No Help for That | Jackie Clark

The workshop that I taught at Wendy’s in the fall will be doing a reading at Wendy’s Subway on Friday, January 18 at 7pm. I really don’t know how to rely how great this workshop ended up being. It was just the right mix of participants, all of them thoughtful and generous in their work-shopping […]

I have two poems in the newest issue of The Tiny. You can read them here. Thanks to Gina Myers and Gabriella Torres for including them.

In November I will be teaching a four-week writing workshop at Wendy’s Subway.  Full description of the workshop is below. I am really excited to teach this workshop. Maybe you want to sign up? The Heart of the Matter: A Workshop for Writings in Progress Led by Jackie Clark Dates: Sundays November 4, 11, 18, […]

I am beyond excited that some new writing from a longer series entitled Trying was just published in The Brooklyn Rail.  You can read it here.    

I’m so happy to share the cover of my new chapbook forthcoming from dancing girl press! You can order a copy here. Much gratitude to Kristy Bowen, the sole proprietor of dancing girl press. She’s been at it for at least a decade and never seems to tire. Lucky for us!

image via Mary Corse. Deactivated my Facebook for a bit (forever?). Also, rekindling my love of Raymond Carver, bumped into this poem like an old friend: Romanticism The nights are very unclear here. But if the moon is full, we know it. We feel one thing one minute, something else the next. What else is […]

To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is […]

I’m late posting this news here but after 10 years I’ve decided to put my series Poets off Poetry/Song of the Week on an indefinite hiatus.  I wrote something to try to commemorate the moment. You can read it here. 10 years is a long time to do something and toward the end of 2017 the […]