JESSY RANDALL

readings | visual poems | netcessary lit | women in STEM

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Three poems in Bristlecone, June 2025.

Four very short poems in Snakeskin, May 2025.

The Most Amazing Thing Has Happened in Space Squid, April 2025

Mae Jemison in Hog River, March 2025.

INVITATION: Would you like to receive an email whenever I publish online or when I put out a call for submissions? Email me and say you want to join my poetry announcement list: jessyrandall@yahoo.com.

Jessy Randall

 

BOOKS

The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science, Gold SF / University of London / MIT, May 2025. Women in STEM project

Wonderful, imaginative, lively, angry in a good way -- Nancy Hopkins.

  You Love Libraries

You Love Libraries / When All the Books Are Gone, with Jac Batey. Future Fantasteek #23, July 2025. Dos-à-dos binding (more precisely, tête-bêche or reversible).



Mathematics for Ladies book cover

Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science, Gold SF / University of London/ MIT, 2022. More information.

The only good science fiction poems ever written are by Jessy Randall. -- Annalee Newitz

 

How to Tell If You Are Human: Diagram Poems, Pleiades Press, 2018.

The ultimate user manual for human existence. Finally, it all makes sense! -- Charlie Jane Anders

 

There Was an Old Woman: Poems, Unicorn Press, December 2015.

Each prose poem in this collection includes a line from Mother Goose.

 

Suicide Hotline Hold Music: Poems, Red Hen Press, April 2016. Poems and poetry comics.

Playfully expands the boundaries of both poetry and comics.” -- James Kochalka

 

Interruptions: Collaborative Poems, with Daniel M. Shapiro, Pecan Grove Press, 2011.

A lively, playful collection of poems...
-- Pittsburgh Magazine

 

Injecting Dreams into Cows: Poems, Red Hen Press, September 2012.

Full of fresh insights and some nice wildnesses. -- X.J. Kennedy

 

The Wandora Unit: A Novel, Ghost Road Press, 2009.

Like a John Hughes movie about the Bloomsbury Group -- Charlie Jane Anders

  A Day in Boyland

A Day in Boyland: Poems, Ghost Road Press, 2007. A finalist for the Colorado Book Award.

Makes you want to jump on the couch and yell, I love this poet! -- Leonard Gontarek

 

 

CHAPBOOKS

What If You Were Happy for Just One Second: Instructional Diagrams, with Daniel M. Shapiro, BOAAT Press, 2014. Free digital book.

Broken Heart Diet and Other Food Poems, signed, limited edition chapbook, Unicorn Press, 2006. Because Mona is in the Psychiatric Hospital, Pudding House, 2005.

Slumber Party at the Aquarium, signed, limited edition chapbook, Unicorn Press, 2004.

Big by Little Miniature book, Big by Little and Little by Big, Fishtales Press, 2003 tornado Dorothy Surrenders, electronic, illustrated chapbook of Wizard of Oz poems, 2River, 1999.


SCIENCE FICTION

asimovs Heartbeat of the Universe

Analog: Hertha Ayrton with online interview, First Scientist, more
Asimov's: A Different Kind of Stupid, I Have a Remote, The Mirror Speaks, Annie Jump Cannon,Helen Taussig, more
Escape into Life: The Lollyball Problem and The Lump
Eye to the Telescope: Our Morganna, Food Radio
Flurb: Alphabet Island
The Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems from Asimov's and Analog
: Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, Maryam Mirzakhani
Just Like a Girl
: The Loop
Kaleidotrope: The Light Market and the Language Market
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet: The Hedon-Ex Anomaly, Anonymized Orgies, more
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry: The Seductiveness of the Memory Hole
Mythic Delirium: Maybe a Witch Lives There
Nature: 'If I Could Travel in Time' by Zed 5755 with a German translation in Spektrum
Opium: Unt Not Invent System (Literary Death Match video)
Scientific American: Elizabeth Agassiz
Star*Line: Crackling Octopus, more
Strange HorizonsCassini's Mini-Packets HomeFood Diary of Gark the Troll, more
Theaker's
: Frakking Toasters: The Language of Battlestar Galactica, more
Things You Can Create
: Story Time for Forest Troop Glink: Return of the Entwives HUMOR

women in STEM project


AND ALSO

Brain, Child: Breastfeeding Tips from the Experts
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Everyone's Hair in Middle School, New Pay-Per-View Channels, Mundane Dreams, and What the People Who Used to Live in My House Apparently Said to Each Other Before Selling It to Me
Mountain Man Dance Moves: McSweeney's Book of Lists: Seven Things Total Strangers Apparently Think It’s Perfectly Appropriate to Say to a Woman Discreetly Breastfeeding in Public(selected)

Wizard Words: The Literary, Latin, and Lexical Origins of Harry Potter's Vocabulary, in Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, Spring 2001. Widely reprinted. Full article. Follow-up article, Historifans, February 2023.

Guest editor, Snakeskin, theme issues on fatherhood, motherhood, deadly sins, fairy tales, libraries, the alphabet, school, collaborations, toys, work, food, found poems, poetry comics, monsters, friendship, numbers/mathematics, cryptozoology, music, and science fiction.

Interviews in Analog, Catalyst, The Colorado Poet, E-Words, Folded Word Press, Hairstreak Butterfly, Interstellar Flight Magazine, Poemeleon, Murder Your Darlings, Escape into Life, and Little Myths. Audio interviews at Lost Women of Science, Delving In, KRFC, and at KRCC about A Day in Boyland and things found in books.

Library Shenanigans | Suzie | Karen | Santa Clause is Socrates | Colorado Poets Center | Poetry Foundation


 
 


 

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