Author Archives: fishclamor

From the Editor’s Perch…by Carl Nelson [Reprinted here because you know, websites expire, …..but please read it at Carl’s site if you can! ] Maternal Horror, review of “How I Kiss Her Turning Head,” by Carl Nelson Jennifer Woodworth’s newest book, How … Continue reading →

Includes study guide! Never in my wildest fantasies…! Thank you so much, Beth Castrodale of Small Press Picks! October 26, 2014 To buy the book, email me at jen ::::@:::: fishclamor dotttt com| Discuss the book (.doc) How I Kiss … Continue reading →

Autunm eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends.From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk:then time returns to the shell. In the mirror it’s Sunday,in dream there is room for sleeping,our mouths speak … Continue reading →

Many thanks to Gone Lawn, which has accepted my prose poem “Even the Sky” for its Summer issue! It kind of goes with “Wake” which they published in their winter issue so I’m especially delighted. Thanks @GoneLawn !

I won’t have any hard copies again for a while, but e-copies I have! 3 bucks! You know you want it. It’s a 30 page prose chapbook. I think you’ll love it. Write me at Jen at {{{{{{Fishclamor.com}. I’ll send … Continue reading →

Posted on Jan 28, 2021 by fishclamor “Soprano” and “Shayna,” Prose-Poems. Listed in Eastern Iowa Review’s “Favorite Prose Poems” section on their Prose Poems page. (Issue 8). Jokes Literary Review , “The Light in the Refrigerator, or, the Ball in … Continue reading →

Eastern Iowa Review: Best Lyric Prose Plus Anthology Editor: Chila Woychick Two of my prose poems are included in this anthology, “Soprano” and “Shayna.” Thank you Chila Woychik and Eastern Iowa review! The anthology is available here at Amazon (please … Continue reading →

From the current Gone Lawn. It took about 3 minutes to read but will never leave me. @GoneLawn. #story of the day

Many thanks to Gone Lawn, which has accepted two poems I love for their December 20th issue—“Wake” and “Lot’s Wife.”

I love the mag. Check it out here. Thanks for stopping by!

This Old Thing? Really? Out of Print, But It Was Here!

There are 36 awesome pieces in today’s new Bending Genres! Many thanks to @bendinggenres for publishing my story-gone-awry, “Unity” in today’s issue!

Many thanks to @Bending Genres Journal for accepting my prose-poem/story-gone-wrong “Unity River” for their August issue!

The last day you were a girl, I saw it: you were falling in love for the first time, the blush, the glow in your cheeks, a little sweeter, a little deeper every day until we could both see the bottom of that wel Continue reading →

Errata Where it says snow read teeth-marks of a virgin Where it says knife read you passed through my bones like a police-whistle Where it says table read horse Where it says horse read my migrant’s bundle Apples are to remain apples Each time a hat appears think of … Continue reading →

Eastern Iowa Review has accepted two of my prose poems (“Soprano” and “Shayna”) for their next edition–check this billboard for details later on! In the meantime, check out the journal–for writers, they are interested in lyric essays and prose poems, … Continue reading →

So I was wondering if maybe you’re putting a load of crap into that one idea that’s bothering you so much, wondering if you could Screw Up so very Importantly. What I mean is this:  suppose it is bothering you that … Continue reading →

My prose chapbook, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, published by Monkey Puzzle Press, is a book with several sketches and short works of fiction about the obsessions and dark thoughts of mothers and babies; it is available for three … Continue reading →

meet me in front of a jazz club in new orleans; there i’ll kiss you   hard. you have been lover to me through lives upon deaths, your fingers   spread in my hair, your demolition kiss a wrecking ball … Continue reading →

The Rings   My husband was a carpenter with hands so big he could wrap them all the way around me. Since I had put off getting my husband’s wedding ring until the day before the wedding, the artist made … Continue reading →

My prose chapbook, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, published by Monkey Puzzle Press, is a book with several sketches and short works of fiction about the obsessions and dark thoughts of mothers and babies; it is available for three … Continue reading →

This is for you, a message thirty years later from “Esmeralda the Gypsy,” who read your palm that Halloween, that brilliant, cold fall night when the whole university was out in costume. The maple candy melted in our mouths, and … Continue reading →

Maternal Horror   Jennifer Woodworth’s newest book, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, which is just out by Monkey Puzzle Press, is a most gentle jaunt into the genre of Maternal Horror.  ‘Maternal Horror’ is a term I have had … Continue reading →