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Summer Reading

Jenny — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:18:53 +0000

Summer means less running, and much more reading. My stack of recent keepers includes.

Memory and Enthusiasm – W.S. DiPiero

The Lost Alphabet – Lisa Olstein

To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill: ed. Michael McGriff

The Wedding Dress – Fanny Howe

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination With The Afterlife – Lisa Miller

Nothing Happened And Then It Did – Jake Silverstein

Burn Lake – Carrie Fountain

Waking the Tiger – Peter Levine

The Anthologist- Nicholas Baker

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress – Rhoda Janzen

Transparent Gestures – Rodney Jones

Texaco – Patrick Chamoiseau

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto – David Shields

Upcoming

Jenny — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:18:16 +0000

First Thursday Reading - April 1, San Antonio Central Library (with Jesse Amado and Vocab) 6:30pm

Saturday – April 10 - 6:00PM Reading and Book Party for the Starting Today Anthology
Paris on the Platte Cafe, 1553 Platte Street, Denver, CO

More than twenty contributors from the Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days anthology will read their poems and celebrate the release of the book. Readers include: Matt Rohrer, Sarah Vap, Cole Swenson, Catherine Wagner, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, John Gallaher, Laynie Browne, Matthew Zapruder, Sasha Steensen, Michael Dumanis, Martha Collins, Craig Morgan Teicher, Erika Meitner, Allison Joseph, Erin Belieu, Rachel Zucker, Patricia Smith, Jenny Browne, Lesléa Newman, Katy Lederer, Lindsey Wallace, Dara Wier, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Pimone Triplett, Robin Beth Schaer, Tony Trigilio , Catherine Barnett, Patrick Culliton, Patricia Spears Jones, Nicole Cooley, Cate Marvin, Michael Morse, Prageeta Sharma and Mark Bibbins.

Just 1.0

Jenny — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:14:42 +0000

“We are drowning not in a sea but in a swamp of words.” -Octavio Paz

Doe, a Deer

Jenny — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:02:37 +0000

Brand new poem up at Zocalo Public Square. Thanks Collette.

Anti-me

Jenny — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:48:36 +0000

Thanks to Steven Schroeder, and to my favorite peoples Jilly and D., for making Anti-,

and for publishing this poem.

the multiple states of a poem

Jenny — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:15:04 +0000

Thanks to the Bat City Review for first publishing this poem, and to Verse Daily for putting it on their site, and to Lyle Seeligson for naming her dog Eggroll.

TONIGHT: 1 reading, 3 poets

Jenny — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:50:30 +0000

There will be wine.

There will be snacks.

Come on out!

HOA NGUYEN

MARCIA ROBERTS

KATE GREENSTREET

MONDAY, NOV, 9 @ 7pm

Holt Conference Center

Trinity University Campus

Poetry Flash Video

Jenny — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:45:50 +0000

While I find it rather difficult to listen to myself read poems and laugh very loudly, perhaps you won’t.

Regardless, thanks to John Rhodes for bringing his camera.

upcoming

Jenny — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:05:22 +0000

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2009, 3:00
Poetry Flash at DIESEL, A Bookstore
JENNY BROWNE & CHERYL DUMESNIL
Jenny Browne’s most recent book of poems, her third, is The Second Reason; Nick Flynn says of it, “. . .wild and beautiful and surprising. In this poet’s hands the seeming mundane is transformed into the nearly sacred, the elemental reveals its inner mysteries, and scraps of overheard language dissolve into song.” Her two previous books are At Once and Glass. She is also the editor ofProvide and Protect, Writers on Planned and Unplanned Parenthood. She’s a former Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.
Cheryl Dumesnil’s first book of poems, In Praise of Falling, is the winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Michael Waters says of it, “Cheryl Dumesnil passionately and at times irreverently approaches the consequences of desire. . .a debut of extraordinary transparency and generosity.” She is the editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall and co-editor of Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.
DIESEL, A BOOKSTORE, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, (510) 653-9965, dieselbookstore.com. Near Rockridge BART.
For more information, Poetry Flash: (510) 525-5476.

Split This Rock

Jenny — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:44:34 +0000

Thanks to Patricia Smith and the hard-working Split This Rock poetry folk for choosing The Center for the Intrepid as one of the winners of their poetry contest.