“Tomorrow: the same world,
only briefer.”
—Afterwords
“Ask the tree why it is black.
Do not presume a fire.”
—Withness
Natalie Diaz’s judges comments on Jaye Kranz’s poem ‘Loneliness Was Part Of It’.
POETRY
Oxford Poetry — ‘The Monterey Pine’ (forthcoming)
Kenyon Review — ‘Siberia’ (forthcoming)
New Ohio Review — ‘Infinity Net’ (Winter 2026 Online Exclusive)
West Branch Magazine — ‘Withness’ (Fall print issue No. 106, September 2024)
West Branch Magazine — ‘The Least Light’ (Fall print issue No.106, September 2024)
The Florida Review — ‘Afterwords’ (Spring 2025, Issue 48.2)
Frozen Sea — ‘Loneliness Was Part Of It' (Issue Six, October 2024.) This poem was also featured in Verse Daily.
The Marrow International Poetry Journal — ‘Portmanteau’ (Issue Two, October 2024) or here
Poetry Northwest — ‘Letter To A Groundhog’ (Winter & Spring 2026)
Foglifter — ‘Life Still’ (Issue 10.1, July 2025)
Australian Book Review — ‘My Father Reassembles Himself On The Verge’ (July 2026)
The Cincinnati Review — ‘Your Inbox Is Too Much With Us — a correspondence’ (Spring 2025, Issue 22.1) along with this video on their website to accompany the publication of the poem, replete with sound design and ASCII landscapes.
Best of Australian Poems 2024 — ‘Portmanteau’ (paperback)
Foglifter — ‘Life Still’ (Issue 10.1, July 2025)
Cordite Poetry Review — ‘Nox’ or to view on mobile here (‘Space’ issue, February 2025)
Massachusetts Review — ‘Hereness’, Vol. 67, Issue 3, September 2026
Video-except of ‘Your Inbox Is Too Much With Us’, published in The Cincinnati Review online to coincide with the print publication of the poem. Video & Sound design by Jaye Kranz
Tiny library with post-it note ‘Take me I am free you be it too’. (Photo: Jaye Kranz)