Here at the CLC, we believe that words have the power to build community, bear witness, and transform lives. Few embody that belief more fully than our own Jackie Chicalese.
We are thrilled to share that Jackie’s poems “Grief Fragment”, “Flower Theory”, and “Whitetail” have been published in Vol. 46, No. 3-4 of the New England Review, one of the most respected literary journals in the country, published out of Middlebury College. This is a remarkable achievement and one that the entire CLC community is celebrating.
Jackie serves as Assistant to the Brown Chair and Symposium Coordinator here at the CLC and brings that same thoughtfulness and depth of care to everything she does – whether she’s coordinating our Biennial Symposium, contributing to scholarly conversations about community literacies, or crafting the kind of poetry that stays with you long after you’ve set the page down.
A Ph.D. student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Jackie holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas. Her work draws from her home in northern Appalachia, illness, and gardens. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, American Literary Review, Poetry Northwest, and beyond, and her scholarly work has been published in Writers: Craft & Context.
We are so proud of you, Jackie. This is exactly the kind of work that reminds us all why we do what we do.