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 two poetry collections, In the War (Big Table Publishing) and The Archivist (Big Table Publishing); as well as the multi-media chapbook Fishwife (Whale Sound Press). She’s also released, with composer Sarah Eide, a collaborative CD called Fishwife Tales which is comprised of art songs, accompanied 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, Soul-Lit, Lyre Lyre and in Linebreak's audio anthology Two Weeks. 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.
News:
I'm holding a new Fishwife Poetry Workshop beginning May 24th; theme: Poetry for Page & Stage.
My accompanied recitation "The Air" appears in Issue 3 of Lyre Lyre.
My reading of "Passing Time" at The Improbable Places Poetry Tour was posted as a Mass Poetry Poem of the Moment.
Three poems from my collection The Archivist appear in Soul-Lit, a journal of spiritual poetry.
My CD of art songs, accompanied recitations and rockballads, Fishwife Tales, can be puchased on CDbaby and on iTunes.
