POETRY (selected)
2022
- POETRY Magazine – Wavelength // Waveless, I Find It Harder to Love in Korean: On “Wavelength // Waveless”
- The Journal – self-portrait as tail-star (print)
- The Adroit Journal – Shattered
- Gigantic Sequins – Revolution Aubade
- HOME: Reimagining Interiority (a Youngarts exhibition) – Dear L.A. (print in YoungArts Gallery & The Tisch Gallery)
2021
- Frontier Poetry – Broken Abecedarian for America
- Waxwing Magazine – Life Goes On, Home
- WriteGirl – Ghazal for K
- Whale Road Review – Braillet
- Gordon Square Review – Runaway
- Superfroot Magazine – Love, Unencountered (pg 129)
- Oxidant Engine – Whalien 52
- Jet Fuel Review – In Which I Want Nothing
- Petrichor Journal – Skedaddle for Blind Girl - nominated for Best of the Net
- Red Rock Review – Disappearing Act (print)
- Indigo Lit – On Leaving
- Diode Poetry Journal – Mikrokosmos
- Altadena Review – POEM IN WHICH I CANNOT TALK ABOUT MY DISABILITY, SONNET FOR THE OTHER GIRLS
- Wildness Journal – There is no Renaissance Here
- Honey Literary – Abecedarian for secret murmurs
- perhappened magazine – Butterfly
2020
- Blue Marble Review – Topsy-Turvy
- Grain Magazine - Fish/Fishermen (print)
- Longleaf Review – Supermarket Horse - nominated for Best of the Net
- Cosmonauts Avenue – encounter during night of death
- Semicolon Lit – Breaking Point
- Variant Literature - Nightmare as Reincarnation (print)
- Claw & Blossom – Windsong
- Knight's Library Magazine – Lineage - nominated for the Pushcart Prize
- Dust Poetry Magazine – Self-Portrait in Small-Town Summer
- perhappened Magazine – haibun for everything that dies this summer - nominated for the Pushcart Prize
- Glass: A Journal of Poetry – Poem in which I talk about my disability
Jessica Kim is a born storyteller, a role so needed and worthy of celebration in these challenging times. Her inch-perfect metaphors inspire empathy and compel readers to not only pay attention to, but also trust in, what the youth have to say,
— Nikay Paredes, Programs Director of the Academy of American Poets & 2022 National Youth Poet Laureate Judge
[Kim's] work is a wonderful intersection of issues of ability/disability and identity. A powerful and extensive award winner who is pushing boundaries.
— Dr. Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, American pedagogical theorist
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