Chapbooks
Fever (Model Press, 2021) (very large PDF)
The Women in Visual Poetry: the Bechdel Test (Essay Press, 2015) (issuu)
Trauma Mouth (dusie, 2015) (PDF)
Excerpts from The Daybooks
The following excerpts from The Daybooks have been published in periodicals.
BOOKS
The Daybooks. Insert Press, forthcoming in four parts.
The Daybooks: Winter. Forthcoming.
The Daybooks: Spring. Forthcoming.
The Daybooks: Summer. Forthcoming.
The Daybooks: Fall. Forthcoming.
How to Know the Flowers. Veliz Books, 2019.
Organic Furniture Cellar: Works on Paper 2002-2004. Outside Voices, 2006. (out of print)
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
Dream House (semifinalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, 2015)
Glazed Glitter (semifinalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Poetry Prize, 2017)
SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS
Report from the Smith Society, Vol 1. No. 1. Ed. rob mclennan. above/ground press, 2023. A compendium of critical and creative responses to my work.
Arrieu-King, Cynthia. “Scientific, Healing Magic: How To Know The Flowers by Jessica Smith,” The Rumpus, 2020.
Featured in Poets House’s Poetry Showcase 2019.
Jacobs-Beck, Kimberly. Crab Creek Review (print), 2019.
Of The Lover is Absent (chapbook), Subterranean Blue Poetry, 2017.
Russo, Linda. “Listening-Being: Some unnamed species of porous poems,” Jacket2, 2015.
Tucker, Aaron. “Review by Aaron Tucker.” Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, 2014.
Bloomberg-Rissman, John. ZEN. Galatea Resurrects, 2014.
Foursquare Magazine. “The Indie Innovators.” Poets & Writers, 2010.
Loydell, Rupert. “The Ones That Didn’t Get Away.” Stride, 2007.
Baxt, Ellen. “Organic Furniture Cellar by Jessica Smith.” Boog City, 2006.
beaulieu, derek. “Organic Furniture Cellar by Jessica Smith.” Matrix, 2006.
Gardner, Susana. “Organic Furniture Cellar by Jessica Smith” Galatea Resurrects, 2006.
Fama, Steven. BIRD-BOOK. Galatea Resurrects, 2006
Lowinger, Aaron. “Organic Furniture Cellar.” House Press Newsletter, 2006.
McSweeney, Joyelle. “Organic Furniture Cellar: Works on Paper 2002-2004.” The Constant Critic (FENCE), 2006.
Peverett, Michael. “Jessica Smith, Organic Furniture Cellar.” Intercapillary Space, 2006.
Silliman, Ron. “I respond positively to ambitious work.” Silliman’s Blog, 2006.
CHAPBOOKS
ex libris, Sunnyoutside Press, forthcoming.
Fever, Model Press, 2021.
Lion’s Den, above/ground press, 2019.
The Lover is Absent. above/ground press, 2017. Featuring poems from The Daybooks.
Poems from The Daybooks. Mondo Bummer, 2015. Featuring poems from The Daybooks.
The Women in Visual Poetry: the Bechdel Test. Essay Press, 2015.
Trauma Mouth. Dusie, 2015. Featuring poems from The Daybooks.
Cicada Radio. Phafours Press, 2014.
Relation. Reprinted by The Chapbook Vol. 2, 2013.
mnemotechnics. above/ground press, 2013. Featuring poems from Life-List.
What the Fortune-Teller Said. a+bend/Dusie, 2009; reprinted as “The Fortune Teller” in The Chapbook Journal (Issue 2, October 2013). Featuring poems from The Ring Cycle (formerly Dream House)
butterflies. Big Game Books, 2006. Digital version published by The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, 2013.
The Plasticity of Poetry. No Press, 2006. Featuring material from Organic Furniture Cellar.
Telling Time. No Press, 2006. Featuring poems from Organic Furniture Cellar.
