JARRETT
MOSELEY
Jarrett Moseley is the author of the forthcoming collection Rehumanization Litany (University of Arkansas Press, 2027), chosen by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series, and the chapbook Gratitude List (Bull City, 2024). His second collection, As If I’d Never Been Destroyed, was a 2026 National Poetry Series Finalist. Winner of the North American Review’s 2026 James Hearst Poetry Prize selected by Danez Smith, his poems have also won awards from the Baltimore Review and The Academy of American Poets. Individual poems have been published in Ploughshares, AGNI, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. He currently reads for the New England Review.
Patricia Smith Description of Rehumanization Litany
“If you were mesmerized by Kaveh Akbar’s seminal Calling a Wolf a Wolf, this should be the next book on your list.”
“Jarrett Moseley describes ‘litany’ as ‘a way of speaking and re-speaking humanity back into lives that have too often been reduced to statistics or silence.’ This blistering and insightful volume does exactly that, pulling us into the fevered world of the addict with its particular language of grief and overwhelm, and chronicling the tenuous process of renewal. If you were mesmerized by Kaveh Akbar’s seminal Calling a Wolf a Wolf, this should be the next book on your list. There are a myriad of stories here, a ragged but resolute Greek chorus on several uncertain paths to recovery.”
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My second full-length poetry collection, As If I’d Never Been Destroyed, was a finalist for the 2026 National Poetry Series.
Danez Smith selected my poem, “Micropsia”, as winner of the 2026 James Hearst Prize for the North American Review.
I was a finalist for the 2026 Missouri Review Editor’s Prize, and my poem was published on their website.
My debut chapbook, Gratitude List,
is now out with Bull City Press!
From the website:
“Gratitude List is a series of interconnected prose poems that follows a group of friends in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol. In poems that dive fully into the grief of losing loved ones to addiction, the intimacy of communal healing, and the challenges faced within that healing, Gratitude List portrays the everyday lives of recovering addicts and the tenderness formed between them in recovery.”