Chapbook: The Body of All Things
Finishing Line Press, 2017
Cover art by Aremy Stewart.
“In these vulnerable and wise poems Rebecca Jamieson probes the complexities of family, growing up, and the sheer mystery of being an embodied consciousness in a world that is at once beautiful and painful. “I value the bitter/ medicines, the spiky plants/ with poison flowers,” she tells us, giving us poems that are themselves curative and astringent in their intimacy and hard-won insights. This, then, is a book which arrives at a deep “yes” on its journey from innocence to experience: “Some yeses/ come in a wild voice, others/ are very quiet…” she says. Rebecca Jamieson’s voice has the ability to contain both, often in the same poem. And after experiencing such poems we feel like we might know not only this poet but even ourselves a little better if we’re brave enough to follow where her questions lead.”
–Ger Killeen
Essays
“Driftless Heart” (Reverie, May 2025)
“Real Writers Don’t Write Alone” (Vermont College of Fine Arts, May 2025)
“Nurturing Creative Webs” (Madison Magazine, February 2025)
“From Unschooling to Belonging” (Chicago Story Press, February 2025)
“Sewing White Supremacy” - Winner of a 2025 Wisconsin Writers Award and the 2024 Tupelo Quarterly Prose Prize
“Mapping the Sinister” (Maine Review, April 2023)
“You’re Not Ok. That’s Ok.” (To the Best of Our Knowledge, June 2022)
“The Wilderness Within” (Allegory Ridge, December 2021)
“Leaving Shambhala” (Entropy, June 2020)
“Haunted at Home” (The Offing, October 2019)
“The Practice of Joy: An Interview with Jen Currin” (Hunger Mountain, May 2019)
“The Dharma of Desire” (Lion’s Roar, April 2012)
Interviews & Reviews
“‘The Dalai Lama’s Gift’ documents a groundbreaking visit” (Isthmus, April 2025)
“Forward Theater’s ‘A Case for the Existence of God’ explores an unlikely friendship” (Isthmus, March 2025)
“Madison Public Theatre’s ‘Wintertime’ asks big questions” (Isthmus, February 2025)
“Letter from a Childless Cat Lady” (Isthmus, October 2024)
“A Review of Red List Blue” (Hunger Mountain, June 2021)
“Without Joy, Nothing is Sustainable: The Artist First-Responders Waking Up Democracy with Play, Billboards, and Capes” (Pioneer Works’ Broadcast, September 2020)
Poetry
“In the Time Before Worry” (Mid-American Review, October 2022)
“What We Say When We Say Nothing” (Pom Pom, December 2019)
“Portrait of the Black Hole as Alcoholic” (Rattle, April 2019)
“Dear Mama,” “The Taste of Apple,” “All the Spring Nights,” “Voices” (M Review, September 2016)
“Cows” (Voicecatcher, Winter 2016)
“Perseid” (Calyx, Winter 2015)
“Landlubber” (Stirring: A Literary Collection, September 2011)
“Away on the Wind” (andreview, June 2010)
“Home Calling” (andreview, January 2010)
“Ghosts” (re(evolve), Summer 2009)
“Seen Again” (The Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, 2008)
“Crab” (The Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, 2004)
Cup of Poems with a Side of Prose, 2003