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Excerpt of "a translation" (Summer, 2021) Closed Eye Open - Maya's Micros Edition 9

https://theclosedeyeopen.com/mayas-micros-ed-9/

Daffodils of Detroit, Sunshine (Spring, 2021) Hooligans Magazine. 

https://www.hooliganmag.com/spilledink2021/daffodils-of-detroit

Revitalization (Winter, 2021) The Knights Library. 

https://online.fliphtml5.com/pszqz/sajx/

Do you get nervous on planes? (April, 2020) Yes Poetry. 

https://www.yespoetry.com/news/jeni-de-la-o-remember-this

Rituals for the End of the World, Solution (Fall, 2020) Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. 

https://www.borderlands.org/current-issue-52

Thin Air, Conversational Spanish (Spring, 2020) Columbia Journal. 

http://columbiajournal.org/weird-babies-two-poems-by-jeni-de-la-o/

Hache and Cher Horowitz Split a Coney (Winter, 2020) Sugar House Review. 

https://www.sugarhousereview.com/purchase

2.0 (Fall, 2019) Ghost City Review. 

https://ghostcitypress.com/poetry-58/2019/11/23/jeni-de-la-o

Eight Stages of Someone Else's Grief (Fall, 2019) Glass Poetry. 

http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2019/september/delao-eight.html

Across this body, First Generation, The Wall (Spring, 2019) The Maynard. 

https://www.themaynard.org/Vol12No1/AcrossThisBody.php

 

Dying far from Home (Spring, 2019) muse / a journal (now Bird Coat Quarterly). 

https://www.museajournal.com/category/issue-nine/

 

Every Michigander is far and wee (Spring, 2019) Lockjaw Magazine. 

https://www.lockjawmagazine.com/vol6/delao/every-michigander/

 

Losing Touch (Spring, 2019) Tilde. 

https://issuu.com/thirtywestph/docs/tilde3_broken_pencil/40

 

Once (Spring, 2019) Tinderbox Poetry. 

https://tinderboxpoetry.com/once

 

--see me making café cubano (Spring, 2019) Lockjaw Magazine. 

https://www.lockjawmagazine.com/vol6/delao/see-me-making-cafe-cubano

 

The Weight of Lemons (Spring, 2019) Kissing Dynamite Poetry

https://www.kissingdynamitepoetry.com/issue-4.html

 

There is no hyphen between us and them (Spring, 2019) The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism. 

https://44bf41ed-9dc6-4e6f-a3cd-3efc42feaf84.filesusr.com/ugd/ff2d79_981ae81acf8e48d7b40a425efc98be3f.pdf

 

Hungry, Billions in Debt (Summer, 2019) Riggwelter Press. 

https://issuu.com/riggwelter/docs/issue_22/13

 

Dangerous (Winter, 2019) The Indianapolis Review. 

https://theindianapolisreview.com/dangerous/

 

Let love be a burning bush, prayer for my mother (Winter, 2019) Obra / Artifact. 

https://obraartifact.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/obraartifact_issue6_release1.pdf

 

The Last Supper (Winter, 2019) Rust & Moth. 

https://rustandmoth.com/work/the-last-supper/

 

After Angelitos Negros (Fall, 2018) Broadsided Press. 

https://broadsidedpress.org/our-authors/de-la-o-jeni/

 

Congress is defined as the act of ocming together (Fall, 2018) Five:2:One Magazine. 

http://five2onemagazine.com/jeni-de-la-o/

Juntos (Fall, 2018) Fifth Wednesday. 

https://twitter.com/jenidelao/status/1096857416115851265?s=20

Our love will stretch to cover this in time (Fall, 2018) Okay Donkey. 

https://okaydonkeymag.com/2018/11/14/our-love-will-stretch-to-cover-this-in-time-by-jeni-de-la-o/

 

as dawn breaks (Spring, 2018) The Emerson Review. 

https://issuu.com/emerson_review/docs/the_emerson_review_vol_47/49

 

Here are Beautiful Things (Spring, 2018) The Light Ekphrasis. 

https://thelightekphrastic.com/may-2018-issue-34/goodwin-de-la-o-may-2018/

 

One Million Peaches (Spring, 2018) Soliloquies Anthology #22, . 

https://issuu.com/soliloquiesanthology/docs/soliloquies_22.2/14

 

After a Hurricane (Summer, 2018) Really System. 

http://reallysystem.org/issues/nineteen/after_a_hurricane/

 

Etymology (Summer, 2018) SWWIM Everyday. 

https://www.swwim.org/blog/2018/8/22/tid7wqobggjgtsuksvx3qvvfkpx670

 

Loxahatchee Road Prison, Morning Shift, Ashes of Life rn (Summer, 2018) Rigorous Magazine. 

https://www.rigorous-mag.com/v2i3/jeni-de-la-o.html

 

The things we touch (Summer, 2018) The Acentos Review. 

