Laura Linnea Jensen
Laura Linnea Jensen (born 16 November 1948 Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet.[1]
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.[2]
Her work appeared in Ploughshares.[3] She read at Burning Word 2005.[4] She lives near Wright Park, Tacoma, Washington.[5]
Awards
Works
- Shelter Dragon Gate, 1985 ISBN 9780937872284
- Memory, Dragon Gate, 1982, ISBN 9780937872024; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780887484568
- Bad boats, Ecco Press, 1977; ECCO Press, 1984 ISBN 9780912946399
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
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