In order to grasp what his life is like,
to see it and cherish it, you would need a song,
a song only a god could bear to hear.
to see it and cherish it, you would need a song,
a song only a god could bear to hear.
Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke
Even though the poet Jenne’ R. Andrews is easily distracted and has interspersed a literary career with raising Golden Retrievers and goats in Colorado and Minnesota, drinking gallons of red wine, adventuring with renegades and misfits and sustaining numerous falls from Arabian mares, the most recent of which has put her in a wheelchair and a walker for the duration, her poetry has appeared in Ms., The American Poetry Review, The Ontario Review, The Colorado Review, The Seneca Review, The Bloomsbury Review, New Mexico Humanities Review, the infamous long gone The Little Magazine and The Lamp in the Spine, regional Colorado and Minnesota magazines, and several online publications including Poets for Living Waters.
Resumption of her literary career after twenty odd years of raising dogs and horses has not been terribly productive yet, but her two-pronged strategy of building readership with this blog as well as sending work to journals has born a bit of fruit: a poem appears in the fall issue of The Adirondack Review, and work is forthcoming in The Belletrist Coterie. An essay, A Bowl of Red, is included in Oil and Water and Other Things That Don't Mix, LL Publications 2010, an anthology benefiting victims of the BP Oil Spill. A four-part interview by Maureen Doallas of Jenne' Andrews appears in the July 2010 archives of Writing Without Paper.
In 2010 she wrote and published to its very own blog, mastering Blogger's complicated template tweaker, Nightfall in Verona: A Lyrical Memoir—an account of a consummate Italian adventure in 1973, praised by beta reviewer and old friend Caroline Marshall, editor of the NPR anthologies Listening to Ourselves, as “fabulous.” It was in fact, Ms. Marshall who with her sister Julia, squired Andrews to Europe in the first place, for the proverbial adventure of a lifetime.
Resumption of her literary career after twenty odd years of raising dogs and horses has not been terribly productive yet, but her two-pronged strategy of building readership with this blog as well as sending work to journals has born a bit of fruit: a poem appears in the fall issue of The Adirondack Review, and work is forthcoming in The Belletrist Coterie. An essay, A Bowl of Red, is included in Oil and Water and Other Things That Don't Mix, LL Publications 2010, an anthology benefiting victims of the BP Oil Spill. A four-part interview by Maureen Doallas of Jenne' Andrews appears in the July 2010 archives of Writing Without Paper.
In 2010 she wrote and published to its very own blog, mastering Blogger's complicated template tweaker, Nightfall in Verona: A Lyrical Memoir—an account of a consummate Italian adventure in 1973, praised by beta reviewer and old friend Caroline Marshall, editor of the NPR anthologies Listening to Ourselves, as “fabulous.” It was in fact, Ms. Marshall who with her sister Julia, squired Andrews to Europe in the first place, for the proverbial adventure of a lifetime.
Not incidentally, her collections include the chapbook In Pursuit of the Family, Minnesota Writers’ Publishing House, Robert Bly and Patricia Hampl, Editors, 1974, Reunion , Lynx House Press, Christopher Howell, Editor, 1987, and the chapbook The Dark Animal of Liberty, Leaping Mountain Press, John Bradley & James Grabill, Editors, 1990. Her work has also been included in a number of regional anthologies.
Andrews is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature, the Minnesota Arts Board Award, was short-listed for the Bush Foundation award (now the Jerome Foundation) and a number of academic scholarships and teaching assistantships; she earned advanced degrees (M.A., M.F.A.) in creative writing at Colorado State University Colorado
She lives in Colorado not far from her companion of twenty-one years, the Texas novelist and teacher Jack Douglas MacArthur Brooks, consorting with Brooks most evenings and playing with their two Golden Retrievers, two Jack Russell terriers and a fluctuating number of yellow tiger cats.
