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CONTACT

Jeanne's address is jwalker@udel.edu

Jeanne gives readings and talks at book stores, conventions, churches, poetry festivals, and high schools across the country and abroad.  Her university and college appearances 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 College in Vancouver, Westmont and many others.   She has read on the radio and on television and she leads lively step by step workshops on poetry writing, on poetry as meditation, and on writing for the theater.    

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 contact jwalker@udel.edu

For Jeanne's home page

NEWS


New And Selected Poems.  Word Farm Press will bring out a volume of Jeanne's new and selected poetry in 2012.


Also Check these out:

100 Years of Poetry Magazine

"Little Blessing for My Floater," published in Poetry in 2004, has been chosen for the anthology celebrating Poetry's first 100 years:  The Open Door:  100 Poets, 100 Years of PoetryPoetry magazine is the premier magazine publishing poetry in the United States, the first publisher of such poets as T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens.



Food


Jeanne's reflection on Produce Junction and recipe for scalloped potatoes appear in The Spirit of Food.  It will be reprinted this winter in The Other Journal.  Hear Steve Shoemaker's November 2010 interview with Jeanne and editor, Leslie Leyland Fields, on public radio.


Leaping From the Burning Train

Read the essay in Ascent. 


Read A Deed to the Light on Kindle

The University of Illinois Press will soon bring out A Deed to the Light as an e-book.


More Food

Hear Jeanne's poem, "Jesus and the Cabbage," and an interview with Sojourners magazine. 


New Poems and Essays

Look for Jeanne's new work in The Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, The Christian Century, The Cresset, Poetry East, and Image.

Interviews

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

Jeanne's interview of Marilyn Nelson appears in the current issue of Image magazine.


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 was named to Image magazine's list of top ten books published in 2009.


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


ARCHIVED NEWS                               

Hear Mars Hill's Ken Meyers
interview Jeanne.

Read Jeanne's poems on Verse Daily.

"Praying for Rain in Santa Fe" appears in Gathering, artist Ed Colker's celebration of 15 poets to mark the 50th anniversary of Haybarn Press in 2010. 

Jeanne's tips on writing for the theater, "The Steep and Exhilarating Mountains of Play Writing," appear in A Syllable of Water:  Twenty Writers of Faith Reflect on Their Art.