Jami Macarty is the author of The Long Now That Conditions Permit, selected as the winner of the 2023 Test Site Poetry Series Prize by Sherwin Bitsui, Claudia Keelan, Donald Revell, Sasha Steensen, and Ronaldo Wilson, to be published by the University of Nevada Press December 2025. Jami’s first full-length poetry collection, The Minuses (Center for Literary Publishing, 2020), won the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award – Poetry Arizona. Jami’s four chapbooks of poetry include The Whole Catastrophe (Vallum Chapbook Series, 2024), Instinctive Acts (Nomados Literary Publishers, 2018), Mind of Spring (No. 22, Vallum Chapbook Series, 2017), winner of the 2017 Vallum Chap[book Award, and Landscape of The Wait (Finishing Line Press, 2017).

Jami’s writing has been supported by arts agencies such as British Columbia Arts Council and Arizona Commission on the Arts, by arts communities, such as Community of Writers, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Napa Valley Writers’ Conference; by seven Pushcart Prize nominations between 2016-2024; by 12 finalist designations for The Minuses (Center for Literary Publishing, 2020), including the Lexi Rudnitsky Award | Persea Books, the Lake Merritt Poetry Prize | Omnidawn Publishing, and The Hillary Gravendyk Prize | Inlandia Institute. Jami’s second poetry manuscript has been bolstered by four finalist designations from Interim’s Test Site Poetry Series Prize, the Besty Joiner Flanagan Award for Poetry, and twice from Brick Books. The editors of American, Australian, British, and Canadian journals have supported Jami’s individual poems which appear or are forthcoming in literary magazines such as Arc Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Capilano Review, Colorado Review, Interim, EVENT, The Journal, The Laurel Review, Otoliths, Orbis, The Rumpus, Vallum, and Volt. And Jami is supported by you, a beloved community of readers and writers.

Below, a sampling of Jami’s published/forthcoming writing: books, chapbooks, poems, reviews (of & by), interviews (of & by) from 2012-2026:

2026-YEAR OF THE HORSE: Fire Horse: Freedom, Momentum, Strength, and Determination

Celebrating The Long Now Conditions Permit, published December 2 by University of Nevada Press!

2026 EVENTS ON MY CALENDAR: Attend, Watch & Listen to My Readings & Presentations

  • Jan 10: Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, Portland, OR
    • Poetry readings by Macarty, Chen, Hasegawa, Zbeb
  • Jan 24: Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice Beach Los Angeles
  • Feb 18: Tucson Festival of Books Author Insights Series, 485 N 1st Ave, Tucson, AZ
  • Mar 6: AWP-Baltimore
    • Reading at David & Dad’s, 115 N. Charles St. 
    • Book signings at Interim/UNLV booth
  • Mar 14-15: Tucson Festival of Books
    • Sat, 11:30a Panel: The Poem IS Political
    • Sun, 11:30a Panel: Poetry vs. the Patriarchy
  • Apr 1: DMQ Quarterly Review
    • Virtual Salon reading
  • Apr 3: Piper Writers House, Virginia G. Piper Center, Arizona State University
    • Poetry reading: Jami Macarty w/ Geoffrey Babbitt
  • April 6: Collected Works Bookstore
    • Poetry reading: Jami Macarty w/Kyce Bello
  • April 25: Madrona Poetry Series, at Pelican Bay Books in Anacortes, WA
    • Poetry reading: Jami Macarty w/Heidi Seaborn
  • May 9: Open Books, Seattle, WA
    • Poetry reading: Jami Macarty w/Ching-In Chen & Laura Da’
  • May 27: Wild & Precious Life Series
    • Online poetry reading: Jami Macarty w/Lauren Camp & co.
  • May 30: Clark County Public Arts in Las Vegas, NV
    • Online workshop 10-12p

2026 INTERVIEW OF: A chance for communion and conversation…

  • Jan 30: Poet to Poet w/Radha Marcum

2026 POETRY: Individual Poems—literary magazines/anthologies, forthcoming & published

2026 REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS BY: my offering…

  • forthcoming in Rain Taxi:
    • Mandible Wishbone Solvent, by Asiya Wadud
  • forthcoming in Seneca Review:
    • Portal, by Tracy Faud
    • Green Island, by Liz Countryman
  • forthcoming in Colorado Review:
    • Severalty, by Laura Da’

2025-YEAR OF THE SNAKE: Wood Snake: Transformation, Versatility, Growth, and Creativity

2025 POETRY: Full-length collection (my second)

The Long Now That Conditions Permit

Winner of the 2023 Test Site Poetry Prize!

