Jenni Moody

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About Jenni Moody
Jenni Moody is a Distinguished Dissertation Fellow at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee’s PhD Program in Creative Writing. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her stories have been published in Crab Orchard Review, Booth, and Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, among others.
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Blog postNext week I’ll be attending the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Tampa, Florida. Follow me on Twitter (@moodyjenni), and I’ll tweet photos and panel news when I can.
I’m super excited to participate in my first AWP panel, especially since it focuses on an issue close to my heart — crossovers between composition and creative writing pedagogies and identities. Interested? Here’s more information:
“Creative Writers, Composition Teachers” S241 Satur4 years ago Read more -
Blog postMy visual collage poem “Tesseract” is up at Aquifer: The Florida Review Online. I’m so grateful to the journal for publishing visual hybrid pieces and for their wonderful work formatting my poem!
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Blog postLast weekend my friend and I took our canine companions for a road trip to Washington Island in northern Wisconsin. To get there, we drove along the peninsula, then took a ferry.
Abe loves the water, and he was happy to have access to quiet beaches and an expanse of forest.
We watched a large thunderstorm roll in from People’s Park, and one day when we were walking in the garden, we heard a large crash at the edge of the forest. It was a tree, the leaves still g5 years ago Read more -
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Blog postThroughout this course, I’ve gained an appreciation for and an awareness of the importance of the collective in artistic action. Mixed in with these observations, however, is the realization that academic communities are in a constant state of flux. Each year new friendships are strengthened, and then in the spring with graduation or fellowships, thoseContinue reading "Reflections on Surrealism & Revolution"5 years ago Read more
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Blog postDuring the last week of classes, the English department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee holds an awards ceremony recognizing undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty for their writing and teaching.
This year I am honored to receive the Frederick J. Hoffman Award for my essay on Angela Carter’s short story “The Company of Wolves,” which I wrote in Professor José Lanter’s Magical Realism & Fabulism literature course in the Fall 2016 semester. As5 years ago Read more -
Blog postIn our first blog posts, we were asked to respond to the question “Can art be subversive? Can it have real political impact?”
For me, the answer was always yes. But reading Yates McKee’s “Occupy and the End of Socially Engaged Art,” John Berger’s “The Nature of Mass Demonstrations,” and watching the documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry helped me visualize the pathways from art to activism.
Demonstrations express political ambitions before the political means necessary to realise5 years ago Read more -
Blog post“Our synaptic network is momentarily disrupted when we are truly surprised, as our brain scrambles to figure out what is going on. This is not a sinister experience; it is a moment of openness and freshness, in which new perspectives, responses, and reflections are possible” (Bogad 37).
I became a vegan in 2011, soon after I graduated from my MFA program. My partner and I were living in Alabama, in my hometown, and we started a community group – first to meet other vegans and build a5 years ago Read more -
Blog post“I’m your audience, and you’re mine” (Bernstein 96).
In All the King’s Horses, Michele Bernstein portrays an open marriage between Genevieve and Gilles. They meet a young woman, Carole, whom they are both attracted to, and Gilles enters into a relationship with her.
The balance of power shifts when Gilles falls in love with Carole. Genevieve acknowledges this change, and the potential dangers: “For the first time, perhaps, he wasn’t sharing things with me” (43). Genevieve is b5 years ago Read more -
Blog postIn my research on Fluxus, I found that the movement had two main goals: (1) to challenge elite art institutions and to (2) meld art and life so that they are inseparable. In order to blur these boundaries, they experimented with form through “intermedia” – creating genres of art that crossed traditional categories, like visual poetry. The enactment of art was another way to reach for this goal. Performance and the actions of the viewer became important ways to change the dynamics of space. Th5 years ago Read more
Titles By Jenni Moody
Strangelet Volume 1 Issue 2
Cover art by Kirsty Greenwood
Art by Heather Gwinn, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Denny Marshall
Poetry by Kurt Newton, Khadija Anderson, Chelsea Eckert, Justin Hamm
Fiction:
Start the Day with an Espresso by Steve Toase
The Secret Underground Tooth Economy of Boston by Will White
How to Break Up with Your Zombie Boyfriend by Jenni Moody
Jarod Anderson by The Better Angels of Parasites
The Ragabash Foxtrot, Part 1 by Dorian Graves
The Colored Lens strives to do exactly that. By publishing four to five short stories and serialized novellas a quarter in genres ranging from fantasy, to science fiction, to slipstream or magical realism, we hope to help our readers see the world just a bit differently than before they came to us.
Featuring works by Julie Jackson, Imogen Cassidy, Jamie Lackey, J. C. Conway, Kristen Hatten, Jenni Moody, Jarod K. Anderson, Daniel Rosen, R.E. Awan, Judith Field, Bo Balder, and Diane Kenealy.
Edited by Dawn Lloyd and Daniel Scott