Jeanann Verlee is a poet, editor, activist, and former punk rocker who collects tattoos and winks at boys. Author of Racing Hummingbirds, recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Poetry, her work also appears in The New York Quarterly, FRiGG, PANK, and decomP, among others. An acclaimed performance poet, she has represented NYC six times at National Poetry Slam competitions, performs and facilitates workshops across North America, and curates the Urbana Poetry Slam series at the Bowery Poetry Club. She lives in New York City with her dog and a pair of origami lovebirds.
"Racing Hummingbirds is a masterful first collection... They are
medicine words."
- The Legendary
"It's poetry with its teeth bared...completely and unapologetically
naked."
- PANK Magazine
"...a roller coaster of imagistic magic. Form, language, allusion,
and voice interact, collide, shape-shift, and duel...throughout an
utterly arresting mosaic."
- Danse Macabre
"Fierce and formidable, Jeanann Verlee is poised to make an
indelible mark - much like a razor slashing silk - on what's become
a comfortably placid poetic landscape."
- Patricia Smith, author of Blood Dazzler and Teahouse of the
Almighty
"...as visceral and searing as it is compassionate and
forgiving.
- Small Press Reviews"
"...one of the most powerful collections I've ever read."
- Roxane Gay, HTML Giant
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