https://www.acentosreview.com/august2018/jeni-de-la-o.html

 

for bad dreams (Summer , 2018) Gigantic Sequins. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ERsljBNxnh1Hw42Nm4olb0xpiQk60Xh0/view?usp=sharing

 

Paraiso / Bembe (Winter, 2018) Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora.  https://casit.illinoisstate.edu/obsidian/index.php/obsidian/article/view/371

 

Scurry Scarab Beatle Poets (Winter, 2018) Eastern Iowa Review. 

http://www.portyonderpress.com/jeni-de-la-o---beetle-poets.html?fbclid=IwAR3DOw7LHTmo4-53YpEZRoBRCpu8vx86NI25svXNqn8uoERnf9cViK-0-iA

 

Viandero, Home (Winter, 2018) Storyscape Journal. 

http://storyscapejournal.com/Issue19/viandero-by-jeni-de-la-o.html

 

You will lose your country (Winter, 2018) Constellate Journal. 

https://constellatemagazine.com/2018/12/21/you-will-lose-your-country-she-shouted-in-the-canned-goods-aisle-jeni-de-la-o/

 

Fango 1-5 (Fall, 2017) Rigorous Magazine. 

https://www.rigorous-mag.com/v1i4/jeni-de-la-o.html

 

Pareo (Spring, 2017) York Literary Review. 

https://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/yorkliteraryreview/files/2017/05/2017-YLR-for-download.pdf

The Women who Loved Abuelo (issue 24) (Winter, 2017) Thin Air Magazine.

 https://thinair.submittable.com/submit/34042/past-issue-1-copy

Selected Poems
Academic Engagement

Reading: Mercy Street (2021)

Workshop: Nuts and Bolts: MS Word and Excel for Writers- The Estuary Collective (2021)

Workshop: Striking Illumination: Erasure as Excavation - Sundress Academy for the Arts (2021)

Workshop: Super|REAL: Surrealist Editing - Luminarie Poets Workshop Series (2021)

Craft Series: Why It Works: A conversation from Both Sides of the Poem – The Estuary Collective (2021)

Reading: A night at the movies, The Estuary Collective, (2021)

Reading: Performance Anxiety (2020)

Reading: Rigorous x Bunker, (2020)

Reading: Borderlands Issue 52 Launch, Malvern Books (2020)

Reading: Brain Candy (2019)

Reading: East Side Reading Series (2019)

Communty Engagement

Panelist: Institute for Non Profit News, panel discussion: Growing Public Support for News, 2021

Panelist: Art is Power! Equity Summit on behalf of City of Detroit, 2021

Panelist: Contemporary Landscape of Women in Poetry, 1455 Summer Lit Fest, 2021

Performer: Diverse Voices Conference, Oakland University, 2021

Coordinator of Arts Programing for Initiative to Eradicate Racism, OU-SEHS 2021

#TWEETSPEAKLIVE technical support, Spring 2020

Panelist: The Myth of Living in a Post-Racial Society (2019), Oakland University

Speaker: Diverse Voices Conference (2019), Oakland University

Member, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee, School of Education 2019-

Organizer: Relato:OU, Bilingual Storytelling Night, Oakland University 2018

Accepted Proposal: Pop Culture in/as Speculative Resistance, Wayne State 2018

Organizer: Relato:UM, for CodeSwitch Day, University of Michigan 2018

Organizer: Relato:OU, Bilingual Storytelling Night, 2018

Women's Employee Resource Group Planning Committee, Oakland University, 2017-2018

NEPRIS Virtual Lecturer, 2017-Present

Reseach Interests
  • Visual and concrete poetry

  • Object books

  • Place and placemaking

  • Gestural movements in text

  • Augmented hard bound / softbound books

  • Community generated poetry

  • Cronicas

  • Language and language acquisition

  • Assimilation

  • Hurricanes and South Florida, el exilio

  • Fatphobia and cultural gatekeeping

  • Body dysmorphia as a function of colonialism

  • Blackness in Latindidad

  • Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Caribbean

  • Shifting the framework for analysis from eurocentric models to other cultural frameworks - Caribbean 

  • Generative publishing and submission model

Workshop: Seeing the Stanza, Brittany Rogers, 2021

Workshop Poetics of Intimacy, Natasha Oladokun, Winter 2021

Workshop: Prose poems with Dani Rose, Knights Library, 2021

Workshop: Loss of Language with Belinda Munoz, 2021

Workshop: Latinx Grant Writing, 2021

Conference: Barrelhouse Conference, Conversations, and Connections, 2021

Workshop: Aubades with Itiola Jones, Luminarie Poetry Workshop Series, 2021

Workshop: Flowers in a Field of Terror, Faylita Hicks, Fall 2020

Residency: Winter Tangerine Summer Workshop 2019

Workshop: Sharpened Vision, Douglas Kearney / Cal Tech Arts 2018

Education
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