Portrait of the Artist as a Dead End
Don’t Pay Me4
for River Phoenix
Jillian A. Fantin is an MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame. They are the recipient of a 2021 Poet Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and they regularly collaborate with Chicago-based mixed media artist Kate Luther. Jillian’s poetry is published in or forthcoming from The American Journal of Poetry, TIMBER, Harpur Palate, The Daily Drunk, wind up mice, Selcouth Station, Homology Lit, and elsewhere.