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GREAT READINGS PLANNED FOR APRIL!

3/23/2018

Hello Poetry Fans,

I hope you will think about coming to upcoming readings. I’ll read poems from my latest book, Almost Entirely, and some new poems inspired by travels near and far.

April 12 7 pm at Barnes and Noble bookstore in Charles Village 33rd & St. Paul Streets Baltimore, MD 21218
410.662.5850

April 14 at a “New Releases” panel at the wonderful 2018 CityLit Festival, which will be held at the University of Baltimore this year.http://citylitproject.org/index.cfm?page=news&newsid=206

Please try to come and tell your friends!

Happy spring,

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March 14th, 2018

3/14/2018

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Chicago Tribune Review by Barbara Mahany
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/sc-books-spiritual-roundup-0214-story.html Thank you, Barbara Mahany....and be sure to read the whole review, also featuring books by Meera Lee Patel & Margaret Dulaney

Jennifer Wallace’s poems, gathered here in “Almost Entirely” — a collection that toggles between the sacred and profane, faith and doubt, love and unrequited love — clearly earns comparisons to such masters as Scott Cairns, Mary Oliver and Christian Wiman — as well as the claim to her own poetic country.
A poet, photographer, and teacher living in Baltimore and rural western Massachusetts, Wallace edits poetry for The Cortland Review, and her religious orientation is described thusly: “after decades of avoidance and experimentation, she decided in her 50s to get serious about her spiritual practice and is now, mostly, happily settled within her Christian roots.”
What pulses through these prayer poems, besides an abiding knowledge of grief coupled with a palpable faith in the afterlife, is the residue of Catholic imagery, a childhood of nuns and priests and Latin prayer. Any one of Wallace’s poems might be a morning’s meditation or analeptic on a sleepless night.
Consider this haunting stanza, from “Requiem,” her seven-part poem: “Perhaps we are here to make of earth a minor heaven / where birds will glide higher / in an air made more full / by the dead’s barely audible sigh.”

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Jennifer Wallace is a poet, photographer and teacher living in western Massachusetts. Paraclete Press published her new book of poems, Almost Entirely, in November 2017 and will publish a second collection, Raising the Sparks, in 2021

After decades of avoidance and experimentation, she decided in her 50's to get serious about her spiritual practice and is now, mostly, happily settled within her Christian roots.

GREAT READINGS PLANNED FOR APRIL!

March 14th, 2018

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