Poetry. Photography.
Jeanne Julian
- Two of my poems are among over 80 works of photography, illustration, poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction in this new anthology edited by Rhonda Rosenheck.The watercolor cover art was painted by children’s book illustrator Anne Catharine Blake. Rhonda presents the work in six clusters: Noticing, Accepting, Wrestling, Opening, Entwining, and Exuberance. I joined Rhonda and other contributors for a book tour event at the new South Portland Barnes and Noble in August 2024. Order from Exsolutas Press.
- In The Kleksograph 13, January 2024: "Looking for Loveliness" and "Weight."
- Twelve Mile Review, winter 2023, includes "Taking Stock," a persona poem.
- Amethyst Reviewincludes my poem "Preview of Post-mortem."
- The anthology The Power of the Feminine I, vol. 1, edited by Chris Cooper and Donna Biffar (must've been quite the job, since it's over 390 pages) includes my persona poem about pioneering photographer Bayard Wootten in the "Creators" section. "Elisabeth Thible" and "Sleuth at the Seance" are included in Power of the Feminine I, vol. II.
- "Snow Birds" appears in this anthology put together by Eastport Arts Center in Maine.
- Here's a link to a poem that's a eulogy for the late novelist Alfred Kern, one one of my writing teachers: "Mentor" in Streetlight Magazine.
- This year I reviewed two excellent poetry collections, by Ken Fifer and Marcia LeBeau, for The Main Street Rag and Pedestal Magazine, respectively.
- Does It Have Pockets has cool graphics, and in the September 1 issue, two of my poems: "Succulent" and "On Hold."
- My review of Richard Blanco's lastest collection, Homeland of My Body, is in The Main Street Rag, spring 2024.
- "From Away" is in the fall 2024 issue of Main Street Rag. The poem is about adapting to a new place.
- "Shortfall (Family Edition)" was selected as a finalist in Broad River Review's 2024 Ron Rash Awards for Poetry, and appears in the anthology released at the end of the year.
- The themed issue of Synkroniciti (vol.6, no. 4) includes my poem "Recurrence," a meditation on impermanence, the Galveston hurricane of 1900, and climate change. I so appreciate the Featured Artist profile that editor Katherine McDaniel developed.
- My poem "We Are Nature" is included in an online gallery of 1,200 poems, "an American story and literary landscape as sweeping as the ecosystems that inspired it." The gallery is the basis for an anthology, The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders (my poem not among these). This book was originally envisioned to be a companion to the First National Nature Assessment (NNA1). However, the U.S. Global Change Research Program was ordered by the federal government to discontinue their work on the National Nature Assessment, requiring the team of scientists, who are contributing their time and expertise for the public good, to pursue other avenues for continuing and publishing their work. The editors of the anthology are nonetheless committed to releasing it in Fall 2025 from Paloma Press in collaboration with Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and Poets for Science.
- Delightful cover art by Sarah Walko, from Pedestal Magazine issue 93, featuring my review of Joan Barasovska's Orange Tulips.
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