Jordan Karnes is a writer, poet, and teacher who chairs the creative writing department at Oakland School for the Arts.
They’re the author of It Hasn’t Stopped Being California Here and More Silver Than Gold.
They also run an April poetry mailer: Congratulations, It’s April.
Essays
Imagining the Unimaginable: Optimism, Cheer, and the Fight for Black Lives → The Believer
Optimism → The Cut podcast with Avery Trufelman (contributor)
Distancing #51: Emergency Ward → The Believer
Unrequited Rivals → New Life Quarterly
Breaking Down a Body: Mythology, Sex-testing, & Bad Design → New Life Quarterly
Living in Your Own Private Nowhere Place → New Life Quarterly
Opposing Energies → New Life Quarterly
The Ficus Among Us: The Life & Death of San Francisco’s Street Trees → Place Talks @ The Prelinger Library
Poetry
Tunitas → The Portable Boog Reader Pt II: An Anthology of New York & San Francisco Poetry
Appellation → Eleven Eleven Journal, Issue 19
Indian Summer → Explosion Proof, Issue 3
2nd Arrondissement → Transmission Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1
18th Arrondissement → Transmission Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1