Shifting Landscapes. above/ground press, 2006. Featuring poems from Organic Furniture Cellar.
bird-book. Reprinted by House Press (2005) and digital version published by Detumescence Press (2006). Featuring poems from Life-List.
CHAPBOOKS: ARTISTS’ BOOKS
Descriptions of many of these self-published artists’ editions can be found in “Both, Neither, Between, Many: Jessica Smith’s Works with Paper,” by Jonathan Skinner, in Report from the Smith Society, Vol 1. No. 1. Ed. rob mclennan. above/ground press, 2023.
Wisteria, 2025. Self-published artists’ book, 3×3” snake-fold book, polymer press and letterpress printed on hand-marbled paper housed in glassine envelope.
Sommarhuset, 2005. Self-published art and poetry assemblage housed in A2 envelope.
ruthless grip, 2005. Self-published art and poetry assemblage housed in miniature takeout container.
blueberries. Handmade with paper with floral inclusions; sponsored by a Publication Grant from the McNulty Chair at the University at Buffalo, 2004.
bird-book. Handmade, origami paper in vellum envelope. First edition sponsored by a Special Project Grant from the Honors Program at the University at Buffalo, 2001. Reprinted by House Press (2005) and digital version published by Detumescence Press (2006). Featuring poems from Life-List.
Problemattica. Handmade, 2001.
Relation. Handmade, 2001. Reprinted by The Chapbook Vol. 2, 2013.
COLLABORATIONS
Ursularia. An opera by Opera Cabal (Majel Connery & Nicholas DeMaison), 2007.
musicartmovement. bird-book poems used as scores for music and dance, with Brett Masteller, composer, and Chelsea Warren, choreographer, 2003.
Elevator Postcard Project. Elevator 4: The Grid Project (words for mobile), with Amy Stalling, artist, 2003.
Elevator Postcard Project. Elevator 3: The Postcard Project, “Westward,” with Isabelle Pelissier, artist, 2001.
Transient Views. excerpts from bird-book (film), with Terry Cuddy, filmmaker, 2001.
VISUAL POETRY EXHIBITS
July 4-6, 2025: Newport, Oregon: visual poetry at Postcards To The Future. Coastal Arts Guild. Don and Ann Davis Park.
April 13-20 2019: New Orleans, LA: Verbicovisual: An International Visual Poetry Exhibition. Barrister’s Gallery, St. Claude.
January 19 – April 15, 2018: New Haven, CT: collaborative art/poetry books from the ELEVATOR Project books (The Postcard Project and The Grid Project) at “The Art of Collaboration” at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library.
January 12 – February 25, 2016: New York, NY: Pages from Glazed Glitter (erased text) and Reading the Illegible (handwritten/asemic text) in conjunction with “Formation” at Bernarducci Meisel Gallery. See also Poets and Artists magazine Issue 80.
April 1-30 2014: Cobourg, ON: The Human Bean, “Textual Artivity”: “Milton’s Transcriptionist” and “Memory of Reading Virginia Woolf in Jamaica.”
July 16 – Sept 3, 2010: Buffalo, NY: Foursquare magazine, “Wide Margins: An Exhibition of ‘Zines from the Sublime to the Silly”: Western New York Book Arts Center.
March 2009: Westchester and Providence, RI: Foursquare magazine, Handmade/Homemade exhibit
March 4-8, 2009: Brussels, Belgium: “Veil,” “infusoria: an exhibition of visual poetry by women from three continents”: Maison des Cultures.
April 25, 2008: Ghent, Belgium: “tiny wonderrooms of love,” zaoem festival.
October 6, 2002: “Veil,” installation for Anomaly magazine release reading with Lorraine Graham and Tom Orange: Bridge Street Books, Washington, D.C.
September 13, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Reading: Big Orbit Soundlab.
February 26, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Silent Reading: Rust Belt Books
February 7, 2002: Buffalo, NY: bird-book poems featured in Transient Views, panel discussion; Rust Belt Books.
