POEMS & SHORT STORIES
- The Idiot Girl, 2024, in Denver Quarterly - Two poems, 2023, in A Common Well - Prologue to Crux, 2023, excerpt in Calamari Press Ink's Sleepingfish - The White Place and The Voice Figures, 2022, poems in Fence - Portrait of Emmett Till, 2021, poem in Exacting Clam - The Parallel of Water & Air, 2021, short story in Vol. 1 Brooklyn - Barren | Bloom, 2021, short story in Sip Cup - My daughter sleeps and Girl With Chimp, 2020, poem and painting in The Adirondack Review (nominated for a Pushcart) - A haiku for my period, 2020, poem in ellipsis - Soft Egg, 2020, short story in Duende - How the Island Forms, 2020, poem in The Gravity of the Thing (nominated for 2020 Best of the Net) - Carole Maso, 2019, article in Entropy's Under the Influence - Excerpt from The Book of the Last Word, 2019, excerpt in Big Other - The Dream of My Teeth and Joyce & his Sisters, 2017, poems in Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal (defunct) - The Wedding of Psyche, 2017, poem in Really System - Cordiform, 2016, short story in μtxt 2 from Medusa's Laugh Press - At the End of Hope, 2016, short story in Lunch Ticket - Rolling Bones, Rolling Home, 2016, short story in The Great American Literary Magazine (defunct) - Shalosh, 2016, poem in Winter Tangerine - A Pearl, 2015, short story in Chicago Literati (defunct) - Linda, 2015, short story in Split Lip Magazine (Finalist for The Best Small Fictions of 2015) - Amor Fati, 2014, short story in "Three" anthology from PushPen Press - The Quickening, and The Jerusalem Syndrome, 2014, poems in Luna Luna Magazine - Hand to G-d, 2014, short story in Santa Fe Writers Project - The Banshee, or Margaret Mary's Red-Leather Satchel, 2014, short story in BlazeVOX - A Small Apocalypse, 2014, short story in Disorder Anthology by Red Dashboard Publishing - Shalosh, 2014, poem in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review - Frost, 2014, short story in Zouch Magazine - Mon bijou Indien, 2014, poem in L'Allure des Mots (defunct) - Faith at Sea, 2012, poem in Best of 2012 Storm Cycle anthology - Vinny, Brooklyn 2008 and The Pool, 2013, poems in L'Allure des Mots (defunct) - JesiBelle waits for the hounds, 2013, poem in Hell Whore anthology - Cackotopia, or the Fetus, god, Silence, and the City, 2011, poem in The Houston Literary Review (defunct) - JesiBelle waits for the hounds, 2011, poem in NYPL Reader's Den - Glossolalia, 2010, poetry collection from MFG/Imprint Publishing |
REVIEWS
- Minireviews in Exacting Clam, 2024: Daniel Beauregard's Lords of Chaos, Matthew Burnside's Centrifugal, Craig Buchner's Fish Cough, and Benjamin Niespodziany's Cardboard Clouds
- The Machine in the Ghost: Thomas Kendall’s How I Killed the Universal Man in Exacting Clam, 2024
- Song of a Specific Time: Diane Josefowicz’s L’Air du Temps (1985) in Exacting Clam, 2024
- Fudge—A Treat, a Lie: Andrew Weatherhead’s Fudge in Exacting Clam, 2024
- "All About Eve": Jesi Bender Reads Carolyn Oliver's Mirror Factory in Heavy Feather Review, 2024
- Cheers to the Weirdos - Part Deux. Best of 2023 list for Heavy Feather
- A COVID Collaboration: Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller's There is Only One Ghost in the World in Exacting Clam, 2023
- Writing as Living Document / Memorial: Dan O'Brien's Survivor's Notebook in Exacting Clam, 2023
- Language as Form / Language as Music: Oisín Breen's Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems in Exacting Clam, 2023
-"I charge ahead with the verve of a cemetery": Mohammed Khair-Eddine's Resurrection of Wild Flowers,2023, review in Exacting Clam
- Doomsday and the Nuclear Family: A Review of Emily Strasser's Half-Life of A Secret, 2023, review in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
- Fractal and Fracture of the Feminine Experience: A Review of Dawn Raffel's Boundless As The Sky, 2023, review in New Letters
- Memory's Fiasco: A Review of Lance Olsen's Always Crashing in the Same Car, 2023, review in 3AM Magazine
- Ex Members by Tobias Carroll, 2023, review in Rain Taxi
