Jean Donnelly

• Name — Jean Donnelly • Occupation — Poet • Education — George Mason University • Awards — National Poetry Series (2000) Jean Donnelly is an American poet.

Jean Donnelly studied poetry at the creative writing program at George Mason University, where she co-founded the journal So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language & Art. Her work appeared in Big Allis, Fence, The Germ, Lingo, Situation, and Volt. She has co-curated the In Your Ear reading series at the District of Columbia Arts Center, and has taught poetry at Georgetown University. She lives in Exeter, New Hampshire.

• "from ANTHEM", Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2002. • "li", Limetree • "Gg", Germ * • (chapbook)

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Jean Donnelly’s debut volume, Anthem, presents an unusually cohesive, finely conceived examination of contemporary American life from the perspective of an innovative, community-minded poet. The poet is also a mother — a fact most often relegated to bio-note relevance but which in this case is actually central to the poetry itself.