• April 1, 2024
          Finalists reading: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction and Poetry
          April 3, 2024
          One Page Wednesday: APRIL
          April 4, 2024
          Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
          April 8, 2024
          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
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Jessica E. Johnson

Jessica E. Johnson

Jessica E. Johnson writes poetry, nonfiction, and things in between. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Paris Review, River Teeth,  Poetry NorthwestTin House, DIAGRAMFour Way Review, The New Republic, Sixth Finch, and Dream Pop, among others. She is an Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient and an Oregon Book Award Finalist for her chapbook In Absolutes We Seek Each Other (New Michigan Press). She teaches composition, creative writing, and environmental literature at PCC. Metabolics (Acre Books), a book-length poem, is an essential study in the ecologies of contemporary parenting, with adults and children affected by screen time and “feeds” as their bodies metabolize food, the environment, and Excess Feelings, including rage. Johnson employs scientific idiom to construct an allegory about a family in the Pacific Northwest. From climate change to kombucha to smart phones to curated produce, the smallest details of daily life in “Plasticland” catalyze a larger examination of selfhood. Metabolics is her debut full-length collection.

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Apr 8