Teaching Writer | Editor | Project Manager
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Teaching writer Jenifer DeBellis is author of Blood Sisters (Main Street Rag, 2018) and founding director of aRIFT Warrior Project. In addition to publishing and promoting her poetry and prose, she edits Pink Panther Magazine—an international women’s art and literature journal—and directs the Detroit Writers’ Guild. When she's not editing or writing for others, she sneaks in time for her own craft, which was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize and appears in AWP's Festival Writer, Calyx, the Good Men Project, Literary Orphans, Sliver of Stone, Solstice, and other fine journals. JDB holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Solstice of Pine Manor College. A former writer-in-residence for the Meadow Brook Writing Project, she facilitates workshops for Oakland University’s MBWP Writing Camps, as well as teaches writing and literature for Saginaw Valley State University and Macomb Community College.
Little girl,
you will survive
these skinned knees, these bruised
cheeks. You will not jump, will not
form lasting scars with the barbed tip
of a #2 lead, will not die
in your sleep, no matter how
many times you pray for it. No
one will save you
in the end like they do in fairytales.
Little girl,
you will survive
the skinned cheeks, bruised knees,
starched heart. You will not find love
as the life of the party, will not
stop the kids with their sticks
from bashing your chest
until your innocence breaks free & settles
at your feet like piñata candy.
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Pink Panther Magazine News
Volume 10, No 1, Is Live, 8 March 2019
Submissions are open for Volume 10, No 12, due for release 8 September 2019
