For
Immediate Release
Date: April 8
2008
Contact: Melissa Smith,
Community Relations
802.375.2589, ext. 147 ~ smithme@bvsu.org
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802.375.6070 ~ smith209bh@verizon.net
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Poet
Louis Jenkins in
A familiar voice
on National Public Radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” Jenkins poems have been
published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. In an interview
with Gina Temple of “RipSaw News,” Jenkins spoke of the artist’s journey towards
fulfillment. “To write poetry, to paint, to write music, is to try to say
the unsayable. If it isn’t beyond you, then it isn’t worth doing.”
Noted American
poet Robert Bly says of Jenkin’s work, “Most people writing prose poems now
agree that Louis Jenkins is the contemporary master.” Charles Simic of the
Boston Review is also an
admirer. “The most complex things can be said in a few words. This
is what poets believe. It’s what makes a poet a poet. There are
extraordinary images that can tell someone’s whole life story. Jenkins
shows us again and again that this is possible.”
The recipient of
two Bush Foundation Fellowships for poetry, Jenkins was honored with a
Loft-McKnight Fellowship and received the 2000 George Morrison Award and
Minnesota Book Award. Arlington Poetry and English teacher Hank Barthel
invited Jenkins to speak. “Louis Jenkins prose poetry is both
intellectually complex and easily understandable. He is a great teller of
truth and a great writer of poetry.”
For more
information about Jenkins’ poetry reading, contact Barthel at barthelh@bvsu.org
or 375.2589. You can visit the AMHS website at
www.arlingtonmemorialhs.bvsu.org. The