Category: Writing
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Poetry is Not a Luxury
“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name…
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The Artist as Anarchist
“The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.” ― Federico García Lorca
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The Divinity of Creativity
“You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your…
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Eureka! Creativity Changes Your Brain
Eureka! The guy named Archimedes ran nude out of his bath tub to the town once he found out the idea the amount of water displaced from the tub was equal to the volume of the object immersed. That is an example of an intuitive creativity. Creativity had already been a vital force in science…
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Through That Broken Window
“A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world…” ― Alice Walker Photo ©2018, Jen Payne.
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Finding Inspiration
When I told a friend last spring that I was writing a poem a day for National Poetry Month, she asked me how I found the inspiration for 30 poems. “It’s like rummaging around in a junk drawer,” I told her. “You’re bound to put your hands on something!” And sure enough, one April, I…
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Waiting Out the Storm at Rock Garden in Branford
We’re happy to report that the poetry chapbook Waiting Out the Storm can now be found at Rock Garden in Branford. This is a great little shop – and not just for books! This eclectic shop offers a wide variety of items including crystals, rocks, minerals & fossils; jewelry; tumbled polished stones; oracle cards &…
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Labor of Love and a New Book
Three Chairs Publishing is pleased to present our newest title: WAITING OUT THE STORM Poetry by Jennifer A. Payne 5.5 x 8.5, Paperback, 44 pages $15.00 (plus tax + shipping) “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we…
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Poetry Reading at Clinton Art Gallery’s Poetry Place
On Sunday, August 18, The Clinton Art Gallery’s Poetry Place will present a reading by Antoinette Brim, Reginald Flood, and Jen Payne. This will be the fifth reading in the 2019 Sunday Series, which each month draws an extremely enthusiastic audience, who delight in listening to the work of some of the State’s finest poets,…
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Author Jen Payne Featured in International Anthology of Poems
Author Jen Payne’s poem MEASURING WATER BY SOUND has been included in Coffee Poems: Reflections on Life with Coffee published by World Enough Writers. This international anthology contains 167 “richly-roasted, verbally aromatic poems” by poets from 34 states, 5 provinces, and 12 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, France, Ghana, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Singapore, Spain, and…
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New Haven Bioregional Group POTLUCK & POETRY
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 • 6:00 p.m. First Unitarian Universalist Society of New Haven featuring Evidence of Flossing by Naturalist Jen Payne On Saturday, January 26, the New Haven Bioregional Group will host author and naturalist Jen Payne for a poetry reading and book signing featuring her book Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind. The event,…
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