Poetic Conversations is spooky-pleased to share these visually gripping blackout and mixed-media poems by the phenomenal Jessica McHugh. As she explained these offerings: “Six pieces from my Apokrupha Publishing blackout poetry collections, A Complex Accident of Life (created from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein), Strange Nests (from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Secret Garden), and my forthcoming collection The Quiet Ways I Destroy You (from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women).”

Jessica McHugh is a 2x Bram Stoker Award-nominated poet, a multi-genre novelist, & an internationally-produced playwright who spends her days surrounded by artistic inspiration at a Maryland tattoo shop. She’s had thirty books published in fifteen years, including her Elgin Award-nominated blackout poetry collections, “A Complex Accident of Life” and “Strange Nests,” her sci-fi bizarro romp, “The Green Kangaroos,” and her cross-generational horror series, “The Gardening Guidebooks Trilogy.” Explore the growing worlds of Jessica McHugh at McHughniverse.com.

Instagram / Twitter / Tiktok / pretty much everywhere: @thejessmchugh

Purchase Jessica McHugh’s latest collection: The Quiet Ways I Destroy You.

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