...Jasmine V. Bailey © 2016 Jasmine V. Bailey 2016 Jasmine V. Bailey Full Moon In tonight’s grip your confusion looks like clarity, your window like a mouth, your desk a sumptuous table and the china cabinet like you might crack it open for the first time...

...Jasmine V. Bailey © 2011 Jasmine V. Bailey 2011 Jasmine V. Bailey Charon The Saudi bracelet I wore from four to ten finally had to be cut from my wrist by a jeweler out of place in the mall in Hamilton, New Jersey where he worked. Not often did he help a girl...

... (“Turns of the Centuries In some quarters, it became acceptable to malign these newcomers in language that now sounds chilling. One popular poem, Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s “Unguarded Gates,” mocked Emma Lazarus’ famous inscription. Virtually unknown today, Aldrich...

... Gould, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano, eds. The New Anthology of American Poetry: Volume 2, Modernisms 1900-1950. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2005. Badiou, Alain. Infinite Thought Truth and the Return to Philosophy. New York: Continuum, 2004. Bailey, David A., Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce...

... © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 Contributors Creative Jasmine V. Bailey is the author of Alexandria (2014), winner of the Central New York Book Award, and Sleep and What Precedes It (2009), winner of the Longleaf Press Chapbook prize. Lisa Lynn Biggar received her MFA in fiction...

... 2011 Contributors Creative Jasmine V. Bailey is the Olive B. O’Connor fellow in creative writ­ ing at Colgate University. She holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, and her chapbook, Sleep and What Precedes It, won the Long­ leaf Press 2009 Chapbook Prize. Her first book...

... six hundred pounds of it, her arms raised —​like the dancing bear I saw in Bar­ num Bailey’s Fantastic Roadshow when I was a boy. But this was no dancing bear. She was a grizzly. Eight feet tall and used to having her way in the world. Her dinner-plate paws thrashed apples from my apple...

... she is a woman or he is African American on the assumption that electing the first female or the first African American President of the United States would be an important precedent and a step toward equality. Such people would likely not vote for Kay Bailey Hutchison...

..., dear. The three of you, on the beach." I looked at Jen who was grinning, nodding. A tear stood on Wendy's cheek. Afterwards I showed Mrs. Holt the nursery. I was proud of that room. In addition to the high wire bear I'd found a tumbling acrobat border and a series of Barnum & Bailey...