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Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

American poet from Riverside, California From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (born December 17, 1987)[1] is an American poet from Riverside, California.[2] She is a Visiting Professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.[3]

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Espinoza's works have been published in Poetry Magazine,[4] PEN America,[5] Lambda Literary,[6] The Offing,[7] Shabby Doll House,[8] Electric Cereal,[9] Voicemail Poems,[10] and The Rumpus.[11]

Espinoza's work covers topics like mental illness, coming out as a transgender woman, and universal themes like love, grief, anger, and beauty. Her poems often take a tender yet searing tone, yoking together personal experiences of loss with a sense of fullness underscored by abstract metaphors drawing from both urban and rural environments.

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Bibliography

  • i'm alive / it hurts / i love it. Boost House. 2014 ISBN 9780996069113
  • THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS. Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016. ISBN 9781937865733
  • Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope. Big Lucks Books. 2018. ISBN 9781941985830
  • I'm Alive. It Hurts. I Love It. (Second Edition) Big Lucks Books. 2019. ISBN 9781941985304
  • I Don't Want To Be Understood. 2024. Alice James Books. ISBN 9781949944631
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