Jake Rogers

Jake Rogers teaches English at Saint Elizabeth University in New Jersey, where he is advisor for the campus lit mag The Community Quill; he attended Hood College and earned his MFA at Drew University. His poems have appeared in Half and One, Shot Glass Journal, Stardust Review, Rise-Up Review, Garden Oak Press's "Tribute to the COVID-19 Experience" anthology, and Arts by the People's "Moving Words" project.

Ode to the Ants I Once Tried to Build Homes For

By Jake Rogers / September 15, 2026

outside the house that sheltered my becoming. Beside the tree that was never big

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Easter at Joshua Tree

By Jake Rogers / July 22, 2025

In the desertevery scrap of lifeseems more impressivesomehow. Tenacious,mutated, mutilated by the ceaseless sunto survive by

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