This Saturday's Iowa City Book Festival!

I'll be reading with Ryan Collins at 11:30 Prairie Lights Bookstore, followed at 2:30 by a panel discussion, "A Sense of Place," with Henriikka Tavi, Shenaz Patel, Amanah Mustafi and Ryan Collins at the Robert A Lee Recreation Center, Social Hall. Hope to see you there!

Big stuff in IC!

Big stuff in IC!

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National Park Poetry

I'm thrilled and honored to have been commissioned to write this poem. I'm a HUGE NPS fan. This year we did Bryce, Zion, The Grand Canyon, and Isle Royale, and today, we're off to the Effigy Mounds! The Imagine Our Parks project by the Academy of American Poets is funded by a National Endowment for the Arts.

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Jennifer L. Knox is a writer and teacher with 20+ years experience working with non-profit organizations

Welcome! Click here to visit Iowa Bird of Mouth, a crowd-sourced poem honoring twelve Iowa birds. With support from the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, the project ran from September 2016 through August 2017. Over 750 people from all over the world contributed their words to the project. My essay on the process of creating and executing IBOM appeared in the 2018 June/July edition of American Poetry Review. CONTACT.

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Like 10,000 shots of espresso before 8 am!

Forget espresso! Tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. Iowa time, rise and shine and get some kicka$$ poetry at Poetry Extension's international online reading series, with Salena Godden, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Sarah Howe, Kathryn Maris, Andrew McMillan and me!

http://www.thepoetryextension.com/

http://www.thepoetryextension.com/

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Iowa Bird of Mouth is open for submissions!

Iowa Bird of Mouth is open for submissions (two days early, but what the heck?)! written in any style—from rhyming, metered verse, to free-flowing prose, to an actual memory—or even just a one-word thought.

"Crow-d sourced!"

"Crow-d sourced!"

We seek the words and stories of bird lovers, bird watchers, writers, artists, musicians, teachers, students, scientists, non-profits, federal and state organizations, environmental stewards, and nature lovers from around the world—regardless of age, education, publication history, location or writing style. This is open source-text, for use in non-commercial projects. Lay some bird-related poetry on us, peeps!

 

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