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Jessy Randall, writer. (Also librarian.)

A Day in Boyland | other publications | Colorado Poets Center | readings

A Day in Boyland, Ghost Road Press, 2007. Available from Small Press Distribution and elsewhere.

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

 

NEW:

"In the Quiet of the Upstairs" in The Mom Egg.

"Symptoms," "Pleasant," and "Wedding Food" in Nth Position.

"The Worst Person / The Best Person" in Asinine Poetry.

"Or Not" (a collaboration with Daniel M. Shapiro) in 42opus.

 

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poetry chapbooks
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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.   Dorothy Surrenders, electronic, illustrated chapbook of Wizard of Oz poems, 2River, 1999.



zine
 [what is a zine?]

The Huge Underpants of Gloom, first issue, self-published 2007.
SOLD OUT		   The Huge Underpants of Gloom, second issue, self-published 2008.

 

other publications

My Mother's Lost Loves in Eclectica, July/August 2007.   "The Mirror Speaks" in the February 2008 issue of Asimov's.
"No Heat = Biscuits" in To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us (Fireside, 2007).   "Sleep Porn" in The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel -- Second Floor (No Tell Books, 2007).
Entries on drinking songs and more in The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink (Oxford University Press, 2007).   "Seven Things Total Strangers Apparently Think It's Perfectly Appropriate to Say to a Woman Discreetly Breastfeeding in Public" in Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists (McSweeneys, 2006).
"Wizard Words: The Literary, Latin, and Lexical Origins of Harry Potter's Vocabulary," in Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, Spring 2001. Reprint, "The Fascinating Language of Harry Potter" in Readings on J.K. Rowling (Greenhaven Press, 2004). A PDF of the article is here.   "Assing Around" (co-written with Wendy Woloson) in Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, Spring 1999. Reprinted in Verbatim: From the Bawdy to the Sublime (ed. Erin McKean, Harvest Books, 2001).
Miniature book, Big by Little and Little by Big, Fishtales Press, 2003.   "Breastfeeding Tips from the Experts" (humor piece) in Brain, Child, Spring 2005.
"Mundane Dreams" (2007) and "What the People Who Used to Live in My House Apparently Said to Each Other Before Selling It to Me" (2006) in McSweeney's.   "Netcessary" pieces in Snakeskin: "A Letter from Henry" (2006) and "The 7th Grade Poems" (2003).
Interview in Megaera, 2004.   Sound file, "The Feeling of the Baby," in Drunken Boat, 2004.
Book reviews in Tutt Library's Bookends blog.   Short story, "The Loop," in Just Like a Girl, forthcoming 2008.

 

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