Dubrow, Jehanne 2017
We dreamed of glowing children,
their throats alive and cancerous,
their eyes like lightning in the dark.
– Jehanne Dubrow, “Chernobyl Year”
Read this interview with Jehanne Dubrow from the American Literary Review:
Obsession and Resistance in Poetry: An Interview with Jehanne Dubrow
Obsession and Resistance in Poetry: An Interview with Jehanne DuBrow Interview conducted by Sebastian Paramo Jehanne Dubrow is a prolific poet whose work is visceral and rich with the language of the senses. Her sixth book of poems, Dots & Dashes, won the 2016 Crab Orchard Review Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and will be published…
And flickering beyond the fence,
we’ll see the slatted lives
of strangers. The light
above a neighbor’s porch
will be a test of how we tolerate
the half-illumination
of uncertainty
– Jehanne Dubrow, “Syllabus for the Dark Ahead”
Watch this visual depiction of one of her poems:
The Long Deployment by Jehanne Dubrow
On 11 November, 2015 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments – Videopoems In honor of Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, and in the U.S., Veteran’s Day, here’s a poem by Jehanne Dubrow adapted by Nicole McDonald for Motionpoems, whose monthly email newsletter describes it as “a love letter to all who’ve had a loved one overseas.”
