Jordan Stempleman
Associate Professor/Kansas City Art Institute
Biography
Jordan Stempleman is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Spilt, which was awarded the 2025 Wishing Jewel Prize for Poetic Innovation from Green Linden Press.
Stempleman is the editor of Windfall Room and the faculty advisor for the Kansas City Art Institute’s literary arts journal, Sprung Formal. From 2011 to 2025, he curated A Common Sense Reading Series in Kansas City, Missouri, and from 2007 to 2025, he served as co-editor of The Continental Review, one of the longest-running online literary magazines devoted to video poetics. He is an associate professor in the Kansas City Art Institute’s Liberal Arts Department and Creative Writing Program.
What is the relationship between Judaism and/or Jewish culture and your poetry?
Familial and spiritual.
Published Works
Spilt (Green Linden Press, 2025)
Cover Songs (The Blue Turn, 2022)
Wallop (Magic Helicopter Press, 2015)
No, Not Today (Magic Helicopter Press, 2011)
Doubled Over (BlazeVOX Books, 2009)
String Parade (BlazeVOX books, 2008)
The Travels (Otoliths, 2008)
Facings (Otoliths, 2007)
What’s The Matter (Otoliths, 2007)
Their Fields (Moria, 2005)
Links to Sample Works
“Everywhere There’s Renewal”: Sixth Finch
https://sixthfinch.com/stempleman4.html
“So Lifelike,”: Mercury Firs
https://www.mercuryfirs.org/8-jordan-stempleman-3-poems
“Walk It Off”: Community Mausoleum
https://www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal/jordan-stempleman-one-poem
