As a professional dancer, Jessica Nooney could leap very high and stay in the air for a long time. She thinks those two elements show up in her poetry thirty years later. Her poetry often deals with women’s lives. Jessica Nooney believes that the more we acknowledge and name the specific actions and feelings of women’s lives, the better our situation will be in the world. She also believes that if this planet is to survive, women need to be as powerful as men and that it’s time for men to be held accountable for their personal and collective crimes against women.

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