SWWIM sustains and celebrates women poets by connecting creatives across generations and by curating a living archive of contemporary poetry, while solidifying Miami as a nexus for the literary arts.
No green bean girl. No limber cucumber. I’m ample-angled. A gamble in bangles. Madrigal in a cramped catsuit made indelible. I’m fractal, flammable, a fabular handful of arpeggios. Cupid still visits me. I’m emblem and actual, sequined, chromatic. I dance a red fandango into embers. I’m a naughty old bag, a wild December. Keep your bowler on. I’m Jupiter’s daughter, a triple moon Dame in low-heeled sandals. Heft the Prosecco. Light a candle. I’ve still got a scandal left in me.
Janet Jennings’ poetry and flash fiction have appeared in 32 Poems, Baltimore Review, Nimrod, Shenandoah, and Verse Daily, among others. She is the author of the chapbook, Traces in Water. For twenty years she owned and ran Sunspire, a natural foods company. Janet lives in San Anselmo, California, with her husband and twin daughters.
