Philip Jenks

Philip Jenks wrote two volumes of poetry, On the Cave You Live In (Flood Editions, 2002) and My First Painting will be "The Accuser" (Zephyr Press, 2005). He's published two chapbooks, The Elms Left Elm Street (Plane Bukt Press, 1993 and Cultural Society, 2008) and the ekphrastic How Many of You are You? (Dusie, 2006). He is completing his third manuscript, Colony Collapse Disorder. He teaches at University of Illinois at Chicago. His poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Traverse, GutCult, h_ngm_n, The Canary, The Gig, Cultural Society, LVNG, Cultural Society, and elsewhere. He collaborates with Simone Muench, publishing in The Canary, Zoland, Moonlit, barrelhouse, Eleven Eleven, and elsewhere. He is a vegan committed to having mercy for all animals and plays percussion with the Howling Hex on Drag City Records.