About
Poetry
Rae Hoffman Jager is a poet and essayist. She is the author of Laws of Leaving (Fernwood 26’) and American Bitch (22’ Kelsay Books). Rae's poetry and essays have appeared in a wide variety of online and print magazines: Atticus, Contrary, The Moth, Honey Lit, Louisville Courier Journal—to name a few. She has been pushcart nominated across multiple genres and enjoys blurring between the lines of poetry and nonfiction. Rae holds a BA from Warren Wilson College and an MFA from Wichita State University. All of her works have been written on what Virginia Woolf might consider “stolen time” between the constraint of motherhood, work, and surviving in late-stage capitalism.
“There’s nothing I can say about coal barges
and their long marriage to rivers
that hasn’t already been said,
like water is beautiful and necessary
and every barge is a woman floating
face down in a steel dress, carrying on
her back whatever people leave there.”
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