Poetry.  Photography.

Jeanne Julian

November woods, Massachusetts

Cormorants at Kettle Cove, Cape Elizabeth, Maine


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A video of my poem "The Color of It" that's in included in the anthology From Pandemic to Protest, released fall 2021 from The Poetry Box.

- "They Leave the Potluck" is in the Winter section of The Northeast Coast, issue II.


- The Kleksograph for January 2026 is out, with a poem of mine included. Poetry, prose, and art in a free PDF!


- Very much appreciate Rust & Moth including my poem "The Arborist's Embrace" in their Autumn 2025 issue, amid some cool poems by others: check out a contemporary sonnet by Marc Alan di Martino, "Splitscreen: Skatepark." 


- Jackdaw Review issues come to you as an attractive online flipbook, with some provocative art work! My poem "Lament on Leaving Home for Two Weeks" is in Issue #2.


- Two poems in volume 4, issue 1, of Sangam.


- Pedestal Magazine, issue 96, includes my review of the collection Perishable by Stelios Mormoris (Tupelo Press). Sorry to hear that the talented John Amen, who's edited this fine journal for a remarkable 25 years, will be ending its run with issue 97.




...the closed circle that seemed to warm itself

around some pit of hospitably glowing coals

that, stoked, might shoot up into hostile flames.....

—from"They Leave the Potluck,"  in The Northeast Coast, issue II



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“There’s this Chekhov quote that I’m kind of living by lately. He says a work of art doesn’t have to solve a problem — it just has to formulate it correctly. So in this book there are two characters who embody that question, and I think they’re both right. My job, rather than answering your question, is to allow each of them to make the best possible case for their view. So with this book and with Lincoln in the Bardo, I wrote myself into a place where the question got more and more profound, and I found myself less and less capable of giving a definitive answer. That’s not for an artist to do. You ratchet the question up, and you go, Yeah, that’s a tough one.”

—George Saunders



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