet
    • Sweet Noise
    • The Bar Is Empty at 11 a.m. on a Saturday Morning
    • The Big Sneeze
    • The Center Won’t Hold
    • This is the Last Poem I Will Write in 2017
    • Warming our Voices
    • Yourself is Steam
  • Issue 016, Spring 2019
    • 200 Words
    • 89A
    • Body Too Big
    • Calling George Jackson from Attica Prison, August 22nd, 1971
    • Emerald Dirt
    • Featured Artist: Ann Marie Brown
    • I Was Bigfoot’s Love Slave
    • In Charlie Ryan’s Near Dead Eyes
    • In Dearth
    • Isolation
    • Issue 016 Staff
    • Looper
    • Never Received
    • Obliques
    • PARTS
    • Ripple Effect
    • Tasseography
    • The Secret Ingredient
    • Under the Weather
    • Up the Stream
    • Words
  • Issue 017, Fall 2019
    • A Mobile Hangs Over the Crib
    • Cassette Tapes Improved My Attention Span
    • Conrad Station
    • Contact
    • Corner of Los Animales/Youngstown
    • Fairy Lights
    • Featured Artist: Carolyn Adams
    • For Janie
    • Gypsy Lane
    • Hungry for Orchids
    • In Response to Change
    • Issue 017 Staff
    • Junie Rosedale Likes a Lemon Cake
    • Keelhauling
    • No Woke Till War-Town
    • Obituary of the Female Artist
    • The Banality of Cities and Grammar
    • The Mexican Strikes It Big in Hollywood
  • Issue 018, Fall 2020
    • Amsterdam
    • Before a Storm on Lake Erie
    • Betel Nut Days
    • Folk Music
    • Glover at Six
    • Issue 018 Staff
    • Nets
    • Scranton Is
    • The Last Ladder on Earth
    • The Little Market
    • The Question of What to Do with a Body
    • Townscaping
    • Urban Provincialism
    • Warmth
    • Why do two birds sit ten feet away on a wire?
  • Issue 019, Spring 2021
    • Battery Days
    • Black Sheets
    • In Charlie Ryan’s Near Dead Eyes
    • Infant: A Folklore
    • Issue 019 Staff
    • Jenny Magazine: 10-Year Retrospective
      • An Interview with Amber C. (Pence) Moon
      • An Interview with Andrew Whitmer
      • An Interview with Christopher Lettera
      • An Interview with Sarah Burnett
      • An Introduction by Christopher Barzak
    • Love at the End of the World
    • No Woke Till War-Town
    • Second Fiddle
    • The Bones of Smoke Stack City
    • The Day I Disappeared
    • Three to Life
    • Veins in Metal Frames
    • Where I’m From
    • Youngstown
  • Issue 020, Spring 2022
    • A Moment with Ellen Datlow
    • At the Flower Market
    • Bad Beat
    • By the Creek
    • CandyGrams
    • Chaos Theory
    • Chorni Diamanti
    • Factory Floor
    • False Memory and I am Choked
    • Fast Love
    • Featured Artist: Federico Federici
    • Featured Artwork: Ana Prundaru
    • Featured Artwork: Cindy Matthews
    • Featured Artwork: Issue 012
    • Fishing Around in the Dog Days of August
    • Foreword: Issue 012
    • Forewords: Issue #020
    • Hostage’s Love Poem
    • How to Become a (Failed) Vegetarian
    • I Am Not Your God
    • I Dreamt of Nothing and Nowhere
    • Issue 020 Staff
    • Issue 12 Staff
    • It’s January Again
    • Man and Wife
    • Meltdown
    • Northwest Indiana
    • Planned Planethood
    • Proper Disposal of Sharps
    • Something About Forgetfulness
    • Standing at the Dam Flume on the Cuyahoga River
    • Swamp Legacy
    • Take My Picture
    • The Boy Who Thought He Was a Glass of Orange Juice
    • The First Dream, Pre-Surgery
    • the magi
    • the pennsylvania death rattle
    • The War Hero
    • Three to Life
    • To Make It Across Kansas You Need Enough Imagination to Ignore That You’re In Kansas
    • White Elephant
  • Issue 21, Spring 2023
    • A Little Too Bright and Not Quite Real
    • Artifact
    • Backyard Pet Cemetery
    • Believe It
    • Do You Believe
    • Ever After
    • Featured Artist: Gavin Esposito
    • Forewords: Issue 21
    • Interview with the Oracle
    • Issue 21 Staff
    • Leavenworth O’Riley
    • Like the Branches We Grew Thick
    • Pennies from Heaven
    • Revenant
    • Spirit Grove
    • Tanglewood
    • The Corn Knows What Happened Here
    • The Necromancer
    • The Sky Our Home
    • Visitors
    • Zygosis
  • Issue 22, Spring 2024:
    • A Cloudy Disposition
    • About to Run
    • Austenitic Class
    • Books of Sand
    • Deer, Deer, Deer!
