Jen Schneider

Jen Schneider

Jen Schneider is a community college educator who lives, works, and writes in small spaces in and around Philadelphia. She served as the 2022 Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) Poet Laureate. She recommends Philly ASAP.

"Overheard by a Democrat at the RNC...," "A Polygraph...," and "A Series of Active Inquiries in the Wake of Apple's Delivery"

if the can, once opened,
can never again be sealed,
what happens when the nutrients
are more greedy than green

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"On Experimental Conditions / Cruel and Unusual Experiences," "Again," and "Cruel and (Not) Unusual Experiences"

twice
the man’s body is strapped to the gurney
 
twice
his last words are documented for eternity

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"On Good Friday 2023," "As Loneliness Spreads Like the Wildfires, I Wonder" and "An Abecedarian on the Iraq Invasion / Twenty Years Later, What Have We Learned"

Now, 20 years later, boots and scars remain.
Officers, official allegations. The
Oval Office, a space ___ miles from on the ground operations.
Orders incite disorder.

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"An Abecedarian for Election Days (Past, Present, and Future)" and "A Collection of Election-Themed Haiku / Gathered like Fall Leaves"

vote:  both noun and verb
building blocks in cotton socks
​a ___ canvas

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"100 Ways to Splice, Dice and Slice (Spend) One Hundred Classroom (Personal) Dollars" and "when grammar is nothing more than rules of destruction"

from the garden section – of a big-box. grab the goods, off the shelf. or a random lot – picked while the children should have been focused on homework or hopscotch, yet the service lines are monitored by bots.

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