Joni Renee Whitworth

Joni Renee Whitworth is an artist and writer from rural Oregon. Their art has been shared on such diverse stages as The Moth in Portland, the Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts in Costa Mesa, California, and the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn in partnership with the Morpheus Youth Project. Their writing explores themes of nature, family, and the body, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Superstition Review, xoJane, and regional journals. Their chapbook, Your Full Real Name, was published in 2017 (Future Prairie Press). They are best known for lush accounts of intimate meals, loss, pastoral youth and discovery, and queerness.

“Top Ten Memories of the Green Chair”, “In the Valley of Secrets” and “Sweater Weather”

I.
The green chair was the width of a three-year-old
so when stretched horizontally across your legs
I was perfectly encapsulated by its soft, mushy arms and you
you put cherry blossoms in my curls
Poetry
Poetry Issue Nine

Joni Renee Whitworth

Joni Renee Whitworth is an artist and writer from rural Oregon. Their art has been shared on such diverse stages as The Moth in Portland, the Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts in Costa Mesa, California, and the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn in partnership with the Morpheus Youth Project. Their writing explores themes of nature, family, and the body, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Superstition Review, xoJane, and regional journals. Their chapbook, Your Full Real Name, was published in 2017 (Future Prairie Press). They are best known for lush accounts of intimate meals, loss, pastoral youth and discovery, and queerness.

“Top Ten Memories of the Green Chair”, “In the Valley of Secrets” and “Sweater Weather”

I.
The green chair was the width of a three-year-old
so when stretched horizontally across your legs
I was perfectly encapsulated by its soft, mushy arms and you
you put cherry blossoms in my curls
Poetry
Poetry Issue Nine
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