​PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING POETRY
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"Touch" and "Sweet Life" The First Six Months SISPS Anthology 2020
"Lordy," "Dog-Ruby" and "Three Sweet Leaves" The Comstock Review 2019
"What to Eat When You Will Not Eat the Doe's Heart" Gingerbread House 2018
"My Mother's Lily" POAINTRY: THE COLLISION OF TWO WORLDS 2016
“Clitoridectomy” Like a Girl Anthology, Lucid Moose Press 2015
“Twice White Cops Brought My White Son Home..." The Fib Review 2015
"100 Words on My Father with a Big Fish" Alimentum 2015
"Late Elegy for My Father" Shot Glass Journal 2015
"Before We Sleep You Speak of Med School Cadavers" SCOPE 2008
"Nightcrawlers" Papyrus 1988
"A Child's Evening at Oak Grove Church" Papyrus 1988
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FICTION AND NONFICTION
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"Thunder All Around: Civil War Letters of Emily Wiley" Papyrus 1993
"A Portrait of Livia: From the Journal of a Noblewoman of Imperial Rome" Papyrus 1991
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
"What Holds" Tiferet Runner Up 2020
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"Lordy," "Dog-Ruby," and "Three Sweet Leaves," The Comstock Review Special Merit Winners 2019
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“Before We Sleep You Speak of Med School Cadavers” First Place Poetry, SCOPE 2008.
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“A Child’s Evening at Oak Grove Church” First Place Unrhymed Poetry, New Orleans’ Faulkner House Word & Music Fest 2003
“The Moon and the Spoken Word” First Place Unrhymed Poetry Writer’s Digest 1999
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REVIEW & ANALYSIS
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Lucas, Lola. Quite a Rush. Review from Illinois Times: Jan Presley's poem "You Speak of Med School Cadavers" treads the line between life and death and finding the tear-stained humor of mortality. Bad poetry clunks and thuds. Good verse pleases. Great works twist your heart around in your body and change your eyes so they never again see in quite the same way. My face was thoroughly wet by the time I finished reading this poem.
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In her 2015 philosophy dissertation, A CLOSE READING OF CREATIVE WRITING IN SCOPE, THE MEDICAL SCHOOL LITERARY MAGAZINE AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Heather Burns looks at 20 years of SCOPE literary journal. Among other poems she explores in her PDF is "You Speak of Med School Cadavers" on pages 91-92; the poem is on page 158. I have since edited the poem's title to clarify speaker.
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