So my dearest Ada Limón glitterated/curated poems at The New York Botanical Garden Orchid Show last night. Isn't that the craziest thing ever? I saw pictures of her and the girls riding around in a golf cart. She included a poem of mine in the show, from my first book. Here are the brilliant Trish Harnetiaux and Heather Grossmann standing next to it...and it's as big as a billboard! Life just keeps getting crazier, but in a good way!
From the Shippensburg University Slate! Thanks, Slate, for making me sound not so stupid!
KHOI Community Radio's super smart morning show "Local Talk" let me into the studio this morning to read a few poems from the new book! You can listen to the broadcast at noon or 7 p.m. or stream it anytime.
Whoa-ho! Thank you, Mike Kilen, for this awesome profile in the The Des Moines Register and Michael Zamora for possibly the best pics of me in existence!
I hope to see you next Wednesday at 7 pm in the Old Main Chapel at Shippensburg U! I'll be reading poems, and you'll be rocking out, hopefully! Thanks, Nicole Santalucia, for having me!
This poster makes me look like I'm running for student council!
Well, this is a cool Danish surprise!
"The sovereign grip Jennifer L. Knox 'new collection of poetry is that she uses the traditional news media and new social media chaos of information as a kind of free association. She brings the many different fragments from the big world together in its own little universe where they turn into new fragments."
Part 1 of the 2016 Poetry Crush Valentine Issue with Bianca Stone, Timothy Liu, Steven Leyva, Joe Hall, Loren Erdrich, Joanna Penn Cooper, Brynne Rebele-Henry, Lauren Gordon, Vanessa Gabb, and Cheryl Quimba!
By Bianca Stone
It's one of my first and still favorite mags. And I'm in excellent company, too: Michael Klein, Natalie Shapiro, Dean Rader, William Logan, Matthew Lippman and so many more!
Lookit all that fine writin'.
"Knox’s humor is the kind of funny which is surprising, generous, and vulnerable, and which demands generosity and vulnerability from the reader. This is the kind of funny we have found in writers as various as Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, and Kenneth Koch, as well as in many of the contemporary writers included by Stephen Burt in the modern “elliptical” mode. Absurdism, surrealism, camp, bait-and-switch, jiggery-pokery: the kind of funny, you don’t get what you paid for, you can’t sell it on. It’s the humor, not the gravity it supposedly punctures, which makes Days of Shame & Failure worthy of our attention, all the way through."
Thank you, Ailbhe, for such a brilliant, expansive read!
