Jennifer Manthey is an MFA student at Hamline University in St Paul, MN. She has served as Assistant Poetry Editor for Water-Stone Review and as Associate Editor for Runestone Journal. Her work has appeared in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and RHINO.
A bigger boy, pimples like the ungentle world across his cheeks, pushes my 8-year-0ld as they get on the bus. I see it and I cannot pull my son back to our kitchen, where he stood just this morning in his socks, with the refrigerator open long, getting milk for his cereal. Or to… Read more →
After a mother at a friend’s birthday party lights her child’s candles at the exact minute he was born, and my adopted child asks me, “What time was I born?” There was the waxed and colorful dress she wore to meet you. Outside: the unrealized river, fantasy of jungle, whole economy of rain. There was notable heat, of course, humid… Read more →