Small Animal Project

Jessica Bozek grew up in a post-industrial city in the Northeast. She studied Slavic literature and languages at Boston University and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London, spent her early twenties attending medical society annual meetings for work, then moved to Barcelona, where she taught English to several people who (coincidentally, strangely) aspired to become the Spanish version of Anthony Robbins. Jessica received an MFA from the University of Georgia, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she hosts the Small Animal Project Reading Series. She teaches writing at Boston University.

Upcoming Readings

Book

• The Bodyfeel Lexicon (Switchback, 2009) [Reviewed by Brynne Barnes at H_NGM_N, Natalie Lyalin at Tarpaulin Sky & Melinda Wilson at Coldfront]

Chapbooks

• correspondence (with Eli Queen, Dusie Kollektiv, 2007)
• Touristing (Dusie, 2009)
• Other People’s Emergencies (Hive/Dusie Kollektiv, 2009)
• Squint into the Sun (Dancing Girl, forthcoming in 2010)

Poem-Homes

• Action, Yes
• Apocryphal Text
• Artifice Magazine
• Brave Men Press
• Columbia Poetry Review
• Dusie
• Fairy Tale Review
• Foursquare
• GlitterPony
• Guernica
• Gulf Coast
• H_ngm_n
• Jacket
• Kulture Vulture
• Left Facing Bird
• LIT
• Mail Art Exhibition
• MoonLit
• Octopus
• P-QUEUE
• Seven Kitchens
• Shampoo
• Sharkforum
• Spell
• Womb

Interviews Online

• With Gregory Lawless (May 2009)
• With Melinda Wilson (May 2010)

Reviews Online

• After you, dearest language by Marisol Limon Martinez
• Dummy Fire by Sarah Vap
• Perfect Villagers by Sueyeun Juliette Lee
• The Tides by Genya Turovskaya

Selected Past Readings

• Friday, March 26, 2010. With Melissa Broder, Jackie Clark, Cate Marvin, Bret Eugene Ralph & Stephanie Whited. Stain of Poetry, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY.
• Saturday, February 27, 2010. 3 pm. With Ori Fienberg, Elisa Gabbert & William Walsh. Artifice Magazine Launch Party, Small Animal Project, Outpost 186, Cambridge, MA.
• Saturday, January 30, 2010. 5 pm. With Julie Carr & Liz Young. Deep Moat Reading Series, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
• Saturday, October 17, 2009. 12:50 pm. Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Barnes & Noble, Lowell, MA.
• Wednesday, July 1, 2009. 7pm. With Steve Burt. New England Institute of Art, Brookline, MA.
• Saturday, June 6, 2009. With Shane Jones. Publicly Complex Reading Series, Ada Books, Providence, RI.
• Friday, February 13, 2009. Experiment #26: A Small Press Showcase, Links Hall, Chicago, IL.

Miscellaneous Multimedia

• Poets and Puppets: Daniela Olszewska reading “Dear Applicant”
• Guernica: Jessica reading “The Seamstresses’ Tale,” “The Linguist’s Tale,” and “The Lone Survivor’s Tale”
• Massachusetts Poetry Festival: Jessica reading from The Bodyfeel Lexicon and Squint into the Sun