Jessica Rigney | Without Map
POET . ARTIST . FILMMAKER
Life stands still, and we see with new eyes.
In 2020, everything stilled, Over the course of the following three years, I looked to nature, to words, to life, for messages. A meditative journey unfolded as I moved through the days. Still Time reveals something of our interconnection with the natural world and the very human desire to tether oneself to a deeper intuition.
Your living risks all procedure
For this moment
Unbehaved.
Desire’s unexplainable swings between grasping and letting go-such are the divergent courses of this collection. Short rhythmic pieces drenched with the moodiness of lust’s confusions as well as the body’s clear ache, are interspersed among longer free verse works which tell the stories of lovers in layers of loving and leaving. This is as much a book about desire’s sighs as it is about its threads of sorrow.
Rest. less. waves – silvered. westered.
Poetic Film
My work with film is an extension of my poetry, linking sound, words, movement, visual symbolism.
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About Jessica
Jessica Rigney’s poems have appeared in Cider Press Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, Night Heron Barks, South Broadway Press, Wolverine Farm Press, and with The Poetry Foundation. Her work is included in these anthologies: Thought For Food: An Anthology Benefiting Denver Food Rescue, Dwell: Poems About Home, We are the West: A Colorado Anthology, and Matriarch: Meditations on Motherhood.
She is the author of Follow a Field: a Photographic & Poetic Essay (2016), Entre Nous (2017), Within Poetic Boxes (2018), Careful Packages (2019), Something Whole (2021), and Still Time (2023).
Jessica was a quarter-finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry in 2016 and 2018. Her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022. She lives and wanders in Colorado and northern New Mexico, where she films and collects feathers and stones.
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