Selected Publications

New Jersey’s Lit: an Anthology
Rutgers University Press (forthcoming).

Affliction Parish and other poems
Narrative Magazine

The Profiteers, 1867 and other poems
Spoon River Poetry Review

The Revenant Quarrels with Weather
storySouth 

 “The Lament of the Swamp Hag
Mom Egg Review 

 “The Debutante’s Ball
No, Dear Magazine 

Shy Island
Section 8 Magazine

 “The Flâneuse, or Woman Pendue
Paris, Etc: An Anthology

 “Wetlands: Barataria Bay, Louisiana
Podium Magazine

Witness, The Levee
Slice Magazine

“’When Are We Not Grieving?” 
The Adroit Journal

Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work
Frog Magazine 17

“As she articulates the failure of the so-called American Dream, Barnes invites us to imagine and to create a new American reality.”

—Amy Klein, Poetry Northwest

Listen to Wendy read from her debut collection at Dodge Poetry Festival

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