Reposted by Jana-Lee GermaineNew Ohio Review @newohioreview.bsky.social · 18/05/2026newohioreview.org/2026/02/12/f... @jlgerm.bsky.social 021
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I’m still in shock, but I’m so grateful and excited for this upcoming residency! And to eat casados every day while I’m there (my absolute favorite meal ever!!) A huge thank you to Lisa Mottolo and the rest of the team at Atmosphere Press for giving me this opportunity to write in Costa Rica. 000
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I’m still in shock, but I’m so grateful and excited for this upcoming residency! And to eat casados every day while I’m there (my absolute favorite meal ever!!) A huge thank you to @lisamottolopoetry and the rest of the team at @atmospherepress for giving me this opportunity to write in Costa Rica. 000
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 25/03/2026newohioreview.org/2026/02/12/f... Thank you @newohioreview.bsky.social for giving this poem a place in your pages. ❤️newohioreview.orgFirst JoyBy Jana-Lee Germaine Hard to pick the moment—first smudge of my smile when my nephew, learning the Earth’s age, told his teacher Grandpa’s old as dirt! so serious, so proud to connect eons with epo… 020
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I’m honored to have my poem “Breaks Things” in the 12th Pangyrus Anthology. A huge thank you to Greg Harris, Amanda Lewis, Kayla Griffin, Esther Weeks, and the rest of the team at Pangyrus for putting together an anthology filled with such powerful work! 1224
Reposted by Jana-Lee Germainepresencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026"Paws kneading the quilt, / My bare feet on the heating element. / And the small house, quietly, sails / Between seas and land." "Sailing" by Rita Kogan, trans. by Zachary Sholem Berger in Presence 2025. 031
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Penelope wanted to go see Boston Ballet perform The Nutcracker Suite. What a magical night! I remember seeing it for the first time when I was in high school, too. 010
Reposted by Jana-Lee Germainepresencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 12/12/2025"Where everything is wholly / holy, where we have transparent / skin & the liminal is not wedged / between what was & what will be." Sarah Dickenson Snyder, "In Another Dimension" in Presence 2025. 011
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I’m delighted to have my poem “First Joy” in the current print issue of New Ohio Review! A huge thank you to Dave Wanczyk, @damiencowger.bsky.social & all the staff @newohioreview.bsky.social who worked so hard on this issue! 021
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I’m honored to have “The Peacock Takes the Stairs” & “The Peacock Loses His Mate” as part of Kenzie Allen’s guest-edited “More-Than-Human-World” folio in the current issue of Poet Lore. Thank you to @cerena.bsky.social @eaholla.bsky.social & the rest of the crew for another fantastic issue! 042
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 20/09/2025I woke up today remembering the Bread Loaf hay ride - it was like being in an MMA fight with a tractor. Most vicious hay ride I've ever been on, and the most fun, too. 010
Reposted by Jana-Lee Germainepresencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 02/08/2025"Yet when they sing all the woe of the world / Is transformed. It is as if they / Have touched the tips of their fingers / To the air. The suffering, the blood-vaporized air." Gregory Orfalea, "It Is Hard To Speak" in Presence 2025. 011
Reposted by Jana-Lee Germainepresencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 11/07/2025"Pablo Medina's newest book of poetry, Sea of Broken Mirrors, [is] a collection of radiant and visceral poems whose graceful movements and keen insights are pure pleasure from start to finish." -- from Jana-Lee Germaine's review in Presence 2025 011
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025waterstonereview.com/in-the-field...waterstonereview.comIn The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jana-Lee Germaine | Water~Stone Review 030
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 04/06/2025I feel so honored and humbled to be a recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award for Literature for 2025. The funds will allow me to go away on a writing retreat for September so that I can finally finish my first manuscript of poetry.sbcfboston.orgEmerging Artist Recipients – St. Botolph Club Foundation 010
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 18/05/2025www.ronslate.com/will/ronslate.com“Will” – On the Seawall 030
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Delighted to announce that my poem "Swing" is in the current issue of MER (Vol. 23). You can hear me read it in their first issue launch reading, recorded here: youtu.be/1W05WnyO4Ec?... Such a great afternoon of poetry and prose! I was blown away by all the amazing work. (I'm about 15 min in FYI). 020
Reposted by Jana-Lee Germainepresencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Martha Silano from Presence '21 www.versedaily.org/2021/soulrec... "It turns out gravity// doesn’t hold for souls; souls drift, like loons/ between dives, into eternity,//...//My travel speed is two inches per year,/ same as the moon from Earth. A little less bound by gravity./A little more free. 041
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I received my contributor’s copy of Nelle in the mail a few days ago - so happy to have my poem “Breakfast: Beach” published by them. Thank you Lauren Slaughter and Kristin Entler; it’s a fantastic issue! 040
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I'm delighted to announce that "What the Officer Said" has been released in issue 89 by Bellingham Review! bhreview.org/articles/wha...bhreview.orgWhat the Officer Said - Bellingham ReviewThis city unstrings its fingerbones, unravels the dressI hide behind; doorsfixed shut, eyes on every clock blind. Solitaire cards played in the dark This 020
