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Jenna Le
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Six Rivers
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A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora
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Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents
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Manatee Lagoon: Poems
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PANK 9
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Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women
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The Best of the Raintown Review
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SRPR, Spoon River Poetry Review, 47.2 Winter 2022
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Star*Line 44.4, Fall 2021
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The Rotary Dial May 2015
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Ploughshares launch reading
After a period of relative dormancy, it was a pleasure to do a flurry of live in-person poetry readings over the past couple months, including appearances at the State University of New York at Geneseo, the Newburyport Literary Festival, and the Ploughshares Spring 2026 issue launch party, of the last of which you can watch a video, here: https://pshares.org/ps/spring-2026-is...
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"He never thought of replying that art is not a ladder — with a curate, as it were, on the first rung, a rector on the second, and a bishop, still nearer heaven, at the top. He never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman
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Jenna’s Recent Updates
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| I think almost all of us, by the time we reach adulthood, completely forget how much complexity there is in we are used to thinking of as "elementary mathematics" (place value, subtraction, multiplication, working with fractions, etc.). Many are incl ...more | |
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| I had these books as a kid, and coming back to them now (in this nice edition), I still think they have value. All the detailed evocations of where the necessities of life came from in 1880s South Dakota -- the fascinating processes for securing food ...more | |
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| This could be read as an inversion of gothic tropes: a woman-authored text with a first-person narrator -- a fatherless girl in her late teens, living at the margins of society -- who becomes involved with a much older man who may have killed his wif ...more | |
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| I have to admit I overall didn't care for this one. I guess it's an interestingly complex use of an alternating pair of unreliable narrators (working within the framework of an epistolary format, no less -- and here the diaries are not only the form ...more | |
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| I read pretty hefty amounts of D.H. Lawrence in my teen years, even the obscure titles -- The Lost Girl was my favorite for a time -- but the detritus of infamy clinging to Lady Chatterley always rather put me off of it. Also, the more you learn abou ...more | |
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| The ending scene is staged with a geometric perfection, revealing that death isn't just that which circumscribes desire, but is the object of desire itself. Death menaces desire, but it also enables it, and is ultimately one with it. This reminds me ...more | |
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| I loved this tale as a kid (Miles Hendon was one of my first literary crushes), and I was happy to find that this book holds up remarkably well when read as an adult. Yes, the plotting is tight, as expertly wrought as that of the most propulsive TV d ...more | |
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| Brideshead Revisted contains some of the most complexly and memorably drawn characters I've ever come across (my first attempt to read this book was many years -- maybe even decades? -- ago, and the character of Charles's father and his ridiculous su ...more | |
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Alejandra wrote: "If I may, Jenna Le, finding you so randomly while updating the bookshelves has made my first week in goodreads. I came across your comment on Plath's 'Drawings' and couldn't take my eyes off of you..."Thanks so much for reaching out with these kind words, Alejandra! And thanks for your interest in Six Rivers and Manatee Lagoon. Happy to be your Goodreads friend.
If I may, Jenna Le, finding you so randomly while updating the bookshelves has made my first week in goodreads. I came across your comment on Plath's 'Drawings' and couldn't take my eyes off of your distinctly thoughtful and enlightened style, from that comment on and on and on. Wow, such a (surgical) precision choosing words, I thought. And then, I read your bio: a B.A. in math and an M.D. and practices in NYC. Just like that, my left brow raises in awe -doesn't happen that often. Thank you for accepting my request :) I really look forward to reading 'Manatee Lagoon' and 'Six Rivers', will let you know when I do!
Regards from Spain,
Alejandra
Dec 26, 2015 02:37PM · flag