Already, he has worked like this for hours, moving his scythe beneath the gold horizon. There’s stillness here. There is the swirl of wheat, both what’s been cut and what remains standing, and the blade not so different from a bayonet, a...
Jehanne is the author of seven poetry collections, as well as a book of creative nonfiction. An eighth poetry collection, Simple Machines, won the Richard Wilbur Award and will be published in 2020. Her ninth book of poems, Wild Kingdom, is forthcoming from LSU Press in 2021. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, New England Review, and Pleiades, among others. Her poetry collection Stateside was previously reviewed in Consequence. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.