ALT photo of the city of los angeles with palm trees and a red sky

ALT So, while I am here, I would like to look at every flower. & every painting of a flower, every flower in a photograph. Every amateur’s crappy gorgeous sappy good drawing of a flower. Every philosopher’s completely uncomplicated memory of a flower, yep that one flower that was just a halfway decent dandelion or something, but the sudden recollection of it compels even the most fervent Hegelian to say Bye bye Hegel, see you never! & then a little later, chat him up soul to soul in the shimmery after if ever there was one, & I would like to believe there is a way to feel every flower delicately or furiously placed on my grave, I’d like that, & hope it tickles, though maybe I would like to be ash, guess I haven’t decided that. It’s hard to decide while I’m here & not there in that (let’s hope) still distant future in which I am each & every breath gone, each & every floral outfit done. Every evening of saying Hello lilies to the lilies on my desk, thinking they might help with a line

ALT when they were even more useless than my mind but in a mighty, godly, gobsmacked way. But where does it go, the mind & every time it said I love you & “you” meant lilies, sunflowers, lilies, hydrangeas, the pinkest peonies, tallest tulips, where do they go, every utterance, each utterly floored moment of where will I go, my fervent looking & Hegelian sniffing & this I who would like to be scandalized at least 3,000 more times by the thought that I’m looking at genitalia, pretty smelly genitalia, but whether I am I ever again, let the future be stinking full of flowers, flowerful days flowerous nights flowers just flowering all over all futurey with their very own awful email system, & yet they’re good ol’ fashioned fragrant, & yep each petal’s going mega freaky marvelous, unfurling from every last opening left by my gloriously long forgotten life.

ALT Jennifer has long blond hair and is standing in front of a red wall that has NHPR on it in black lettering

ALT A contract agreement with the book title Identifying the Pathogen highlighted

ALT Jennifer in a long green coat with Chen Chen in pink sneakers.

ALT Smiling selfie of Jennifer with Jericho Brown and Paige Ackerson-Kiely.

ALT Thurs. 2/8/24 

[off-site] A very gay literary happy hour at Uptown Lounge 5:00-7:00pm CST [off-site] Hooligan Mag and Cobra Milk reading at Milwaukee Delicatessen Company 7:30pm CST
 Fri. 2/9/24 
Panel: Say Gay Today: Writing in the Backward Climate of Anti-LGBTQ Legislation 12:10pm - 1:25pm CST Location: Room 2103C, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level Reading: Generations: A Reading & Conversation Sponsored by Blue Flower Arts & The Asian American Writers’ Workshop 1:45pm - 3:00pm CST Location: Grand Ballroom A, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2

ALT Sat. 2/10/14 Panel: Poets Learn to Pitch (& other practical tips for writing and publishing prose) 1:45pm - 3:00pm CST Location: Room 2503AB, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2 [off-site] Gulf Coast / Bat City Review / The Texas Review / Texas Review Press reading at The Stray Cat 7:00-9:00pm CST