Poetry. Photography.
Jeanne Julian
- On October 3rd, I spoke at a fun "Lunch & Learn" for the Pamlico Writers Group, talking about ekphrastic poetry, creating a poetry manuscript, and outling Poets Laureate of the United States through history, sharing a few of their intriguing works.
News 2019
- My full-length collection, Like the O in Hope, was released in 2019. You may order it from The Poetry Box. Shawn Aveningo Sanders, editor; cover art from a collage by Wilmington, NC, artist Elizabeth Darrow.
- The January 12 meeting of the North Carolina Poetry Society offered an inspirational line-up of readers and presenters: Len Lawson, Jacinta V. White, and Dan Albergotti. At the open mic, I read from Relic and Myth.
- Red Clay Review out of Central Carolina Community College includes three of my poems in their 2019 issue with a music theme: "American Music," "Epithalamium," and "In Her Hands"—the latter written for the annual North Carolina Poetry Society sestina contest years ago. Not a prize-winner, but now published!
- "Fifteen Days of Writing to a Jailbird" is in Poetry Quarterly's spring issue. "Ticketmaster, 1999" is in that journal's winter issue.
- "Mistakes" received an honorable mention in the 2019 North Carolina Poetry Society contest's Mary Ruffin Poole American Heritage category.
- North Carolina Literary Review has nominated my poem "Prelude to Lust" for the 2019 Best of the Net Anthology.
- "The Dead Woman's Suitcase" and "Smoke Jumper" are included in Flying South.
- Kakalak 2019 includes my poems "Salvage Yard" and "The Man Who Took Her Blood."
- Hermit Feathers Review has published two New Bern-themed poems: "Waterway" and "Bayard Wootten." The latter is about a pioneering woman photographer from the river-bordered city.