Jenny Browne

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.

Like the Universe

Jenny — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:24:06 +0000

A recording of my poem “Like the Universe” is featured on KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio. Much thanks to Elizabeth for her thoughtful attention to the poem.

Summer Reading (and Listening)

Jenny — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:04:12 +0000

It’s summer!

This means I’m finally working my way through the stack of poetry books by my bed.

So far, the hits include:

John Casteen’s Free Union, Idra Novey’s The Next Country, and Devin Johnston’s Sources. More to come.

Also, after talking to the lovely Elizabeth Austen about one of my poems on the phone this morning, I spent an hour listening to the wonderful poetry pieces she does for KUOW Public Radio in Seattle, including this one, a rebuttal by the wonderful Lucia Perillo to the equally wonderful Auden poem Musee de Beaux Arts. Have I said wonderful enough times in this paragraph?

It’s summer!