SINCE 2002

"Holding Action," published by The Hudson Review, summer, 2008, and reprinted in New Tracks, Night Falling, was selected for Best American Poetry, 2009.

 Jeanne hosted a WHYY Television documentary on poetry in Pennsylvania, one of six programs in a series called Arts Alive.  The documentary was taped on March 29, 2007 in the WHYY studio in front of a live audience.  It has been broadcast and rebroadcast on TV and will appear on webcast. 

Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Prize for Poetry, 2007, $1,500.

Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, 2007. 

“Geese, Tree, Apple, Leaves,” nominated by Kaleidowhirl for On Line Poem of the Year.

A Deed To The Light nominated for the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize by The University of Illinois Press.

University of Delaware General University Research Grant for Summer, 2006.

“The Queen’s 2 Bodies” chosen for The Women Playwrights Project by Centenary State Theatre, Hackettstown, New Jersey.  The play was given 1 week of rehearsal with professional actors and director, followed by staged reading, April 5, 2006.

Pennsylvania Center For the Book selected “So Far, So Good,” to print as a poster and distribute statewide to schools, post offices, state government buildings, and prisons, 2005.  

Achievement Award from The Conference on Christianity and Literature for serving as Poetry Editor of Christianity and Literature from 1985-2005, Presented by John Cox, President of The Conference, at MLA, December 29, 2005, Philadelphia, PA. 

Reader’s Choice Award for four poems published in Prairie Schooner, Winter 2003, announced in Prairie Schooner, Spring, 2004 issue.  $250 Award and Press Release.

“Little Blessing For My Floater” appeared in Poetry’s WHO KNEW brochure advertising Poetry magazine, 2004.

Appointed Commonwealth Speaker, Pennsylania Humanities Council, 2004-present.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting, 2004.

Winner, Utah Shakespeare Festival Competition, “The Queen’s 2 Bodies:  The Double Life of Elizabeth I,”  Honored with Play Development and Production at The Utah Shakespeare Festival, summer 2003.

International New Play Showcase, “ The Queen’s 2 Bodies:  The Double Life of Elizabeth I,” Interact Theatre, Philadelphia, in Collaboration with The Eugene O’Neill Festival Theatre.  The play was given a week’s development and a staged reading before an international audience of directors, actors, and literary managers, Summer 2003.

Twelve nominations for The Pushcart Prize in Poetry.