Jules Jacob

Jules Jacob is the author of three collections including Kingdom of Glass & Seed (Lily Poetry Review Books, October 2023) and Rappaccini’s Garden (White Stag Publishing, August 2024), an illustrated collection of poisonous plant poems co-authored with Sonja Johanson. Jules’ poems, author interviews, features, and book reviews appear or are forthcoming in Tupelo Quarterly, Plume, Lily Poetry Review, Rust + Moth, Laurel Review, Poetry is Bread and elsewhere. Jules is an Emeritus Master Gardener, recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Auvillar, France and former Court Appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children.

  • Sky Grief

    Arizona and the Black Canyon
  • One for André Breton

    Always for the first time
  • Strychnine Tree

    Stranger under this love-sick tree, lapful of terminal clusters
  • Pensé Que Estabas Muerto

    but your deaths existed the nights you didn’t come home.