Jennifer Espinoza, our poetry mentor who will be multi-genre mentor next semester, is featured by the Academy of American Poets.

Our love eats

the deadly sounds men

make when they see

how much magic

we have away

from them.

—Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, from “This Is What Makes Us Worlds”

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The featured poems by Jennifer include: Things Haunt , Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star, This Is What Makes Us Worlds , and It Is Important To Be Something,

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza is the author of There Should Be Flowers (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and i’m alive / it hurts / i love it (Boost House, 2014). Espinoza’s poems have also appeared online, in publications including The Feminist Wire and The Offing, and in the e-book In Fear of a Trans Planet (Be About It Press, 2015). She is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of California Riverside and lives in Riverside, California.