(University of Nevada Press, December 2, 2025)

  • Winner of the 2023 Test Site Poetry Series Prize
    • Selected by Sherwin Bitsui, Claudia Keelan, Donald Revell, Sasha Steenson & Ronaldo Wilson!
  • Finalist for the 2023 Test Site Poetry Series | Besty Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry
  • Finalist for 2023 Brick Books open reading
  • Finalist for 2022 Brick Books open reading
  • Finalist for 2021 Test Site Poetry Series | Besty Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry

The Whole Catastrophe (Vallum Chapbook Series, 2024)

2025 POETRY: Individual Poems—literary magazines/anthologies, forthcoming & published

2025 EVENTS ON MY CALENDAR: Attend, Watch & Listen to My Readings & Presentations

2025 REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS BY: An offering…

2024-YEAR OF THE DRAGON: Wood Dragon: Vitality, Creativity, Steadiness, Generosity, and Calmness.

2024 POETRY: Full-length collection (my second)

The Long Now That Conditions Permit (forthcoming University of Nevada Press, 2025)

  • Winner of the 2023 Test Site Poetry Series Prize on March 4, 2024!
    • Selected by Sherwin Bitsui, Claudia Keelan, Donald Revell, Sasha Steenson, & Ronaldo Wilson!
  • Finalist for the 2023 Test Site Poetry Series | Besty Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry
  • Finalist for 2023 Brick Books open reading
  • Finalist for 2022 Brick Books open reading
  • Finalist for 2021 Test Site Poetry Series

2024 POETRY: Chapbook poetry collection (my fourth)

The Whole Catastrophe (Vallum Chapbook Series, September 2024)

2024 POETRY: Individual Poems—literary magazines/anthologies, published!

2024 INTERVIEW OF: A chance for communion and conversation…

2024 EVENTS ON THE CALENDAR: Attend, Watch & Listen to My Readings & Presentations

2024 REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS BY: An offering of 40 reviews!

2023-YEAR OF THE RABBIT

2023 POETRY: Full-length collection (my second)

The Long Now That Conditions Permit, seeking a publisher…

  • Finalist for 2023 Brick Books open reading
  • Finalist for 2022 Brick Books open reading
  • Finalist for 2021 Test Site Poetry Series | Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry

2023 POETRY: Individual Poems—literary magazines/anthologies published!

2023 REVIEWS BY: An offering of 20 reviews!

2022-YEAR OF THE TIGER

2022 POETRY: Full-length collection (my second)

The Long Now That Conditions Permit

2022 POETRY: Individual Poems—literary journals/magazines published!

2022 EVENTS: Watch & Listen to My Readings & Presentations

2022 REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS: An offering of 18 reviews & 1 interview

2021-YEAR OF THE OX

2021 POETRY: Full-length collection

The Minuses

2021 POETRY: Individual Poems—literary journals/magazines published!

2021 EVENTS: Watch & Listen to My Readings & Presentations

  • July 8 Reading w/poets Saddiq Dzukoji & Catherine Strisik on Zoom-worldwide!
    • LISTEN & WATCH (Passcode: m2eJp=C^) to the July 8 reading
  • March 20 POG Arts of Tucson reading w/ Jeanne Heuving

2021 REVIEWS OF The Minuses

2021 INTERVIEWS OF Jami Macarty: an interview is a chance to practice the high art of conversation

2020-YEAR OF THE RAT

2020 POETRY: Full-length collection

The Minuses

  • WHOO HOO! The Minuses won the 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award – POETRY ARIZONA!
  • The Minuses  (March 2020), a Mountain West Poetry Series title, published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University, an imprint of University Press of Colorado.

