Lesley Jenike's Blog, page 11

This album is really scary good. It's refreshing to hear ...

This album is really scary good. It's refreshing to hear a British woman play and sing with the breadth and depth of the Brit-folk tradition behind her.

I've had the privilege of visiting two of the most beauti...

I've had the privilege of visiting two of the most beautiful college campuses this summer.

Please excuse my unadulterated glee in the post below--!!...

Please excuse my unadulterated glee in the post below--!!!!!!!!! Not to mention I get to panel (yes, it's a verb) with Amy Lemmon of UC fame and Matt Donovan whose extraordinary Vellum has long been a favorite of mine.

Anyway, in retrospect you discover, piece by piece, like a dream coming back to you, what you keep from an experience, and what you throw away.

Besides the wonderful talk Bob Hass gave, a few great readings (mainly by Sewanee fellows !), the French House, and sharing a bathroom wi...

One last update: see what happens when you speak too soon...

One last update: see what happens when you speak too soon?? Yay!!!

How Everybody is Doing Everything: Writing and Teaching in Art Schools
Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Eric E Olson, Amy Lemmon, Lesley Jenike, Beth Concepción, Matt Donovan

Once thought of as places that only produced artists and designers, art schools increasingly have become places that teach writing and produce writers. Not just ateliers where poets and painters rub elbows, these institutions are laboratories of culture with their own p...

Oh no. My sources tell me it's Chicago again in 2012. Cra...

Oh no. My sources tell me it's Chicago again in 2012. Crap. I'm NOT doing a COOL SANDBERG, that's for sure.

So it looks like another AWP will roll around without my ...

So it looks like another AWP will roll around without my participating in it (unless at the last minute some kind journal plucks me from my obscurity and asks me to read off-site. And at least I know I can now attend the Sewanee alum party and feel justified...)

So I've suddenly decided to be a little proactive and start on Boston 2012 now! I don't usually like to assume I'll still be alive that far into the future, but (spit spit to ward off the evil eye) I guess I will be, and I'd like to pr...

So Kristi and Michael are moving away and due to our own ...

So Kristi and Michael are moving away and due to our own weeks and weeks of travel, I'm afraid we just can't make it back down again this weekend (sorry guys). Kirk and Amber are gone. Erica's in Tampa. Oh! We're scattering! The end of an era!

Be quiet. Let me weep a little.

Yes, I took the Sewanee posts down. (I'll comment more on...

Yes, I took the Sewanee posts down. (I'll comment more on that later.) Yes, I'm home and Josh is too. One month till the bomb drops, so make the most of it, kids!

My husband is safely perched at Byrdcliffe in Woodstock. ...

My husband is safely perched at Byrdcliffe in Woodstock. I guess we're going to close on our house sale this Thursday? Maybe? I have a birthday on Friday. I come back to Columbus on Monday so I can move into a new office at work, then back to Cincinnati on Wed. so my mom and I can fly to Charlotte, NC to see my brother and his family. Then back to Cincinnati on Sunday so on Tuesday I can get in my car and drive down to Sewanee where I will study with Mary Jo Salter, and party with Erica, Jill...

I'm oddly worried Pope is becoming popular somehow, just ...

I'm oddly worried Pope is becoming popular somehow, just when I was happy with myself for liking such a fundamentally uncool guy.