Comings / Goings | Jenni B. Baker

  dancing girl press, 2015$7.00   Jenni B. Baker is an experimental poet and editor based in Bethesda, MD.  Her poetry — mostly found, some not — has been published in more than three dozen journals and publications.  She is currently creating erasure poetry from David Foster Wallace’s 1079-page novel Infinite Jest. In 2011, she founded The Found Poetry Review, the first literary journal dedicated exclusively to publishing erasure, cut-up and related types of found poetry.       PROOF   Words hold no holy bond post-scotch drown, grow hot on downtown’s gold crowns, to-do crowds. Old Crow’s shot sons glow strong on glory, know wrong lots, lost control.   My cross, fox-born boy, go slow: torch no stories, storm no shows. For worth-proof, blow smoky to my post-p.m. door, cool blood on comfort. For mottos, know only my soft, long-off look: not now.  ***