Thank you, Alaska Women Speak, for accepting my poem “Play Along” for the Winter Social Media issue. As always, I appreciate AWS’ support. Check out this great Alaskan magazine at alaskawomenspeak.org.
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2 Poems: Alaska Women Speak
I am pleased to announce that the latest issue of Alaska Women Speak will feature two of my poems: “The Photo He Kept” and “After the Blitzkrieg.” Alaskans, you can find the latest copy of AWS at your local bookstore. Issues are also available online via the website alaskawomenspeak.org. I am so honored to be a part of this issue!
2 poems
AWS
2 Poems: Alaska Women Speak
I am humbled and pleased to announce that Alaska Women Speak will be publishing 2 of my poems in their upcoming Spring 2007 issue: “After the Blitzkrieg (London, 2002)” and “The Photo He Kept (St. Louis, 2002).” Within Alaska, you can find a copy of AWS at Barnes & Noble, The Homer Bookstore, and at many other fine booksellers. You can also purchase it online at http://alaskawomenspeak.org. Check out all the great works!
Alaska Women Speak Poems
Hi Everyone,
I was just notified that three of my poems will be featured in the next issue of Alaska Women Speak, which features poems about landscapes. My poems include “Dirt,” “Sweat,” and “Thunderstorm.” All these poems are about the landscapes in which I have lived in the past 15 years or so. I will post more when the issue goes to print!
Excited!
Alaska Women Speak: The Call
Hi Everyone!
Just wanted to post that Alaska Women Speak has accepted my fiction story “The Call” for their summer issue. Check them out and see more work from some great Alaskan writers. More details when they go to print!
J.L.
3 Poems Accepted: Alaska Women Speak
Hi everyone! Just got word that Alaska Women Speak has accepted 3 of my poems for their summer issue! The theme for this issue is Lost (and found). My poems focus on brief time in my life, just days after I graduated with my undergraduate degree, when I lost sight in my right eye: Someone May Have Said, The Diagnosis, and All Things Mundane. More details when the issue goes to press!
J.L.
Alaska Women Speak
Hey my Alaskan folks! Alaska Women Speak has just released their Spring 2016 issue: Adventures in Foreign Lands. I have four pieces in this issue. My three poems and nonfiction piece center on my stay in South Korea in 2002-2003. Locally the magazine is available at Barnes and Noble in Anchorage and Fireside Books in Palmer, as well as other stores throughout the state.
Check it out!
Poems: A Greeting at Imjingak, Chaos and Conformity, and Bibimbap.
Prose: A Forgotten War.
Alaska Women Speak
I’m pleased to announce that Alaska Women Speak will publish, along with 3 of my poems, a nonfiction piece of mine called “The Forgotten War.” This piece is about my visit to the DMZ that separates North and South Korea. For all my local readers, these works will be available at Barnes & Noble Anchorage, Homer Bookstore and other outlets throughout Alaska.
Throwback Thursday: The Important Things
This nonfiction piece was published by Alaska Women Speak in its Winter 2015 issue. The theme was “talking over coffee (or tea).” This my first creative nonfiction piece to be published. Enjoy!
The Important Things
It’s been that kind of a day and now, at home, you are faced with a household tragedy: the tea supply has run dry. Not that fancy, loose tea that sits atop of the cupboard by the stove: the rooibos, the jasmine, the gunpowder green. The kind that requires the French press, a teaspoon to measure, four cups of water, and four minutes to brew. No, you are out of the ordinary Red Rose Tea, the one that comes in the bulk 100-count boxes. The ones that are not individually wrapped for freshness. Those are the ones you lack and need.
You leave your husband and the overtired one-year-old who refused to nap today to make the important journey. You travel to the only grocery store in your small town that has this tea. Forget about the decaffeinated version, you want the real thing, and buy two boxes. When you return home, his raised eyebrows, sigh and silent house tell you that he’s succeed in his mission and the child is asleep. You produce the tea, proving you were successful in yours, too.
The evening proceeds like many others do. You select the preferred cups: his, is the plain, white ceramic; yours, the clear glass Starbucks one. You are not fancy. This does not require much decorum. Just two cups of water, a microwave, and two minutes.
After a moment of silence, you turn on the TV. Forget about the Syrian refugee crisis and the falling Dow Jones, you discuss the important things of life over Futurama: like Katey Sagal’s career after Married…with Children ended and how much adults like Disney cartoons, too.
Your tea is the liquor that calms the nerves and re-energizes your soul. The last sip, overly sweet and growing cold after fifteen minutes, gives you the final jolt you need to pack the diaper bag, make the turkey sandwich lunch and check your calendar one more time, before winding down to a short sleep before the day begins again.
3 Poems: Alaska Women Speak
Hi Everyone!
I just was notified that three of my poems will appear in Alaska Women Speak‘s spring issue that will make its debut late next month. All works in the spring issue center on foreign travel. My three poems: A Greeting at Imjingak, Chaos and Conformity and Bibimbap are about my stay in South Korea.
I’m delighted to take part in their magazine again. More details when the issue goes to print!
Jennifer
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