Lightning Shades traverses the mysteries of existence from the ambiguities that lie within our inner lives to the liminal spaces we occupy throughout life and death sleeping and waking growth and decay and all the paradoxes that abound within those realms. Jessica Raschke’s poetry holds us tenderly as it explores how we are haunted and haunting.…

Enter The Beguilings, a seductive world of striking poems that break through the confines of expectations in love, intimacy and identity. By turns illuminating and provocative, Jessica Raschke’s second poetry collection reveals connections and collision points between sensual and spiritual needs. Raschke’s writing is testimony to the beautiful truth of emotion and the pleasures of relinquishing…

Jessica Raschke uses words as shards, reflecting fragmented emotional states. Her poems glisten with confidence as they ricochet between the abstract and deeply felt. But feelings are seen as capable of deception and, like reflections in a mirror, they are reversed and distorted. Despite a strong feeling for ambiguity, Raschke’s poems hold a certain intimacy…