Alabama Poet Jeanie Thompson to Read from New Collection in NYC
Posted: Jun 07, 2009Alabama author Jeanie Thompson will be reading from her most recent collection of poetry The Seasons Bear Us on Wednesday, June 10, at the Happy Ending Lounge in New York City. The reading is part of the Southern Writers Reading Series held every second Wednesday. Thompson will also appear at the KBG Bar in NYC on June 13.
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey has this to say about Thompson's fourth book: "The Seasons Bear Us contains a vivid evocation of what, in our daily lives, is 'underneath and woven through.' These poems are woven through by songs made of desire, ecstatic awareness, and delight in earthly pleasures: the landscape in its beauty and bounty, the body in its blossoming. " Molly Peacock, author of The Second Blush, calls Thompson "a 21st century female Virgil who has been to the dark wood and, more importantly, knows the path out."
Thompson has published three previous volumes of poetry --White for Harvest: New and Selected Poems (River City Publishing, 2001), Witness (Black Belt Press, 1995), and How to Enter the River (Holy Cow! Press, 1985)-- as well as three chapbooks and has co-edited The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers, (University of Alabama Press, 2002) with Jay Lamar. Witness won a Benjamin Franklin Award from the Publishers Marketing Association in 1996.
Thompson holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, where she was founding editor of the literary journal Black Warrior Review. She has taught at the University of New Orleans and the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, as well as in the poetry-in-the schools program in New Orleans and in Alabama. Thompson has also taught with the graduate poetry faculty in the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Writing Program. She has received Individual Artist fellowships from the Louisiana State Arts Council and the Alabama State Council on the Arts and was a Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers Conference 2000. Thompson is founding director of the award-winning Alabama Writers’ Forum, a statewide literary arts organization in Montgomery.
Her awards include state arts council literature fellowships in Louisiana and Alabama, and the University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Artist award for her work as a poet and arts educator. Her poems, interviews with writers, and essays about art and writing have been published in literary journals and newspapers for more than thirty years. She lives in Montgomery, Alabama.
The Seasons Bear Us will soon be reviewed on Swampland along with examples of Thompson's poetry. Check her blog spot to see when she will be doing a reading in your area.
---Penne J. Laubenthal
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