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She, skin to skin, is
jupiter cold, gathers me
into her hollows.

—from “Stirring the Ashes”
finalist, 2020 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize

 
 

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Family. Postpartum issues. You can see it in my mother’s face. But the love born among the three of us was true and deep, though Mama and I didn’t always believe it. https://icefloepress.net/talk-smack-to-a-hurricane-lynne-jensen-lampe/
Who knew? Temple Sinai, built in 1901 in St Francisville, LA. I grew up a half hour away and never heard there’d ever been a Jewish community here.
Y’all @cryingcatbooks in Murfreesboro now has a copy of Talk Smack to a Hurricane, my debut collection about mothers, daughters, and mental illness. The people there are very kind and the book selection is incredible. @icefloepress @skylarkbook
From Gregory Orr’s “A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry”—This book changed my poetry AND my life. It dulled, maybe drove out, my fear that a wild imagination = mental illness or instability #poetry #poetrycommunity #men
Sometimes you find a sticky and wonder why you wrote what you wrote
Today’s the day! Preorders start for my debut poetry collection Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press) https://IceFloe press.net/talk-smack-to-a-hurricane-lynne-jensen-lampe/
 

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