Slated for release on January 20th 2025, pre-order your copy of Jenna Goldsmith's latest release, The Worse For Wear (Cornerstone Press). 

"Steeped in early-aughts pop-culture, experimental poetics, and the absurdities of collegiate and political bureaucracy, The Worse for the Wear is a guide for how to just get through the day in American, and then how to collect those days into a meaningful life. From early, awkward teenage crushes, to the disillusionments of middle age, this book is for those of us trying to map out how we got from there to here, to forgive our younger selves, and to accept our current ones. Hard-earned truths are both unfrocked in blunt, direct confrontation, and costumed-up in rich, joyous language. Super-smart, super-funny, super-gay, and super-heart-wrenching, Goldsmith's work is a celebration of poetry as one of our flawed humanity's greatest, redeeming habits." - Robin LaMer Rahija, author of Inside Out Egg
 
"How does it feel to be in your body? asks Jenna Goldsmith in her fresh, important new collection, Worse for Wear, in which juxtapositions abound. What you mean is/the skin holds in so much/ What I’m thinking about/ is what the skin holds out...But it is not only the body that Goldsmith is thinking about: almost everything becomes fodder for interrogation, for resistance, for experience. What spills out, what cannot be contained finds its way to forms that both resist and shore up their subject. Experimentation meets everyday life in these poems that teem with virtuosic intensity. This collection offers something I don’t often find: surprise." - Sarah Etlinger, author of A Bright Wound.

"The poems are a physical record of tumult-- personal and professional-- with some reckonings of high school and moving back to the Midwest and relationships sprinkled throughout. This is my experiment, my internal wrestling-- what I work so hard to keep mine-- suddenly made external." - Jenna Goldsmith