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Jenna’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Jenna’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Happy Holidays!
Wishing a happy, healthy holiday season to all my Goodreads friends!
If you're itching for a poetry break from all the holiday hecticness, I'm pleased to have new poems published this month in a variety of wonderful periodicals that can be read online, including Able Muse , Bad Lilies , JAMA , and The Orchards . In these poems, you'll find squid and sculpture, wisecracks and woodcuts, t Read more of this blog post »
If you're itching for a poetry break from all the holiday hecticness, I'm pleased to have new poems published this month in a variety of wonderful periodicals that can be read online, including Able Muse , Bad Lilies , JAMA , and The Orchards . In these poems, you'll find squid and sculpture, wisecracks and woodcuts, t Read more of this blog post »
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Since Dangerous Liaisons Daily worked out so well last year, I felt ambitious and signed up for Les Mis at https://lesmisletters.substack.com/about . Will I actually be able to finish? Time will tell.
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"In my judgment, what the world stigmatises as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed." It is interesting to think of Helen's courtship story -- which takes place in 1821, i.e., during the reign of George IV -- as ...more |
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"Everything was salvaged, some by the right hands and some by the wrong, but nothing was simply lost." A formidably surefooted evocation of three characters living in joyful equilibrium for the duration of one summer: a young girl, an old woman, and a ...more |
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"I regret that I have not the talents of a thief. Should these not, in fact, enter into the education of a man who is mixed up in intrigues? Would it not be agreeable to filch the letter or the portrait of a rival, or to pick from the pockets of a...more |
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Here is the blurb I wrote for this chapbook: This collection of poems about a cancer patient’s journey vividly conjures the universal anxieties of the human condition as it confronts the simultaneous crises of bodily frailty and ecological precarity. ...more |
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