September 15, 2022
Father
jess ingrassellino, fall 2019 My father isn’t religious but his parents are catholic, so he…
September 14, 2022
Stories We Tell Ourselves
jess ingrassellino, October 2020 content warning: attempted suicide, depression, inpatient hospitalization … and there’s this…
September 14, 2022
The Aisle
jess ingrassellino, summer 2019 (for my mother) Tomorrow, she will graduate from high school. But…
September 14, 2022
Night at Beachy Head
jess ingrassellino, summer 2019 They hadn’t asked to be there, those sharp stones at the…
September 14, 2022
The Call
jess ingrassellino, july 2019 Brushed off again. She’ll always be his second best, silver medal.…
September 14, 2022
Two Poems: Sketches of St. Petersburg
jess ingrassellino, june 2019 I read Spouts (1921), an earlier poem by William Carlos Williams.…
April 25, 2021
Reading the world, slowly
Back in 2015, I had my final inpatient mental hospitalization. That May, I'd experienced the…
August 24, 2020
The Gate (Nooner)
This poem is after a close reading of the poem The Storm (Bear), by Mary…
July 27, 2020
Beauty in the Process
This week, I experienced starting a lot of different types of learning. I am working…
July 19, 2020
How To Leave Home
I have chosen to model this poem after the poem Facts by Philip Levine (in…