2020 POETRY: Individual Poems—literary journals/magazines published!

  • “Ocean,” “Window,” “The Hollow,” “The Archeologist’s Wife,” “Listening,” & “On the Roof Under Sun’s Chandelier Alive and Together” in Interim, Volume 36, Issue 5; “Signs of Protest, Downtown Tucson, June 6, 2020,” a found/assembled poem in Journal of the Plague Year (June 13, 2020); “The Shelter” in The Rumpus: ENOUGH column (May 5th, 2020); “Endangered Species” poem from The Minuses reprinted in Journal of the Plague Year (April 18, 2020); “The Daughter” in Dusie blog (March 31, 2020), curated by rob mclennan; “Desert Distances,” a poem from The Minuses reprinted in Susan Gillis’ blog Concrete & River (March 24, 2020); “Memory Predator” and “Neighbors” in EVENT 48/3; “Leviathan” in Orbis #190; “Cultivated Aftermath of Posts” and “She-Civilian” in Tiny Spoon #3.

2020 ESSAYS: in anthologies 

2020 EVENTS: Watch & Listen to My Readings & Presentations

  • Dec 13 WATCH & LISTEN to Cultivating Voices Reading w/ Dayna Patterson & Page Starzinger
  • Jul 23 WATCH & LISTEN to Walt Whitman Birthplace Reading w/ Susana Case & Dayna Patterson
  • Jul 15 WATCH & LISTEN to Let’s Talk Books live conversation w/ Christina Chiu, Naomi Danis, Melanie Hamilton, & Thaddeaus Rutkowski
  • Jun 9 WATCH & LISTEN to Western C.A.R.E.S.’s Poetry Hour
    • (use pw: 8Q.A!M.?)
  • March 22: The Minuses Tucson Launch, online (no recording)
  • March 15: Existential Philosopher, Spiritual Sage Panel Moderator / Tucson Festival of Books w/ Sherwin Bitsui, Gina Franco, & Major Jackson–CANCELLED due to Covid-19
  • Mar 6: AWP: The Minuses Book Signing at Center for Literary Publishing (booth 1430)

2020 REVIEWS OF The Minuses

2020 INTERVIEWS OF: An interview is a chance to practice the high art of conversation

2020 REVIEWS BY: An offering of 25 reviews…

2019-YEAR OF THE PIG

2019 POETRY: Full-length collection

  • The Minuses forthcoming (February 2020) in the Mountain / West Poetry Series, published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University.

2019 POETRY: Individual Poems—literary journals/magazines published!

2019 ESSAYS: 

  • Digging for Heart, a chapter in Archaeologies of the Heart anthology

2019 EVENTS: Readings & Presentations 

  • Nov 24: The Capilano Review 39.3 launch, Artspeak Gallery, YVR
  • Nov 16: Artsmith | Kangaroo House, Orcas Island
  • Nov 14: Nomados 50th Book Party, People’s Co-Op Bookstore, YVR
  • Oct 4: The Poetry Gabriola Society, Gabriola Island
  • July 20: Tower of Babel | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

2019 REVIEWS OF: 

2019 REVIEWS BY (for The Maynard Views Series): An offering of 30 reviews

  • Re- View #8: My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan (Talonbooks, 2019), by Nikki Reimer & Cage of Lit Glass (Autumn House Press, 2019), by Charles Kell
  • Short-form Shout Outs |The Maynard (Facebook), Tuesdays wkly, starting June
  • Re- View #7: Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press, 2018), by Danielle Hanson  and SKY WRI TEI NGS (Coach House Books, 2018), by Nasser Hussain.

2018-YEAR OF THE DOG

2018 EVENTS: In 2018, I offered readings in celebration of my three chapbooks: Instinctive Acts (Nomados Literary Publishers, 2018) Mind of Spring (Vallum Chapbook Series, 2017), and Landscape of The Wait (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and to celebrate my collaborations with Japanese poet Soramaru Takayama and also with Canadian poet Jacqueline Turner—

