jenniferjean
fish wife tales
“The aim of the poet and the poetry is finally to be of service...”
~Seamus Heaney
Jennifer Jean is the author three poetry collections, In the War (Big Table Publishing), Fishwife (Whale Sound Press), and The Archivist (Big Table Publishing). She’s also released, with composer Sarah Eide, a collaborative CD called Fishwife Tales which is comprised of art songs, recitations and rock ballads. Jennifer's poetry, essays, literary interviews, and reviews have been published in numerous journals, including North Dakota Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Awakenings Review, Santa Clara Review, Southern California Review, Caketrain, Relief Quarterly, Wilderness House Review, Endicott Review, Tidal Basin Review, Poets/Artists, The MOM Egg Journal, Megaera, and in Linebreak's audio anthology Two Weeks. As well, she is a feature writer for the arts and lifestyle magazine Art Throb; her poem "Fishwife with Child," as set to music by Sarah Eide, won the 2011 Curtain Up! Prize; her long poem The Legend of Liban the Merrow was a finalist for the 2010 Firewheel Chapbook Award; and, she's received an Agnes Butler Award from the Academy of American Poets. Jennifer is an active member of the committee producing the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and she teaches writing and literature at Salem State University and Endicott College.
News:
My third collection The Archivist can now be purchased at The Chapbook Store.
My CD of art songs, accompanied recitations and rockballads, Fishwife Tales, can be puchased on CDbaby and on iTunes.
My poems "Passing Time" and "The Prisoner" appear on pages 97-100 of this summer's issue of Tidal Basin Review.
My poem "Getting to Know You" appears on page 65 of this summer's issue of Poets/Artists.
Whale Sound published my chapbook Fishwife as web-based text & audio, PDF, e-book, CD & print edition.