    • Essence of Life
    • Foreword: Issue 22
    • Glassware
    • I’m from the Memories of Generations Before Me
    • Idora Park; Youngstown, Ohio (1899-2001)
    • Issue 22 Staff
    • Lasting Black Monday
    • Lot 649
    • Measurement
    • My Mommy
    • Open Hearth, 1962
    • Papaver somniferum
    • Playing to an Empty Room
    • Republic Steel
    • Softer Worlds
    • Something to Crow About
    • Steelbeam vs. Doctor Decay
    • The Amazing Story of Dr. Megrelian’s Itinerant Circus and Human Zoo
    • The Ghost of Westside’s Past
    • The Haunting of Idora Park
    • The Kisses I Forgot
    • The Lady of the Pool of Shadows
    • The Light on Shadeland Drive
    • To Steel Oneself
    • Torn Apart
    • Wintry Aspects Of – And On – Lake Newport
    • Youngstown
    • Youngstown Considers the Future
  • Issue 23, Spring 2025
    • (Dis) Orientation
    • Amandine and the Locket
    • Consumed
    • Cry Alchemy
    • Fateful Reunion
    • Featured Artist: Jamie Beasley
    • Grief
    • I’ll Write to You When Winter Fades
    • If There Ever Was a Moment
    • If Wishes Were Dishes
    • Issue 23 Staff
    • Metathesiophobia
    • Moonlit Bonds
    • Ode to a Small Town, an Idyllic Childhood, and my Encounters with Benton MacKaye, the Founder of the Appalachian Trail
    • Teaching Me My Nature
    • The Temple of Narcissus
    • We We See Ourselves in Wings
    • We Were That Family
    • What is to be Done Now?
    • Why We Prefer Not To Trust the Ground
    • Why We Worry
  • Issue Archives
  • Jenny: Issue 002, Spring 2011
    • A Moment with Rebecca Barnhouse
      • “Peaceweaver”: Chapter 1 Excerpt
    • Afterhouse
    • At The Event Museum
    • Before I was Born
    • Black Sheets
    • Catala
    • Doors
    • Fastening
    • Five Inches of Rain
    • Forewords
    • Howlin’ in the Dark
    • I Believe This Belongs to You
    • Idora
    • Keep Looking
    • Less
    • Mudpie
    • On the Line
    • Reflections of a Housecleaner
    • Relief Effort
    • Say It In Chinese
    • See the Dead Man
    • Shackled
    • Six Chimps and a Typewriter
    • Staff: Issue #002
    • The Coin-Operated Burglar Strikes Again
    • The Umbrella Factory
    • The Willing
    • Tom’s Time Machine
    • Wake
    • What I Don’t Remember
    • Whistling
  • News
  • Sample Page
  • About Jenny
    • Staff
  • Jenny: Issue 001, Fall 2010
    • “Aphrodite”
    • “Black Jack and Sacrifice”
    • “Braceros”
    • “Braceros”
    • “Communing With the Past” – Sean Posey
    • “Divorce, 1994”
    • “Dreaming in Flesh”
    • “Friday Night at the West Fork”
    • “Guadalajara Holiday”
    • “High School Yearbook”
    • “Improving on the Formula”
    • “In Time”
    • “Laying on of Hands”
    • “Love Cows”
    • “Lucky, I Guess”
    • “Mason Jars are for Fireflies and Pretty Girls”
    • “My Father’s Poetry”
    • “Patent Pending”
    • “Rain Girl”
    • “Runt”
    • “Second Fiddle”
    • “Sex Education According to My Mother”
    • “Smokestacks Like The Arms of Gods”
    • “Some Thoughts on Morphine”
    • “Song of the Servants”
    • “Sunday Evenings are for Potatoes and Baked Beans”
    • “The Bridge”
    • “The Chilly Unknown”
    • “The Next World War”
    • “The Punter”
    • “The Voyeur of Harper’s Valley”
    • “Waiting for the Sun to Rise”
    • “Wanna Hear a Story?”
    • “Wheel of Fortune”
    • “And The Winner Is”
    • “Globe-Spinning”
    • “Ray Ann Walker, Saint Rita Church Festival, 1971″
    • A Moment with Sherry Linkon
    • A Moment with William Greenway
    • Forewords
    • Staff: Issue #001
  • Youngstown Reading Series
    • An Interview with Susan Linville
      • “Ah, Jenny”
      • “Living Coal and Steel”
  • SMARTS
  • Sponsor Jenny
  • Submission Guidelines

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