Alyssa Jewell

Biography

Alyssa Jewell edits poetry for Waxwing as well as Third Coast and coordinates the Poets in Print reading series at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2016, Witness, Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Journal, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is a PhD student at Western Michigan University.

See Work

POETRY / Fall 2022

Limitation

By Alyssa Jewell

A finger so tender 
the diminishing coneflower’s center shocks        
a needle

up through reaching skin

POETRY / Fall 2022

Window Blind

By Alyssa Jewell

The white slap of the moon after hail gone through
ivy to silver April’s first green blades: There I listened 

POETRY / Fall 2022

Grocery List for Bob & Gladys

By Alyssa Jewell

Bow to the peaches heavy and timeless, wrapped in sheets of cool.

POETRY / Fall 2022

Twice in Two Days: Neptune, Ohio

By Alyssa Jewell

and all its straight-razor backroads planted with plaster 
farmhouses bowing to January’s muddy expanse