Jenny Browne

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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!