...Jay Udall © 2014 Jay Udall 2014 Jay Udall Jesus Walks in Blue above Louisiana over the jails and prisons we build for our young dark-skinned men, two white gloves reach through a window, finger accordion for the dancing light-skinned crowd inside, inside the gloves...

...Jay Udall © 2014 Jay Udall 2014 Jay Udall Blessing of the Beasts Let it rise from the windowless houses in which chickens sit their entire brief lives in darkness, wing to wing, breasts bred so heavy they struggle to walk, stop trying. Let it lift them into...

... creative writing in the English department at the University of Michigan. Jay Udall’s work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Verse Daily, Cincinnati Review, and Spillway. His latest volume of poems, The Welcome Table (2009), won the New Mexico...