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Mara Jebsen

Mara Jebsen: Come Undone

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

it is a night for nostalgia and hectic forecasts. i didn’t burn the dinner and the sun went down just the same, like an egg, like an egg poached in smoke and i never saw the news. the past, like a foreign city beckons in a mirror—high hope and bright light— and i wonder if […]

Filed Under: Contributors 94, Issue 94, Poetry, Poetry 94 Tagged With: Contributors 94, Mara Jebsen, Poetry, Poetry 94

Mara Jebsen

March 20, 2013 by PBQ

Mara Jebsen is a Language lecturer at NYU. She performs many of her poems in New York and writes essays for 3quarksdaily. She is a 2009 NYFA fellow in poetry.

Filed Under: Contributors 83, Contributors 85, Issue 85 Tagged With: Contributors, Contributors 83, Contributors 85, Mara Jebsen

Mara Jebsen: Manhatta Menagerie

October 25, 2012 by PBQ

(Manahatta, I’ve heard, was once the word for “hilly island in wolf country”) each was crouched in the bare-bone black- knuckle misery of his private winter. then come the intoxicant of air. now, unfurling from our spines: small creatures— a dragon, wolf, tender-necked giraffe; the tawny, sweet-blooded african lion; a witch stick-puppet from our childhoods […]

Filed Under: Contributors 85, Issue 85, Poetry, Poetry 85 Tagged With: Contributors 85, Mara Jebsen, Poetry, Poetry 85

Mara Jebsen: A Reason to Howl

October 25, 2012 by PBQ

A grieving mind is wild dogs & flowers. It wags a center like a stamen, like a dusty yellow tongue. It soothes the heartache of a widow as she grips a wooden spoon, plumping up a chicken in a pot of sliced onion. Her bad husband undid her apron. He was risen shining-fresh from the […]

Filed Under: Contributors 85, Issue 85, Poetry, Poetry 85 Tagged With: Contributors 85, Mara Jebsen, Poetry, Poetry 85

Mara Jebsen: Island

October 25, 2012 by PBQ

Love is a country I lived in once. You can only get there by boat. Over here, things are pretty good. The grass grows straight & the sky makes sense. I have a lot of little tasks.         Sometimes  when I sing, I sound like someone else.        Birds interest […]

Filed Under: Contributors 85, Issue 85, Poetry, Poetry 85 Tagged With: Contributors 85, Mara Jebsen, Poetry, Poetry 85

Mara Jebsen: Sundays in Lomé

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

By the jelly blue lights of an ocean The day wakes, and breaks into sweat Beach saunterers gossip of potions, The power of juju, the wet Face of a madman, whose wife, they said put a spell in with the onions— It was a Sunday of church, vodou, and knife Her stewpots were seized by […]

Filed Under: Contributors 83, Issue 83, Poetry, Poetry 83 Tagged With: Contributors 83, Mara Jebsen, Poetry, Poetry 83

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