Jean Day

Jean Day is a poet, editor, and retired union activist whose involvement in the San Francisco Bay Area literary scene spans more than four decades. She was executive director of Small Press Distribution in its early days and subsequently worked for many years as associate editor of the interdisciplinary humanities journal Representations. The poems published here are from the sequence “Adamant!” in her new book The Elements, forthcoming from Winter Editions in October 2026. She lives in Berkeley.