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*Winner of the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize*
“Bailey touts a smoldering command of her slice of the world, and her astute ability to recreate all the delightful nuances of that world is fully at work in this winning book.”
—PATRICIA SMITH.
*Out now from the* *University of Arkansas Press*!

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The Strange, The Surprising, and the Slightly Off-Center: A Rumpus Conversation with J. Bailey Hutchinson @ The Rumpus

Artist profile @ the National Endowment for the Arts

Writing Poetry “You Can Chew On” in Gut @ KUAF

POETRY

“The Shadow of the Ruins Looms above, Filling You with Determination,” “Playfully Crinkling through the Leaves Fills You with Determination,” & “Knowing the Mouse Might One Day Leave Its Hole and Get the Cheese…It Fills You with Determination,” Bruiser Mag

“Sometimes I Am Too Impatient for Poetry and Also for Sex,” Grist

“Sonnet for Shenron, Eternal Dragon of Earth,” “Sonnet for Maleficent, the Horned Sorceress,” & “Sonnet for Haku, the Kohaku River Spirit,” Waxwing Issue XXIV

“Lineage,” Muzzle Magazine 27

”Someone Told Me This Was the ‘Gloomiest January on Record,’ and I’m Curious about the Metrics for That,” Peach Mag Season 4 Yearbook

“Eat,” Ninth Letter 17.2

“I Have Never Had to Love Someone Who Beat Me,” “Real Good Meat Eater,” Beloit 69.2

“7 PM (Extended): Animal Crossing New Leaf,” “J. Bailey Hutchinson Moves 658.8 Miles North and Tries to Make It Count,” & “Butterflies Are More Metal Than Moths,” Peach Mag

"Poem Written as Barter for $366.12 in Outstanding Bills," BOAAT Summer 2019

"J. Bailey Hutchinson Takes Plan B in Marseille," "Ponytail Ode," & "Fox Song," The Boiler 29

"My Dad Has Sleep Apnea and Keeps a Loaded Gun on His Nightstand," Talking Book Press

"Learning to Swim in the Mississippi," Salamander 47

"Carne e Spirito," New South 12.1 (winner of the 2018 New South Writing Contest)

"J. Bailey Hutchinson Prays to the River," "Ouroboros as Eight-Year-Old," "Dog Not Deer," & "Beautiful Objects Small," Wyvern Lit Haunted III

"Things Dying & Where/Steve Hutchinson, Eagan, MN," & "The Minnesota State Fair’s Miracle of Birth Center, sponsored by Subaru," Beloit 68.2

"Became My Body, Too," Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry Awards 40 (finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry)

"Magical Girl," & "The Great Saiyagirl," Freezeray Journal 14

"Cherry Blossom Impact," Bear Review 4.1

“Midsouth,” & “Things Dying and Where/No-name Cat, Eads, TN,” LIT Magazine 31