- Vi Khi Nao's SUICIDE: A Meditation on Life, 2023, review in The Exacting Clam
- Cheers to the Weirdos!: Jesi Bender Presents a Heavy Feather Review Favorites List for 2022, 2022, list in Heavy Feather Review
- Cowboy Koans: Jesi Buell Reviews BIPOLAR COWBOY by Noah Cicero, 2022, review in Heavy Feather Review
- The Pen She Guides Doesn't Translate: A review of HIST, 2022, review in The Exacting Clam
- There are Too Many Images In The World: A review of Kevin Sampsell's I Made An Accident, 2022, review in Atticus Review
- Exchange, We Change: A Review of Ursula Andkjaer Olsen’s My Jewel Box, 2022, review in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
- Anybody Home? A Review of Nicole McCarthy's A Summoning, 2022, review in Diagram
- Finding the He(Art) in Reality TV: A Review of Alex Carrigan's May All Our Pain Be Champagne, 2022, review in Glass Poetry
- Barrelhouse Reviews: Vi Khi Nao's Waiting for God, 2022, review in Barrelhouse
- "In Praise of Quiet Things": Jesi Buell's Review of Karen Shangguan's Graphic Novel QUIET THOUGHTS, 2022, review in Heavy Feather Review
- A Review of The Great Indoorsman by Andrew Farkas, 2022, review in North American Review
- Haiti and the Homunculus: A Review of Aina Hunter's Charlotte and the Chickenman, 2022, review in The Exacting Clam
- Strange Bloodlines: A Review of Marcus Pactor's Who Begat Who Begat Who Begat, 2021, review in The Excating Clam
- Many Meanings in a Meta-allegory: A Review of From the Caves, 2021, review in Diagram
- Repetition is Magical: A Review of FIDELITORIA, 2021, review in Heavy Feather Review
- The Unexpected Everyday in The Vegas Dilemma, 2021, review in The Chicago Review of Books
- The Parts We Play: A Review of Terese Svoboda's Theatrix, 2021, review in Heavy Feather Review
- BRING ME THE HEAD OF QUENTIN TARANTINO, 2020, review in Heavy Feather Review
- Identity as a Hall of Mirrors, 2020, review in The Rumpus
- “Many Restless Concerns” by Gayle Brandeis, 2020, review in Another Chicago Magazine
- How a Young Girl Grows; or, Myth and Metamorphosis: A Review of Brandi George's Faun, 2020, review in The Adroit Journal
- The Hypothetical Men in The Hypothetical Man, 2019, review in Heavy Feather Review
- Nothing Ever Disappears, 2019, review in The Rumpus
- Review of A Dog Between Us by Duncan Barlow, 2019, in Entropy
- The Devil in the Details: History and Myth in Lee Klein's JRZDVLZ, 2019, review in Heavy Feather Review
- Review of All Roads Lead to Blood by Bonnie Chau, 2018, in Heavy Feather Review
ACADEMIC
- Strategies for critical visual literacy instruction in small liberal arts institutions, 2024, co-authored book chapter in Unframing the Visual: Visual Literacy Pedagogy in Academic Libraries and Information Spaces from ACRL Press
- Exploring information literacy assessment: Content analysis of student prefocus essays, 2018, co-authored scholarly article in ACRL News
- From Dreamweaver To Drupal: A University Library Website Case Study, 2018, co-authored scholarly article in Information Technology & Libraries
- Murder on the Adirondack Express: Knowledge, Violence and the Reference Desk, June/July 2014, scholarly journal article in Taylor & Francis' The Reference Librarian
- Social Network Analysis in the Humanities: Faculty-Student Projects Using NodeXL, 2013, co-authored academic paper/presentation, DCHS 8th Annual Conference at DePaul University
- Finding the Humanist's G-d: Mapping Focus in Vonnegut's Universe, 2013, academic paper/presentation for The Arts of Attention Conference at Károli Gáspár University in Budapest, Hungary,published by L'Harmattan Press
EDITING
- KERNPUNKT Press, editor-in-chief, 2015-present
--- Profiled in the Big Other, 2020 - L'editeur de Babel
- Exacting Clam, reviews editor, 2023-present
- Paradigm Publishing's Cuerpos by Pablo Conejero Lopez, editor, 2019
- Red Paint Hill Publishing, assistant editor, 2013-2015
- L.E.S. Review, editor-in-chief, 2009-2011
- Shakespeare Foundation of Spain's New Reality by Pablo Conejero Lopez, editor, 2011
- Metropolitan Archivist, student editor, 2009-2011