November 30, 2001: Buffalo, NY: objets de poésie, name Poetry Reading & Bazaar; Rust Belt Books.
April 5, 2001: Buffalo, NY: of installation poetry, Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize Awards Ceremony, Poetry/Rare Books Library, University at Buffalo.
ANTHOLOGIES
“31 October 2002 / Buffalo” (from The Daybooks). In Maples, K. N. (Ed.), I Witness: An Anthology of Documentary Poems. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming.
“Cortland,” In Klane, Matthew (Ed.), A Sing Economy, Albany, NY: Flim Forum Press, 2008)
PERIODICALS
SAGINAW, ten poems from The Daybooks (August 2025)
8Poems, an excerpt from The Daybooks (Vol. 3 No. 1, July 2020)
Can We Have Our Ball Back? excerpts from The Daybooks (May 2020)
Bear Review, excerpts from The Daybooks (May 2020)
Poets.org, “Daybooks 3 May 2013” (excerpt from The Daybooks) (2019)
Ethel Zine, an excerpt from Reading the Illegible (Issue 4, 2019)
Dilettante Army, “Approach” (Spring 2019)
Guest, guest edited by Susana Gardner, excerpts from The Daybooks (2019)
Glass Poetry, an excerpt from The Daybooks (Special Feature: 100,000 Poets for Change—Birmingham 2018)
8Poems, an excerpt from The Daybooks (Vol. 1 No. 1, July 2018)
Dream Pop Journal, excerpts from Reading the Illegible (Issue 3, 2018)
Open Letters Monthly, from The Daybooks, “5 June 2016” (2017)
Poets and Artists, excerpts from Glazed Glitter and Reading the Illegible (Issue 80, 2017)
Dusie Advent Calendar, from The Daybooks, “4 November 2016” (2016)
Opon, from The Daybooks, “17 November 2002,” “4 December 2014,” “4 November 2005,” “7 November 2009,” “3 December 2004,” “14 September 2007,” “25 December 2007,” “21 October 2013” (Issue 4, 2015)
Pine Hills Review, from The Daybooks, “17 June 2007” (2015)
MiPoesias, from The Daybooks, “29 May 2012,” “11 December 2009” (Spring 2015)
The Ladowich Review, “The Potter,” “The Skull Bones,” “The Ceramics,” “The Ceramics,” “The Lines” (Issue 1, 2015)
Touch the Donkey, from The Daybooks, “23 June 2009,” “27 June 2003,” “28 July 2009,” “28 September 2003,” “19 November 2005” (Issue 4, 2015)
Drunken Boat, from The Daybooks, “30 March 2005,” “6 May 2011,” “31 October 2002” (Issue 20, 2014)
Delirious Hem, from The Daybooks, “13 December 2006” (December 2014)
Open Letters Monthly, from The Daybooks, “22 October 2013” (December 2014)
Entropy, from The Daybooks, “31 January 2009,” “10 March 2010,” “2 April 2005,” “21 June 2005,” “29 September 2013,” “12 October 2002,” “20 November 2007” (November 2014)
Bling that Sings, from The Daybooks, “2 March 2004,” “10 April 2014” (September 2014)
The Volta, “811.6” (August 2014)
Boston Poetry Magazine, “30 January 2014” (July 2014)
Zigest, “from The Daybooks / 7 July 2005 / Stockholm” (May 2014)
Newport Life, “from The Daybooks / 8 June 2009 / Buffalo” (April 2014)
The Rumpus, “from The Daybooks / 11 February 2004 / Buffalo” (April 2014)
The Brooklyn Rail, “Little Daughter, “Bronzino,” “Saskia” (March 2014)
17 seconds, “The Dead,” “The Double-Spout,” “The Instruments,” “Resin,” “The Geoglyphs,” “The Loom,” and “Riddles in the Sand” (Winter 2014)
La Vague Journal, three poems from “Exact Resemblance” (Issue 2, February 2014)
Cordite Poetry Review, “Gondwanaland” (Issue 44, December 2013)
Delirious Hem Advent Calendar, “Saskia, Rembrandt (1636)” (December 2013)
