3 poems by Jessica Lee McMillan

Jessica Lee McMillan responded to our invitation to poets, on the occasion of our twelfth volume, to use 12 in some way in their composition process.

The 12-word“Even in Midnight” was created from haiku by Yamazaki So-kan and Arakida Moritake as translated by William George Aston in A History of Japanese Literature (1899). Please click here to read.

A blackout of a page from  A Daughter of the Morning by Zona Gale (1917) became the basis for the 12-line “Lessening Days.” Please click here to read.

And a blackout of two pages from J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Wendy (1911) became the basis for the 12-line “The Star-Glass.” Please click here to read.