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Justin Jannise

How to Be Better by Being Worse

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    As part of Writers in the Schools, he has led classrooms at Field Elementary School, the High School for Law and Justice, and M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital. He is the recipient of both the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize and the Inprint Verlaine Prize in Poetry. In 2019, his poems appeared in both Best New Poets and Best of the Net, and Copper Nickel nominated his poem “Leather Jacket” for a Pushcart Prize. His poem “Flamingosexual” won the 2020 Pinch Literary Award. His writing has also appeared—or is forthcoming—in Hobart, Houston Chronicle, Lana Turner, New Ohio Review, Out, Palette Poetry, The Southeast Review, Split Lip Magazine, and Yale Review.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    He frequently teaches workshops for Inprint, Grackle & Grackle, and Writespace.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Now finishing his Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston, Justin served a two-year term as Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    The University of Iowa awarded him a Teaching-Writing Fellowship in 2013 and named him the Provost’s Visiting Writer in Poetry in 2014.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    He worked as a freelance pop culture writer in New York City before moving to Iowa to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    he attended Yale University, where he won the 2009 Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for Poetry
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    I must have heard the engine

    crank, the break

    release and then?
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    In the intervening years, I’ve read about

    battered women who come to see all men

    as accomplices in their abuse.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    It might’ve been the first time I ever hated her,

    as if she were my child, sucking her thumb

    instead of getting us through

    the moment with less pain.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    a man so tall and gentle I think I believed

    he was religion itself.
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