[Jehanne Dubrow]

Hi, Everyone.
My first full-length collection, The Hardship Post, winner of the Three Candles First Book Prize, is now available for purchase at Amazon. Hooray!

Also, a second poetry collection has recently been accepted for publication by Northwestern University Press; Stateside addresses my experiences as a "milspouse" and will be published in 2010.

[Quincy Lehr]

Very cool, Jehanne! As I said when you won the prize, there aren't that many of us in our age brackets with books. And everything I've seen of your work indicates that this book should be a damn good one.

Quincy

[Kate Benedict]

How wonderful, Jehanne. And by the way, 'spereans, two of the Stateside poems are in the winter Umbrella:

http://www.umbrellajournal.com/winte...nneDubrow.html

[Tim Murphy]

That's great news, Jehanne. Warmest congrats.

[Julie Kane]

I heard a selection of those "military spouse" poems of Jehanne's read at the Mezzo Cammin reading at West Chester last spring, and they were absolutely magnificent. Afterwards, we were all asking ourselves why there is no strong literary tradition of "war" poems written from the waiting spouse's point of view--it seems like such a natural subject, and yet our minds kept drawing blanks as to precedents (other than Homer's Penelope). Congratulations on both books, Jehanne!

[Susan McLean]

I too was impressed by the military spouse poems you read at West Chester. Congratulations on the books! To have two so close together is terrific.

Susan

[Jan D. Hodge]

"...why there is no strong literary tradition of "war" poems written from the waiting spouse's point of view--it seems like such a natural subject, and yet our minds kept drawing blanks as to precedent."

There is this from Dorothy Parker:

................Penelope

In the pathways of the sun,
....In the footsteps of the breeze,
Where the world and sky are one,
....He shall ride the silver seas,
........He shall cut the glittering wave.
I shall sit at home and rock;
Rise, to heed a neighbor's knock;
Brew my tea, and snip my thread;
Bleach the linen for my bed.
........They will call him brave.

[Jehanne Dubrow]

Quincy, Kate, Tim, Julie, and Susan - Thanks so much for your kind words. I'm very excited about both books, but I'm especially glad that Stateside found a home.

Jan - Here's a funny coincidence. At one point, lines from that very Dorothy Parker poem served as an epigraph for the second section of the book (which is written from the point of view of an American Penelope), although I eventually removed the quote.

[Janet Kenny]

Jehanne,
Some poets make us want to read more of their work. You are definitely in that group. Congratulations!
Janet

[Catherine Chandler]

Jehanne,
This is wonderful news. Congratulations!
Cathy