Cliterature
 

Janean Williams is currently pursuing a M.F.A in fine art and M.A. in contemporary art theory at the San Francisco Art Institute. She serves as the co-curator of SFAI’s Swell Gallery. This spring, she exhibited in Woman as Photographer: Documenting Life as a Woman at the MPLS Center, Minneapolis, MN and Labyrinth 2011, Roanoke VA. Her visual and literary works disrupt the established narratives of gender, power, and sexuality. Ms. Williams’ poems have appeared in Van Gogh’s Ear, The Chiron Review, Shampoo, Third Wednesday, Hazmat Review, Zen Baby, Vulcan, and others.

Janean Williams

Jane Eyre moment

 

I was feeling like your

crazy wife in the attic,

though you were

on your cell phone with the actual one,

anyway—

 

I was in black and blue,

with a barbed wire heart spitting

fire round my neck.

I was feeling white-hot

for the husband below—

 

the fictional moment of you,

at odds

with the gloom outside, so

very viande and white-collar

so unlike the other,

with his face scarred

and overcast.

 

but hey,

Jane and I need to

break out of unachievable ardors,

they’re boring and overdone

and beneath us both.
"Excellen!!!!" Mario Guerrero, Neuquen, Argentina (9/26/2011)
"Beautiful." Kowalski, Jersey (9/26/2011)