Jennifer Jean has authored two other poetry collections, In the War (Big Table Publishing) and Fishwife (Whale Sound Press). She is also the librettist for the collaborative CD Fishwife Tales, which is comprised of art songs, accompanied recitations and rock ballads. Jennifer received an Agnes Butler Award from the Academy of American Poets; as well, her 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, Tidal Basin Review, The MOM Egg Journal, Megaera, Poets/Artists, and in Linebreak's audio anthology Two Weeks. She is a feature writer for the arts and lifestyle magazine Art Throb, an active member of the committee producing the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and she teaches writing and literature at Salem State University and Endicott College.
For more about Jennifer Jean, visit: www.fishwifetales.com.
Reviews
The Archivist’s taut language reveals the complexity of the human heart. Jennifer Jean has crafted an ambitious narrative of love, family, and the inevitability of human weakness.
~ Susan Rich, The Alchemist's Kitchen
Jennifer Jean’s The Archivist is epic in its scope and daring in its ambition, but conscious of everyday occurrences and small wonders that make our world a place of magic. This collection is a tapestry that displays Jean’s lush, inventive version of Biblical history, each poem its own panel of intrigue. The Archivist is not just a series of persona-driven poems, but a courageous exploration of desire set to—and rebelling against—a well-known story. In the words of one poem, “…there is something inimitable / About joy and reciprocity, / About this art.”
~ Mary Biddinger, Saint Monicaand Prairie Fever
The Archivist organizes, preserves and provides access to a world that easily entangles as it delights in its persistence to fill the senses. Jennifer Jean writes “already, I have filled up every empty jam jar with my supple friends” and she easily could be talking about poetry as art form, which is in full celebration in this wonderful collection.
~ Enzo Silon Surin, Higher Ground
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