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CONTACT

Jeanne's address is jwalker@udel.edu

Jeanne has given readings and talks at book stores, conventions, churches, poetry festivals, and high schools across the country and abroad.  Her university and college audiences include The University of Pennsylvania, The University of Wisconsin, Oxford University in England, Wheaton College, Houghton College, Washington and Lee, Universitatea Babes-Bolyia in Cluj, Romania, Bryn Mawr, Regent University in Vancouver, Westmont and many others.   She has read on the radio and on television and she leads lively step by step workshops, both on poetry writing and on poetry as meditation.    

If you'd like to schedule a reading or a workshop for your group, please email to discuss a fee.  It will vary, depending on travel distance and the length of time you arrange. 

Please plan to order books for the event:

New Tracks, Night Falling
A Deed to the Light

For permission to reprint a poem

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NEWS

Check these out:

Interview

Luci Shaw's interview of Jeanne will appear in the Winter 2010 issue of Image magazine.


On Writing for the Theater

Jeanne's essay on script writing appears in
A Syllable of Water:  Twenty Writers of Faith Reflect on their Art.  (Paraclete Press).    The essays in this book reflect on journal keeping, revising, writer's block, and other issues faced by writers as well as on the crafts of poetry, script writing, memoir, translation, and fiction writing.   


Best American Poetry

Best American Poetry, 2009  includes "Holding Action," a poem of Jeanne's which originally appeared in The Hudson Review.


New Tracks Makes Top Ten List

New Tracks, Night Falling has been named to Image magazine's list of top ten books published in 2009.


Poetry Competition Judge
 

Jeanne served as the judge of the 2010 Evangelical Press Association Poetry Award.



Gathering of Poets

Jeanne's poem, "Praying for Rain in Santa Fe" was included by the artist Ed Colker in Gathering, his tribute portfolio to fifteen poets and their poems in celebration of his fiftieth year at Haybarn Press.   The poems are accompanied by Ed's lithographs.  Colker's art is represented in many private and university collections as well as in major museums such as MOMA and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.  For more details, email.
 


Review

Read a review of New Tracks, Night Falling  (William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2009).  The book is available on Amazon.  


Catch Jeanne Reading Her Work:                       
Listen on line to Jeanne reading poems from New Tracks, Night Falling

Jeanne will be reading live on Friday, July 30 at St. John's College in Santa Fe.  You can also catch her reading live at Truro Chapel in Fairfax, Virginia on September 19th  at 7:30 p.m, and at Taylor University (Indiana) on February 10 & 11, 2011.


ARCHIVED NEWS                               

Hear Mars Hill's Ken Meyers
interview Jeanne.

Read Jeanne's poems on Verse Daily.