Santa Tarantula

Jordan Pérez works professionally in online safety and childhood sexual abuse prevention. She has an MFA in creative writing from American University and has published poetry in Poetry Magazine, Cutthroat, Poetry International, Mississippi Review, and more.

Part 1. Smallmouth

Smallmouth

Twelve

Your Father Knew Many Women

The Masculinity Camps

Deadgirl

Knockout Rose

In This Story

Body

The Men

Mixed-Up Sestina

Tamar

Men Everywhere Are Setting Traps

A Desolate Woman

The Glory Has Departed

Letter to My Grandfather in April

Lot's Daughter

Part 2. Dissent

O God of Cuba

Dissent

Santa Tarantula

Becoming Wild

Delilah

The Dream

Gomer

I Consider Violence

Jael

Wanting

New Study Say Men Who Do Dishes Are Less Likely to Kill You

Bathymetry

How to Be the Other Woman

The Woman with Wounded Hands

Chicken Heart

Crossing

Misplaced

Part 3. Gospel

Genesis

I Was Named for the River of Blessings

Upended

Pilgrimage

Asymptote

Theodore Roosevelt Island

Herding Tent Caterpillars

Rejoice

This Is What the Girl Really Wants

Things to Cling To

Liturgy

The Gospel According to the Girl

Acknowledgements