  • Nov 29, 7p for Nomados Literary Publishers at People’s Co-Op Bookstore
  • Oct 30, 6:30p for Pandora’s Collective‘s Poetic Pairings, a reading series celebrating collaboration, w/ “my” collaborator: Jacqueline Turner
  • Sept 30 at Word Vancouver and for The Maynard, I offered: A talk on The Advantages of Editing an Online Literary Journal; was MC for The Maynard 10th Anniversary Reading; Lead a free-write session
  • Jun 29, 6:30p – Dominion Reading Series, Vancouver, BC
    • Listen to Dominion Reading Series #16, featuring work from all 3 chapbooks
  • Jun 20, 7:30p – Poets Corner Reading Series, Massy Books, Vancouver, BC
  • Jun 17, 12p – Sustenance anthology reading at Dude Chilling Park, Vancouver, BC
  • Jun 2, 1-3p – “Tower of Babel,” w/ Soramaru Takayama | Vancouver Art Gallery, BC
    • Listen to “Tower of Babel” collaborative reading
  • Mar 24, 7p – Casa Libre, Tucson, AZ
  • Jan 26, 7p – Phoenix Poetry Series, Phoenix, AZ

2018 POETRY: Chapbooks published     

2018 POETRY: Individual Poems—literary journals/magazines published!

“Family” | EVENT 46.3; “On the Roof” & “Blood Moon,” | Contemporary Verse 2, 40.3; “Aground,” a poem from Landscape of The Wait (Finishing Line Press, 2017) | The Paddock Review; Featured Poet in Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry No.8; Six poems from A Body in Liberating Strife in Otoliths No. 51; “Looking Down From The Roof Is An Instinctive Act,” a poem from Instinctive Acts (Nomados Literary Publishers, 2018) in descant No. 57, 2018.     

2018 REVIEWS OF: in this space there’s hope for response

2018 INTERVIEWS OF: an interview is a chance to practice the high art of conversation

2018 ESSAYS for Anomalous Press | Blog on Vancouver Arts & Community (2016-2018):           

2018 REVIEWS BY: (for The Maynard (TM) Views Series (review-in-conversation w/TM staff )

2017-YEAR OF THE ROOSTER

2017 EVENTS: In celebration of the publication of my two chapbooks: Mind of Spring and Landscape of The Wait, I offered readings for:

  • Dec. 17, 3p – Gatsby Books, Long Beach, CA ; 
  • Nov. 24, 7:30p – Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal, QC
  • Nov. 15, 12p – Lunch Poems, Simon Fraser University/Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC
    • Listen to the Lunch Poems reading (Nov. 15, 12p) 
  • Nov. 5, 4:30p – The Paper Hound Bookshop, Vancouver, BC
  • Oct. 26, 7p – Twisted Poets/Pandora’s Collective, Vancouver, BC 
  • Oct. 22, 1:30p – Vancouver Writers Festival, Vancouver, BC 
  • Oct. 6, 7:30p – Dominion Reading Series #11, Vancouver, BC 
  • Sept. 24, 11:45am – Word Vancouver, Vancouver, BC        

2017 POETRY: Full-length collection, The Minuses        

  • Semi-finalist w/ Octopus Books
  • Finalist (1/5) for 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award 

2017 POETRY: Chapbooks   

  • Landscape of The Wait, a poetic response to my nephew William’s car accident and year-long coma (Finishing Line Press, June 2017)
  • Mind of Spring: Winner 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award—(October, 2017) 

Before winning the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award, Mind of Spring was 1/5 finalists w/Vallum and 1/14 (out of 250) finalists w/Anomalous Press, and a finalist w/Miel micropress.   

2017 POETRY: Individual Poems:      

  • “President fellow you,” a poem in the ERASE-TRANSFORM Poetry Project—finding poetry hidden in the inaugural speech
  • “Resuscitations,” a prose poem in Minola Review issue 9;
  • “Hunger” | Sustenance—Writers from BC & Beyond, selected by Vancouver Poet Laureate, Rachel Rose

2017 REVIEWS OF:         

  • Review of Landscape of The Wait by Cristina Trapani-Scott (on her blog)
  • Review of Landscape of The Wait at Panoply