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I’m so happy to be part of Ploughshares! I had a fantastic time sitting at the Ploughshares booth with our managing editor Rachel Dillon. She’s amazing! 🩷 030
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Fantastic first day at AWP! So thankful for all the old connections made in past years and renewed again and new connections made. There’s so much life-giving energy in this writing community! 030
Reposted by Jana-Lee GermaineLiterary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 18/03/2025"I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego and where you're constantly focused on scoring hits against one another. Yes, we need a robust democracy, but you can be strong, and you can be kind." - Jacinda Ardern, former PM of New Zealand 073
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I'm thrilled to have two poems out in Pangyrus online! I love that they also asked me to write a short bit on the origin of each poem and why I chose to make the creative choices I did when writing them. ☺ www.pangyrus.com/poetry/break... www.pangyrus.com/poetry/debt-...pangyrus.comBreaks Things | PangyrusHis smile corner-cracked, creases sticking, splinters from a rough railing I smooth with my hands, little pincushion girl, little bruises, broken toes, his ... 020
Reposted by Jana-Lee Germainepresencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 07/02/2025"𝑅𝑒-𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒 / to bind again / the once-sundered / as earth and heaven / at Origin / this wonderous / stitching- / on-the-wing a rite / of morning / wren of bat / by night" Steve Myers "Powers on Podcast (Merwin in Mind)" in Presence 2024. 031
Reposted by Jana-Lee Germainepresencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 10/01/2025"Give them wind tattering their dresses / Offer them salt from the hands of prisoners / gold from a field of rapeseed / Come, with your teeth in your pocket / Watch while they scatter the crystal" Lee Sharkey, "For the Ghosts" in Presence 2024. 031
Reposted by Jana-Lee Germainepresencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 03/01/2025"Monkey ranks 19, dragon 20. Coming in at 37 out of 100,000?/ Tinkle. No idea why. My favorite is the pilgrim, supplicant,/ who tries to avoid red letter scolding and reset: letmein." Tina Kelley, "Lessons from the List of 100,000 Most Hacked Passwords" in Presence 2024. 031
Reposted by Jana-Lee Germainepresencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Staff Updates from 2024: 4) Presence poets Mia Schilling Grogan and Jana-lee Germaine now serve as Social Media Marketing Co-Managers and regularly post to Facebook, Instagram, X, and BlueSky. Find Mia’s at www.chc.edu/academics/fa.... Find Jana-Lee at janaleegermaine.comjanaleegermaine.comJana-Lee Germaine | 031
Reposted by Jana-Lee Germainepresencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 20/12/2024"Help us to sing - / Even trees praise, and patterns / Of snow - though it's perilous this / Season, to go where we long to go." Sandra Duguid, "A Christmas Prayer" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry #christmaspoems 021
Reposted by Jana-Lee Germainepresencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 13/12/2024"The apples may be cold and pockmarked and / the figs may be forbidden but you're still alive / more or less and you have your tongue and your spite / and other ingredients necessary for a summoning." Rebecca Bratten Weiss "Midway in the journey of our life" in Presence 2024. 062
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024My boy is home for Thanksgiving!!! I’m so happy to have him back for a few days! 🩷 010
Reposted by Jana-Lee GermaineKelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024If you don't know this poet, you should. He died too early and I have carried this poem with me since his death in 2001. I believe everyone should know it... those last 2 lines. From Rooms Are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali. 1916041
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I'm so honored and delighted to have my poem "February at the Johnson's" in the current issue of Water~Stone Review alongside absolute rock-star poets that I love! Thank you to Meghan Maloney-Vinz and all the other editors who worked so hard to put out such a fantastic and beautiful issue. 081
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 30/08/2024You know you're a book nerd when your beach reading consists of George Eliot and Marianne Boruch...🥰 031
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 25/07/2024So thankful to have two poems in the current issue of Chautauqua and to have been able to take part in the 150th anniversary reading at Chautauqua Instition. Thank you to Jill Gerard and Stephine Hunt for putting together such a fantastic night! 030
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 05/07/2024I'm so thrilled to have my poem "At the Drive-In Volcano" published in the current issue of Bracken. Thank you to @katedeimling.bsky.social and all the editors for their hard work in putting out such a fantastic issue! www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xi/at-...brackenmagazine.comAt the Drive-In Volcano by Jana-Lee Germaine — BrackenWe slather ourselves with mud. Grey, gritty sludge, sulphurous, squidging into skin’s every follicle, our whole group giddy as children, smearing each other’s backs... 040
Jana-Lee Germaine @jlgerm.bsky.social · 28/06/2024Delighted to have my poem "Old Wallpaper" in Presence 2024! We had a fantastically fun issue launch party in NYC last weekend. Thank you to everyone who came and supported the event! 070
