3 Forthcoming Publications of poetry and critical prose by Jennifer K Dick

So excited to have poetry and a critical chapter appearing in the following publications: 

Please keep your eyes peeled, or pre-order: Gutter 33, Arcturus Magazine or the critical book Anne Carson and the Unknown from University of Michigan Press to support my, Jennifer K Dick's, writing and that of so many others. 

GUTTER Magazine (Scotland) has kindly accepted for publication in its February issue, N° 33, the poem "Siren" (pp 16-18) from my forthcoming BlazeVox book Shelf Break. The Gutter Mag issue is full of some spectacular writing that I am thrilled to be published alongside, including authors I wish I had already known but now am thrilled to have discovered thanks to them, such as the amazing Ayaka Florence Nguyen, with their unexpected cultural fusion Noh play they explain is inspired by Scottish folklore and is titled "An t-Each Fon Uisge" or Christian Wards' spectacular and hilarious "Polar Bear" prose poem as well as the poem that makes me want to tuck myself under a duvet with a good scotch and give it another and another reread: Ben Blyth's "Peat Smoke". There is also a really rich, moving at times, and thoroughly thought-provoking interview by Zain Rishi of Rebecca Ferrier. The issue also features fabulous reviews, short stories as well as some translations of Chinese poetry, too. So, thank you to the Gutter editors for including my poem, and for readers and art supporters everywhere for picking up a copy or subscribing. 

 

Arcturus: A Magazine of New Perspectives--has also kindly accepted poetry which is forthcoming this spring online. In this case, 2 of my more recent CERN prose poems--CERN 68 and CERN 70. The adventure continues! I am thrilled to have work selected for inclusion in this dynamic online magazine, which is explained in their about section as Chicago Magazine editor"an online literary magazine of new perspectives in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid genres". The work already published on the site is really a treat to read and worth checking out, such as the rhythmic "Mysterioso" poem after Thelonious Monk by Chris Ritter, or the wonderful nonfiction piece by Yoko Lida Frost "The Citizenship Test"--this is a strong prose piece fitting to reflect on (especially its optimism) in our current context. As she is being sworn in, observes and asks of another person, a Cambodian being naturalized with her, "How could she move on as a citizen of the country that had bombed and killed hundreds of thousands of her fellow countrymen, which, most believed, led to the rise of Pol Pot? Would her stories ever be heard, and become part of American history? Who writes it? We’d better write it. That would be the only way to make our oath worthwhile, and to prevent the next genocide." Yes, absolutely. Thank you for that, Yoko Lida Frost, and thank you to the readers and editors of Arcturus--poetry director Chrissy Martin, and current poetry editors Belee Jones-Pierce and and Sara Verstynen who have accepted my work. 

 

Lastly, I am very excited to have gone through the laborious but extremely enriching editing process with the amazing Helena Van Praet and Christine Wiesenthal in whose hands my chapter “De-Stabilizing the Known / Restoring the Unknown: Reading Anne Carson through the Lens of Quantum Physics”, has matured and soon appears in the already ready-for-pre-order critical edition on Anne Carson:  ANNE CARSON AND THE UNKNOWN, ed.s Helena Van Praet and Christine Wiesenthal (Univ of Michigan Press, 2026—available at: https://press.umich.edu/Books/A/Anne-Carson-and-the-Unknown) I hope that those of you who study, teach and read Carson will get a copy of this book and also encourage your university libraries and students to also pick one up.

 

Reading at ZIGZAG reading room, Brussels, Sat 17 January 2026!

 I am thrilled to be participating in the "GARDENS OF THE POSSIBLE" reading: Jennifer K Dick with the amazing MIA YOU and the astounding JULIE CARR this saturday in Brussels. The event will be held at (and is organized by) the Zigzag Reading room. They have announced that the doors open at 19h30, reading is at 20H! 

 

 

                   ZigZag Reading Room is at: Rue Blaes 52, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgique

Zig Zag is delighted to welcome the poets Julie Carr, Mia You, and Jennifer K. Dick for an evening of nocturnal winter gardening. The work of these three poets moves through layers of time, speaking to how human histories—events, cultures, economies, and power structures—superimpose themselves onto the natural and built environment, shaping and being shaped by slow sedimentation and a manifold / unfolding other.

Besides the readings, their books will be on sale, and several kinds of winter-y drinks will be served. After the reading there will be ample space to exchange. 

~ Doors open at 19:30, start at 20:00

~ Open and free for all, no rsvp needed

 

Biographies:

Julie Carr’s recent books are Underscore; Mud, Blood, & Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, & Spiritualism in the American West; & Real Life: An Installation. Her co-translations of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory and The Book of Skies, were published by Commune Editions & Pamenar Press. Overflow, a trilogy, will be published sequentially over the next few years. She lives in Denver where she co-runs Counterpath, teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder, & hosts the podcast “Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone.”

Mia You is the author of the poetry collections Festival (Belladonna, 2025; Uitgeverij Chaos, 2024) and I, Too, Dislike It (1913 Press, 2016), and the chapbooks Rouse the Ruse and the Rush (Nion Editions, 2023) and Objective Practice (Achiote Press, 2007). She currently lives in the Netherlands and teaches English literature at the Universiteit Utrecht and in the Critical Studies program at the Sandberg Instituut.

Jennifer K Dick is an author, translator, events organizer and academic with 4 books and 7 art/chapbooks most recently That Which I Touch Has No Name (BlackSpring Press Group, London, 2022), Meridian  (artist book, Estepa Editions, Paris, 2022) & Lilith: A Novel in Fragments (Corrupt Books, Luxembourg, 2019). Her 5^th collection of poems, Shelf Break, is forthcoming from BlazeVox in NYC 2026. She co-curates Ivy Writers Paris and co-directs the Ecrire l’Art residency for French authors with La Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d’Art Contemporain.