Author Archives: Jenny

author, educator, poet

I’m Sitting By the River Reading This

and you should too.

For Father’s Day (a new poem)

Lungs (1) While waiting for a man to finish explaining the significance of the S series for the 2010 models, and how much faster this difference will carry me from here to there, I consider my father’s soft hands guiding the narrow bronchoscope tube down a coal miner’s windpipe, then steering the levee road back

Scots poet Robin Robertson

Reading @ Trinity University, Ruth Taylor Hall Art Gallery Friday April 1 (no fooling!) at 4p.m. Robinson is from the northeast coast near Perth, but has lived for many years in London, where he is currently deputy publishing director for Jonathan Cape. His debut, A PAINTED FIELD, won the 1997 Forward First Book Prize and

V-Day

Okay, I admit it. At first I was a little ho-hum about participating in a staged reading of The Vagina Monologues. (Isn’t that, like, a little mid-90s?) But someone I admire asked me to, and so I said okay. And now, thinking about performing my little bit tomorrow night, along with other Trinity women faculty