Jenny Browne

The Bad Wife Handbook - Rachel Zucker’s fantastic new book of poems

A Year to Live - Stephen Levine (thanks Hondo Dave!)

The Art of Simple Food - Alice Waters (Simple, HA!  But all worth it so far.)

six poetry manuscripts from my Gemini Ink class

Because Why - Sarah Fox  (Don’t know what took me so long to get to this one, a knockout!)

Lunch Poems - Frank O’Hara  (…for the nth time, never the last)

Gulf Music -Robert Pinsky  (try “Poem With Lines in Any Order”)

Moveable Types - Jenny Boully (a slow sigh, the good kind)

Maureen Dowd (as the kids say, LOL) 

What’s on your list? 

Don’t miss the Artists for Obama gathering this Thursday, 2/28 from 6-8 pm at Ruta Maya!  Where else can you get organic coffee and good beer and have part of the cost donated to the Obama campaign? Nowhere. Where else can you get Cruz Ortiz to silkscreen your T-shirt with an original Obama graphic for $5?  Nowhere. Where else can you share your words about where our country has been and where we are going before a crowd of other creative and enthusiastic Obama voters?  Nowhere. Nowhere. And where else can you read Barack’s own poems and hear his speeches put to music?  Well, that would be here and here.

Trinity’s Lennox Seminar Series, “Cultural Transgressions of the Immediate Kind,” is partnering with the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center to bring Pat Mora to San Antonio this Monday evening, 2/18, @ 7pm.   Opening and closing music by Azul.   

Come hear Susan B.A. Somers-Willett read her poems, Wednesday, 2/13 @ 7 

The author of two collections of poems,  a former member of Austin’s Poetry Slam team and a critic who has written and spoken extensively about performance poetry, Somers-Willett is a versatile, lively and smart-as-hell poet. Trinity students Amanda Flores and Paul Wade will open.  

The Tiger’s Den is downstairs in the Coates Center.  Best place to park is in the Alamo Stadium parking lot just off of Stadium Drive.   Directions here. 

The Associated Writing Programs conference descends on NYC this weekend.  That means some 7000 (!) writers, new books and journals to buy and way too many good readings all scheduled at the same time. 

So, if you are in New York, come on.  I’m doing a signing for The Second Reason and reading with a bunch of folks from the amazing Not For Mothers Only anthology on Saturday night.  Fence Books party following the reading. Details below:

Jenny Browne Booksigning
Saturday, February 2, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
UT Press/ Tables 206 and 207,
Americas Hall I, 3rd floor
Hilton New York & Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers

Not for Mothers Only Anthology Reading
Saturday, February 2, 7pm
NYU Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th Street
(between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas)
Free and open to the public.
Featuring poets Lee Ann Brown, Gillian Conoley, Beth Ann Fennelly, Miranda Field, Annie Finch, Akilah Oliver, Alicia Ostriker, Molly Peacock, Eleni Sikelianos, Anne Waldman, Zhang Er, Rachel Zucker, and more