CW/TW: links are provided for some of JodiAnn's work below. Please be advised that some of the content in these works explore mature themes of various forms of abuse and other trauma. Readers are encouraged to avoid work that may be triggering of their own trauma and to take good care of themselves.
CURRENT RESEARCH

​Difficult to Modify: A Polyvocal Poetic Inquiry
exploring weight stigma in health & fitness spaces
This video provides a roughly 8-minute audio performance of the final product of a pilot study completed for JodiAnn's doctoral-level Integral Research class in the Fall of 2022 at California Institute of Integral Studies. There are no images shown during this performance -- it is strictly audio. 

Following the performance, this video contains a narrated slide presentation that provides an outline and brief synopsis of the pilot study as well as JodiAnn's plans to widen the scope of this work while completing her dissertation.
FEATURED WORK

Marina Abramovic Is My Mother:
a semi-fictional, poly-vocal, performance memoir
Marina Abramovic is My Mother is a semi-fictional, poly-vocal, lyrical/ performance memoir that positions JodiAnn Stevenson as one of the (many) cultural daughters of well-known performance artist Marina Abramovic.

This ekphrastic piece responds to Abramovic's retrospective and individual work, "The Artist is Present" which took place at MOMA in 2010. Stevenson explores the inherent difficulty and anxiety of being born an artist into a family and culture that does not value such a being while addressing the need to find one's own artistic and/or cultural family. 

A complete performance of this piece is available wherever you listen to podcasts. 
EXPERIMENTS

Poetic Inquiry, Visual Poetry, Spoken Word & Other Hybrids:
work from Bowl of Milk & Beyond

Click the image to go to the experiment, more experiments available on bowlofmilk.com

PODCAST PROJECTS

Real Rebel Health

2020. So far, one Season of 13 episodes exploring the self-care benefits of shifting toward Body Liberation.

Bad Dog Annex

2023. So far, one episode that walks listeners through JodiAnn's themed mixtapes.

QPU

2018: So far, 7 episodes of a course called FitPoetry, short daily meditations on health, fitness & self-care.

About Time

2019: So far, 3 episodes of 2 middle-aged American white ladies (who have since turned 50yo) talking about Body Liberation.

MAIMM

2018: A complete 8-episode performance of JodiAnn's manuscript by the same title.

BLOG PROJECTS

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The QueenPrincess Says

2013-2020

The Bad Dog Rebel Blog

2020-2022

JodiAnn, not Jodi

now

Broken Nose Chapbook Collective
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Stevenson co-founded the Broken Nose Chapbook Collective with poet, Jeremy Benson, in 2012. Each year, Benson & Stevenson create and exchange small-batch, chapbook-length poetry collections, broadsides and/or book art projects with a revolving group of 12-25 fellow poets, each dedicated, in their own way, to continual creation.

Published Poetry Collections

The Procedure
​March Street Press
2006
Houses Don't Float
​Habernicht Press
2011
Diving Headlong Into A Cliff
​Of Our Own Delusion
​Saucebox Books
2012

Podcast Appearances

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Episode 018: Body Positivity
Episode 10: Undoing the Harm of Diet Culture

Published Articles

Are you serving shame at your family's dinner table?
Kids and weight: A shift in thinking

Featured Readings

  • “Women Who Create: The Feminine and the Arts” London Arts Based Research Centre, at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 2023
  •  International Conference on Poetry Studies, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of London, London, England, 2023
  • Exquisite Corpus, Here:Say Storytelling, Traverse City, Michigan, 2020
  • Napa Knockout with Broken Nose Chapbook Collective, Napa, California, 2019
  • Poetry in the Pines at Dow Gardens, Midland, Michigan, 2018
  • Poetry Jam for LGBT Week at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan with Amy Mattison & Andrea Gibson, 2011
  • REFER, Buffalo Poetics Program Series, Buffalo, New York with Sarah Peters & Gina Myers, 2011
  • Scarab Club Reading, Detroit, Michigan with Mike Sikkema & Gina Myers, 2010
  • Court Street Gallery, Saginaw, Michigan with Ben Somers & Robin Brox, 2010
  • Buffalo Small Press Bookfair Marathon Reading, Buffalo, New York with other participants in the Small Press Bookfair, 2010
  • Bay City Monthly Reading Series, Bay City, Michigan, a Ms. Fish reading, from a blurred-genre manuscript about a character by the same name, 2009
  • Court Street Gallery, Saginaw, Michigan with Kate Greenstreet, 2009
  • Home Sweet Home Reading, New York, New York with Gabriella Torres, 2009
  • The Stain of Poetry Reading Series, Brooklyn, New York With Emily Kendal Frey, Phil Memmer, Jeni Olin, and Zachary Schomburg, 2009
  • Incubation: The Third TrAce Symposium on Writing and the Internet, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England. Performed “Bowl of Milk, Live,” an orientation to my website of visual poetry, www.bowlofmilk.com, 2004