The Emerald Tablet, “chrysopoetics” (December 2013)
The Volta (Evening May Come), “alectryomancy” (Issue 33, September 2013)
aesthetix, “800” (Issue 6, 2013)
Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, “undercurrents,” “rwb,” “psychotherapy,” “piece for sky,” and “robins” (July 2013)
N/A Literary Journal, “magazine,” “beat the air,” “Canada geese,” “mourning” (Issue 1, 2013)
Open Letters Monthly, “wild swans” (July 2013)
Word for/Word, “In Love” (vol. 21, 2013)
Futurepoem Blog, response to Noah Eli Gordon’s The Source (2012)
Kadar Koli, poems (Buffalo 2010)
The Buffalo News, excerpts from What the Fortune-Teller Said (Buffalo 2010)
Area Sneaks, “Mod Diary” and interview (Los Angeles 2009)
speechless, “Mod Diary” (Calgary 2008)
Apocryphaltext, “Wake,” (Montevallo, AL 2008)
Cannibal, “Other Testimony of Summer Nights” (NYC 2008)
knives out, “dissent – descent” (Toronto 2008)
Phoebe, “Duras” (WDC 2008)
The Other Herald, “Sidewalk” (Buffalo 2008)
Big Game Review, “Mars” (WDC 2007)
WOMB, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (“a summer wish”) (San Diego 2007)
FOURSQUARE, “Wake” (Charlottesville 2007)
Rock Heals, “Sidewalk” and “Poetry is Like Music” (Baltimore 2007)
Zinhar, “Manifest” (in Turkish translation, Istanbul 2007)
Small Press Traffic, interview (San Francisco 2006)
small town, poems (San Francisco 2006)
Filling Station, excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (Calgary 2005)
American Weddings, excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 1, Boston 2004)
Drill, excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 4, South Bend 2004)
OEI, untranslatable excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar and article, “The Plasticity of Poetry,” a variation on the Organic Furniture Cellar preface (No. 18/19/20/21, Stockholm 2004)
rout/e, “legend” or “mapmaking” excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (Toronto 2004)
vortex, Buffalo broadsides by William Sylvester, excerpts from blueberries (Buffalo 2004)
Antennae, “Corpse of Time” (No. 4, Chicago 2003)
Anomaly, “evolocution” excerpts (No. 1, D.C. 2002)
dANDelion, “canal series” excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 28 vol. 2, Calgary 2002)
Ecopoetics, “Common Blues” excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 2, Buffalo 2002)
Ferrum Wheel, “Leave No Trace” (No. 4, Buffalo 2002); “Buffalo Cycle” (No. 3, Buffalo 2002); “poem for regeneration” (No. 2, Buffalo 2001); “japanese beetle” from bird-book (No. 1, Buffalo 2001)
ixnay, “das lied von der erde,” “hero n,” and “japanese beetle,” from bird-book (No. 7, Philadelphia 2002)
Outlet (7) Heroines, “Cherries” (San Francisco 2001)
xtant one 09.01, “lov r” (No. 1, North Carolina 2001)
Queen Street Quarterly, “Jemison Trail” and “Morris Trail” from Organic Furniture Cellar (Vol. 7, No. 1; 2004); excerpts from bird-book (Vol. 5, No. 3; 2002); “for Mariama Bâ” (Vol. 4, No. 4; 2001) (Toronto)
name, “found poem” (No. 8/9, 2004), “(>)” (No. 7, 2003), excerpts from Organic Furniture Cellar (No. 6, 2002), excerpts from Evolocution and “oscilli” from bird-book (No. 4/5, 2002); “Relation/I-I,” “Relation/I-III,” and “Cherries” (No. 3, 2001) (Buffalo)
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
October 11, 2025: Tuscaloosa, AL; Pure Products at Kentuck Festival of the Arts.
