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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