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Jessica Greenbaum

Jessica Greenbaum is the author of three volumes of poems, each with national citations. A recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Society of America, her work appears in Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prizes for 2024, and A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (Knopf, 2025).  https://poemsincommunity.org/

  • Two Poems

    I had a teacher in a fiction writing class

  • Three Poems

    I sat in the late day sun

  • In the Next Life and The Office of Apology

    When I become the most trusted translator of your poems

  • A Brief Portfolio

    I remembered one day when I was new to that part of the city

  • Reading About Keith Jarrett This Morning in the Paper and Ode to the Table of Contents

    how he probably won’t play in public again

  • Why I Started Writing a Novel

    Earlier today I started writing a novel out of the simple

  • Four a.m. and 40 Years Later

    Driving into my old city yesterday

  • Letter to Jed from Niebla

    I’ll write you about being a stranger, as I am also

  • As So Often Happens | Twenty-two Years Later

    As so often happens, in the middle

  • As So Often Happens | Twenty-two Years Later

    As so often happens, in the middle

  • My Lovely Garonne

    Because every tenth poem or so the poet described