October 20, 2024: Tuscaloosa, AL; Pure Products at Kentuck Festival of the Arts.
March 10, 2023: Seattle, WA; Veliz Books AWP Off-site Reading, MadArt Studio.
July 30, 2022: Oxford, OH; Miami University, Alumni Reading.
May 15, 2022: Montreal, QC; ACCUTE/SpokenWeb Poetry Reading.
April 9, 2020: Birmingham, AL: Magic City Poetry Festival. (Participation canceled due to COVID-19.)
March 4, 2020: San Antonio, TX: Festival of Language reading (Participation canceled due to COVID-19.)
March 5, 2020: San Antonio, TX: Chax/Tinfish/Eoagh AWP off-site reading (Participation canceled due to COVID-19.)
March 6, 2020: San Antonio, TX: Veliz Books/co.im.press AWP off-site reading (Participation canceled due to COVID-19.)
November 1, 2019: Online. A Brief Chat podcast (abriefchat.com).
July 29, 2019: Oxford, OH: Miami University, Final Project Reading
August 27, 2019: Fort Thomas, KY: Harlan Hubbard Studio
April 20, 2019: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival
March 13, 2019: March 13, 2019: Brooklyn, NY; Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7pm
February 2, 2019: Birmingham, AL; DISCO. How to Know the Flowers Launch Party, 7pm
September 27, 2018: Birmingham, AL; Revelator Coffee; 100 Thousand Poets for Change
June 29, 2018: Birmingham, AL; ArtTown.
May 5, 2018: Philadelphia, PA; Brickbat Books. Hugely Popular series
April 20, 2018: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival. Coven Press Reading
January 16, 2018: Oxford, OH: Miami University MFA Reading
August 1, 2017: Oxford, OH: Miami University MFA Reading
April 22, 2017: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival. Coven Press Reading
April 22, 2017: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival. Chax Press Reading
March 25, 2017: Birmingham, AL; Sister City Presents—She Persisted: Spoken Word Artist Showcase
February 10, 2017: Washington, D.C.; Chax/Kelsey St. Offsite AWP, Busboys & Poets
February 9, 2017: Washington, D.C.; Coven Press Offsite AWP, Songbyrd Cafe
January 18, 2017: Norman, OK; Mark Allen Everett Poetry Reading Series
December 10, 2016: Brooklyn, NY; Berl’s Poetry Shop, Tiny Talks Series
September 24, 2016: Birmingham, AL; The 6th Annual 100 Thousand Poets for Change.
April 16, 2016: New Orleans, LA; New Orleans Poetry Festival
April 1, 2016: L.A., CA; Ahsahta/Chax Press AWP Conference off-site reading at Book Show
November 15, 2015: New Orleans, LA
October 28, 2015: New Haven, CT; Yale class visit
October 27, 2015: New Britain, CT; Central Connecticut State University class visit
October 25, 2015: Brooklyn, NY; Unnameable Books with Coven Press as part of the d.a. levy lives series
October 23, 2015: Brooklyn, NY; Berl’s Poetry Shop
October 10, 2015: L.A., CA; Open Press
September 13, 2015: Knoxville, TN; Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) Reading Series
April 9, 2015: Minneapolis, MN; Lavender Ink/Dialogos/Chax Press reading at AWP at Segue Cafe
April 13, 2015: Birmingham, AL; Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series
April 26, 2015: Birmingham, AL; National Poetry Month reading at Emmet O’Neal Library
May 23, 2015: Tuscaloosa, AL; Sacred Grove Reading Series
October 12, 2014: Washington, D.C.; Arts & Crafts Beer Festival
October 11, 2013: Oxford, MS: Bozarts Gallery (Trobar Ric Reading Series)
July 13, 2013: Ottawa, ON: The Carleton Tavern (The Factory Reading Series)
April 19, 2012: Atlanta, GA: Emory University (What’s New in Poetry? Series)
