"Portrait of a woman with wings in oil," TriQuarterly

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“What desolation of life will rise when the ice has melted? / What dance will entertain us before the burning? / What trick of light will mesmerize us first?”

Jamaica (she/her) hails from Santa Cruz, CA by way of Seattle. Her first book, Bone Language, will be published by YesYes Books in 2023. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, Prairie Schooner, World Literature Today, The Adroit Journal and The Missouri Review, among others. She is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, winner of the 2021 RHINO Poetry editor's prize, and winner of the 2019 San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference Contest in Poetry. Her writing has been supported by Hedgebrook, Furious Flower, and the Jack Straw Writers program. Jamaica is currently pursuing her PhD in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with a focus on poetry and Women and Gender Studies.

 

POETRY

FORTHCOMING 

"Country" and "Nation," Southeast Review

"A Language So Fraught," ROOM Magazine

 

PUBLISHED 

 "As the nurse fills out the intake form, the ocean speaks your name, Ruminate

"Father Weaver," Rhino, Summer 2021, 

"Breast/less," rhino, Summer 2021

"Naturally," The Massachusetts Review, Spring 2021 

"Forbidden," The Missouri review, Fall 2020

"Inheritance," The missouri review, Fall 2020

Girl Walks to the Beach," The Missouri review, Fall 2020

"Once at an Art Party in Chelsea," The Missouri Review, Fall 2020

"Unravel," Glass Journal, Special elections feature, Nov. 3 2020

"Windfall," World Literature Today, Sept. 2020

"Home," Guernica, July 2020

“Back in the Day,” The Adroit Journal, Spring 2020 

“What Remains,” December Magazine, Spring 2020

“Haibun for My Brother,” December Magazine, Spring 2020 

“A Brief and Sordid History of the Speculum,” The inspired poet by Susan Landgraf, 2020

“Cell Revolt,” The Inspired Poet by Susan Landgraf, 2020  

“Portrait of a Woman with Wings in Oil,” TriQuarterly, Issue 156, Summer/Fall 2019 

“Teaching the Beasts to Devour My Mother,” San Miguel de Allende Writer’s Contest Winner, 2019

“1981,” Birdfeast #14, 2018. 

“Stitched,” Prairie Schooner, Summer vol. 92, 2018

Symphonies,” Prairie Schooner, Summer Vol. 92, 2018 

“Contortionist,” City Arts Magazine – Seattle, Feb. 27, 2018 

“All That Splendor," Third Coast Magazine, Issue 44, Winter 2018

 “L and I,” Third Coast Magazine, Issue 44, Winter 2018 

“Far from Grace,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue 61, Fall/Winter 2017. 

“Hunger,” Spiral Orb Thirteen, 2017 

“re-Branding,” Limited Edition Broadside, Chatwin Books, 2017

"Jack Straw Anthology" Enough Mountain,” “Year in Review,” & “Survival Tactics,” 2017 

“Father/less,” Seattle Review of Books, March 7th 2017 

“Vigilant,” Seattle Review of Books, March 14th 2017 

“Discarded,” Seattle Review of Books, March 21st 2017 

“Land Mine,” Seattle Review of Books, March 28th 2017 

“Call Me By My Name,”  Rattle - Poets Respond, February 2nd 2017 

EDITOR CREDITS 

Co-Editor, “Opting Out: Early, New and Collected Poems (2000-2015)”, by Maged Zaher. Chatwin Books Seattle, WA. 

Co-Editor, “Open Late: New and Collected Poems (1979-2018)”, by Rex Wilder. Chatwin Books, Seattle, WA.

EVENTS

Smith College Alumnae Reading

Smith College Alumnae Reading

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The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College is hosting a gathering of Alum poets featuring Joan Kwon Glass, Anne Harding Woodworth, Jamaica Baldwin, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Katherine E. Young, Laura Passin, Karen Poppy, and Nancy Meneely. Free and open to all, but registration is required.

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NEWS

Feb 4 2021

2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

DATE: February 4, 2021  

CONTACT: Jamaica Baldwin 

Jamaica Baldwin Receives National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship 

Lincoln, Nebraska—Today, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Jamaica Baldwin is one of 35 writers who will receive an FY…