2017 INTERVIEWS OF:     

2018 ESSAYS for Anomalous Press | Blog on Vancouver Arts & Community (2016-2018): 

2018 REVIEWS BY: The Maynard (TM) Views Series (review-in-conversation w/TM staff )

2016-YEAR OF THE MONKEY

  • Indivuals poems appear in Blood Orange Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Prism international, Rabbit Catastrophe Review, SITUATE Magazine, and Vallum: Contemporary Poetry
  • Featured poem Vallum Poem-of-the-Week 
  • Featured on Drunken Boat blog–VINTAGE DB 81
    • Here’s what the lovelies at DB had to say about the poem: “If you’re looking for some evocative prose poetry, you’ve come to the right place. This week’s Vintage DB is a stellar work that brings together unique imagery and creative literary devices in the form of a poem by writer Jami Macarty titled, Monsoon Desert.” Originally published in DB 10, (spring 2009), here’s the prose poem’s first sentence: We are what we feel and every day we fear the sun.
  • Birth of: Peerings & Hearings-Occasional Musings on Arts in the City of Glass, an every other month blog series on arts in Vancouver for Drunken Boat.
  • Guest on Wax Poetic radio show/ Vancouver Co-op Radio (CFRO 100.5FM)
  • Winner of the Real Good Poem Prize (a $2,000 purse–now, that’s good for poetry!)
    • Here’s the sweet something contest judge, Kiki Pterosino said about my winning darling, The Minuses : “This piece engages form in an elegant, yet powerful way; its seemingly simple structure of stacked lines, with a sonnet-like turn at line 5, actually moves much more swervingly across the tongue. There’s no assailing the beauty of light-bedecked phrases like, ‘the eye’s aerie,’ as the poem transitions from a contemplation of the heavens to the solid, somehow melancholy weight of an onion in the speaker’s hand. The poem begins in a kind of retrospective pastoral mode that recalls Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey,’ but whereas Wordsworth wants to re-animate his landscape with recalled emotion, the speaker of ‘The Minuses’ turns away from the ecstatic energy of a youthful solitude spent ‘high in the mountains’ in favor of acknowledging the self as ‘one half the equation’ in a troubled, yet essential relationship. This is, perhaps, the harder path, and I admire the poet’s exploration in this fine poem.” — Kiki Petrosino
  • Featured on Brick Books blog-celebration of Canadian poetry-Week 91
  • Finalist (1/6) for the 2016 JMWW Claudia Emerson Poetry Chapbook Award
  • Featured in Vallum 2016 Year in Poetry, Part 1 (alphetical; scroll down)

2015-YEAR OF THE GOAT/SHEEP

2015 POETRY:

  • Individual poems published
    • “Dedication,” “Music 5:30,” “Slow w/ Substance,” “Reverse of Shadow” | Poetry Pacific, Feb ’15
    • “Grounded” | Slant, Summer 2015
  • Acceptance & scholarship
    • 1/12 poets accepted to Banff Centre Writing Studio (5 weeks to write!)

2014-YEAR OF THE HORSE

2014 POETRY:

  • Full-length collection (my first), The Minuses:
    • semifinalist w/Elixir Press
  • Chapbook (my second) Mind of Spring
    • Finalist (1/17) w/MIEL Books
  • Individual poems published
    • “Perception” | Descant, Summer 2014

2013-YEAR OF THE SNAKE

2013 POETRY:

  • Full-length collection (my first), The Minuses:
    • Finalist, Carolina Wren Press
    • Finalist, Kore Press
  • Individual poems from
    • The Minuses (full-length)
      • “This Equation” | Grist 6 (Online Companion), Spring 2013
      • “Self-Incompatible” | Quiddity, Fall/Winter 2013
      • “Street of Beggars” | Arc Poetry Magazine, Spring 2013
      • “You Is to Door as I Is to Door,” Interim, Spring 2013
    • Landscape of The Wait (chapbook):
      • “1st Dream Since” & “2nd Dream Since” | Grain, Spring 2013
    • Other poems published:
      • “Declension” | CV2, Spring 2013
      • “All Measure of Content” | So To Speak, Spring 2013

2012-YEAR OF THE DRAGON

2012 POETRY:

  • Individual poems from The Minuses published:
    • “By Virtue of And” | Beloit Poetry Journal
    • “By Virtue of And” Verse Daily, February 2012

2011-YEAR OF THE RABBIT

2011 POETRY:

  • Full-length collection (my first), The Minuses
    • Finalist, The Lexi Ruditsky First Book Prize, Persea Books