Other Publications

  • Poem, “A Thousand Birds” published by Nassau Review, 2012​
  • Mixed-genre piece, “Kamikaze Death Poetry” appeared in the Faux Histories volume of Specs, 2009
  • Broadside for poem, “This is the Problem” published by Lame House Press, 2009
  • “Footnotes for What is Happening Somewhere” appeared in Abjective, an online showcase of experimental writing, 2009
  • “Insert Title Here” appeared in Ballard Street Poetry Review, 2009
  • Poems “Furthermore, I Feel, I Am Not Worthy of Your Compassion,” and “Almost Nothing” appeared in Breadcrumb Scabs, 2008
  • Featured poet in Hiss Quarterly’s Annual NC-17 Issue, 2007
  • Prose Poetry Collection, The Procedure, published by March Street Press in Greensboro, NC, 2006
  • Poem “A Conversation We Had About Jesus” published in The Strange Fruit, a print journal, 2006
  • Visual poem, “Remember to Learn From Your Mistakes” published in BathHouse magazine, 2006
  • Poem “The Question” appeared in InkPot No 6, 2006
  • Guest refereed article in Convergence:  The International Journal of Research and New Media Technologies Online, The University of Bedfordshire, Luton:  Sage Publications, UK, 2006
  • 3 nonfiction vignettes from a memoir manuscript called “Her Usual Uneasiness” appeared in Big Bridge, an online journal, 2005
  • Prose poem, “The Best Expectations” appeared in Big Bridge, an online journal, 2005
  • Prose poem, “Hysterical” appeared in PoemMemoirStory, Number 5, a print journal from University of Alabama, 2005
  • Short story, “More Than Anything Else in the World” published by Hiss Quarterly, an edited online journal, 2005
  • Poem, “Postpartum” published by S/Z, an edited online journal, 2005
  • Poem “How the World Will Take Her” published in Buckle&, a print journal, 2004
  • Artwork, “Glorious Ruins,” used as cover art for the first annual Clockhouse Review literary magazine, 2004
  • Poem, “The Place Where I Kiss You,” accepted for publication in upcoming issue of Whalelane at (just before whalelane became defunct), 2004
  • Visual works, “The Problems of Philosophy” and “IT” published in January issue of BathHouse Magazine: A Journal of the Hybrid Arts, at www.emich.edu/studentorgs/bhouse, 2004
  • Poems, “The Letter About Finding and Losing My Way by Your Lantern,” “We Logic,” and “The Machine” appeared in December, 2003 issue of Tin Lustre Mobile at www.poeticinhalation.com/v316, 2003
  • Poem, “In Translation” appeared Sun-spinner, an online literary journal, 2003
  • Poem, “No One Here Knows What to Do,” appeared in Spring 2003 edition of Mangrove, the University of Miami’s Literary Magazine, Coral Gables, Florida, 2003
  • Poem, “We, The Emperors,” appeared in Spring/ Summer, 2003 issue of Phantasmagoria, Century College’s Literary Magazine, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, 2003
  • Poem, “What We Wanted Words For,” chosen for publication in upcoming issue of Poetry Motel, Duluth, Minnesota, 2002
  • Poems “Pancho Villa I Mi Bisabuelo,” and “The Cleaving Hits Home in Midwestern Cold Weather Blues by Muddy Waters” appeared in Winter, 1996 edition of the Silverfish Review, Portland, Oregon, 1996
  • Poems “The Moon Quakes,” “Molest, A Haiku,” and “How to Choose a Cigar and Read Cuba By Pablo Medina” appeared in July, 1996 edition of Do or Donut, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1996
  • “Harvest Moon,” a poem, appeared in Juggernaut, The University of Michigan’s Residential College’s Literary Magazine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1995

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