March 24, 2012: Buffalo, NY: Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Buffalo Small Press Book Fair)
March 27, 2010: Buffalo, NY: Sugar City (Buffalo Small Press Book Fair)
January 24, 2010: NY, NY: Zinc Bar
October 21, 2009: Buffalo, NY: Buffalo State College (Rooftop Poetry Club)
October 16, 2009: Lowell, MA (Mass Poetry Festival)
August 14, 2009: Buffalo, NY: Sugar City
July 10, 2009: Buffalo, NY: House reading (Habenicht Press)
May 19, 2009: NY, NY: ACA Galleries (d.a. levy lives series/dusie press)
March 20, 2009: Buffalo, NY: Sugar City (flim forum press)
February 27, 2009: NY, NY: St. Mark’s Poetry Project (A Sing Economy anthology release)
December 14, 2008: Buffalo, NY: Rust Belt Books
October 25, 2008: LA, CA; REDCAT Untitled: Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing
May 17, 2008: Baltimore, MD: (i.e. reading series)
April 25, 2008: Brooklyn, NY: Stain Bar (Local-National Poetry Month)
December 9, 2007: Brooklyn, NY: Unnameable Books
November 4, 2007: Asheville, NC: wordplay on WPVM hosted by Jeff Davis
October 2, 2007: Durham, NC: House reading (minor american reading series)
June 17, 2007: NY, NY: Zinc Bar
March 30, 2007: Buffalo, NY: Electric City Spectacular
March 28, 2007: Oxford, OH: Miami University
November 18, 2006: Toronto, ON: Test Reading Series
January 27, 2006: WDC: 3Word Productions House Concert
January 21, 2006: Brooklyn, NY: BookCourt
January 20, 2006: Baltimore, MD: i.e. reading series
December 29, 2005: WDC: DCAC (DC Poets MLA Multi-Poet Extravaganza)
November 12, 2005: WDC: Washington Printmakers Gallery (Ruthless Grip series)
September 13, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Reading: Big Orbit Soundlab.
February 26, 2002: Buffalo, NY: visual poetry, name Silent Reading: Rust Belt Books
February 7, 2002: Buffalo, NY: Rust Belt Books.
November 30, 2001: Buffalo, NY: name Poetry Reading & Bazaar; Rust Belt Books.
April 5, 2001: Buffalo, NY: Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize Awards Ceremony, Poetry/Rare Books Library, University at Buffalo.
RECOGNITION
Pushcart Prize Nominations for “3 August 2009 / Buffalo” and “11 August 2005 / Stockholm” by SAGINAW, 2025
Semifinalist, Nightboat Poetry Prize, 2020. (The Daybooks)
American Book Award nomination, 2019. (How to Know the Flowers)
LAMBDA Award nomination, 2019. (How to Know the Flowers)
Pushcart Prize Nomination (How to Know the Flowers) by Veliz Books, 2019.
Pushcart Prize nomination, for “Give me my flowers” and “10 June 2017” from How to Know the Flowers, 2019.
First Prize, Academy of American Poets Prize, Miami University, 2019.
Finalist, Veliz Books, 2018. (How to Know the Flowers)
Finalist, Nightboat Poetry Prize, 2017. (How to Know the Flowers)
Finalist, Sundress Publications Book Prize, 2017. (How to Know the Flowers)
Semifinalist, Tarpaulin Sky Poetry Prize, 2017. (Glazed Glitter)
Pushcart Prize nomination, for “30 January 2014” (The Daybooks) Boston Poetry Magazine 2014.
Semifinalist, Tarpaulin Sky Poetry Prize, 2015. (Dream House)
Finalist, BOAAT Chapbook Competition, 2014 (Forms of Trust)
Finalist, Nightboat Poetry Prize, 2012. (Life-List)
First Prize, Academy of American Poets Prize, University at Buffalo, 2004.
First Prize, Academy of American Poets Prize, University at Buffalo, 2002.
First Prize, Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize, University at Buffalo, 2001.
University at Buffalo Honors Program Special Project Grant, 2001.