Jacqueline Allen Trimble

Jacqueline Allen Trimble
HOW TO SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE
examines the many apocalypses that African Americans have weathered, advising that those who wish to avoid annihilation should "live by rage and joy and turpentine."
ABOUT ME

JACQUELINE ALLEN TRIMBLE
lives and writes in Montgomery, Alabama, where she is a professor of English and chairs the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University. Her work has appeared in various online and print publications including Poetry Magazine, Poet Lore, The Offing, The Louisville Review, and Blue Lake Review. American Happiness (2016), her first collection, published by New South Books, won the Balcones Poetry Prize. How to Survive the Apocalypse, her new collection, is available August 2022.
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“Jacqueline Trimble’s AMERICAN HAPPINESS is an amazing read. Once I started these poems, once I had finished the first poem about her father, I could not stop reading but continued devouring them until I had finished them all. These poems are strong, passionate, well crafted. “

Marge Piercy
Made in Detroit and The Hunger Moon
- AMERICAN HAPPINESS
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