Laura Linnea Jensen
Laura Linnea Jensen (born November 16, 1948, in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet. She graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she studied with David Wagoner, Mark Strand, and Galway Kinnell, and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in 1974, where she studied with Norman Dubie, Donald Justice, and Marvin Bell. She became friends with Tess Gallagher.
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Laura Linnea Jensen
- Name
- Laura Linnea Jensen
- Born
- November 16, 1948
- Birthplace
- Tacoma, Washington
- Occupation
- Poet
- Education
- *University of Washington in Seattle
- Awards
- *1989 Guggenheim Fellowship
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- poetry
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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Her work appeared in Ploughshares. She read at Burning Word 2005. She lives near Wright Park, Tacoma, Washington.
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• Name — Laura Linnea Jensen • Born — November 16, 1948 • Birthplace — Tacoma, Washington • Occupation — Poet • Language — English • Education — *University of Washington in Seattle • MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974 • Awards — *1989 Guggenheim Fellowship • NEA fellowship • Washington State Arts Commission grant
Works
Works
• "Sarge"; "Steve Allen", Salt River Review, Volume 6, Number 1, Winter, 2002–2003 • "The Red Dog", Nothing to Say and Saying It, September 6, 2006 • Shelter Dragon Gate, 1985 • Memory, Dragon Gate, 1982; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006, • Bad boats, Ecco Press, 1977; ECCO Press, 1984
Chapbooks
Chapbooks
• Sky Empty of Orion, 1985 • The Story Makes Them Whole, Porch Publications, 1979 • Tapwater: poems, Graywolf Press, 1978 • Anxiety and ashes: poems, Penumbra Press, 1976 • After I Have Voted, Gemini 1972
Awards
• 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship • NEA fellowship • Washington State Arts Commission grant
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- 1.Publications, Europa. International Who's Who of Authors. Taylor & Francis. 2004. 9781857431797.
- 2.Washington.edu. Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest.
- 3.Pshares.org. Laura Jensen.
- 4.David Rizzi, xaM Systems. Washington Poets Association-Burning Word 2005. Washingtonpoets.org.
- 5."Lives of the Poets: Laura Jensen", Poetry Foundation, Heidi Broadhead 9.23.09
- 6.Es.gf.org. Laura Linnea Jensen - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- 7.Poetswest.com. Poets And Poetry - PoetsWest Directory E-L.
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