Tag: CT Poet

  • The Sound of Crickets

    The Sound of Crickets

    Did you know that each issue of MANIFEST (zine) includes a Spotify playlist especially curated for readers? For the CRICKETS issue, I had fun playing off the themes of silence, finding one’s voice, and creating from the heart. It features an eclectic set of songs by artists like Disturbed, Grace Carter, Barry Manilow, John Mayer,…

  • WHAT’S THAT? Manifest (zine): Crickets

    WHAT’S THAT? Manifest (zine): Crickets

    MANIFEST ZINEIssue #4, Cricketsby Jen Payne Storytelling is in our DNA says Brené Brown in her book Rising Strong. We share our stories because “we feel most alive when we’re connecting with others and being brave with our stories.” That process, she explains, causes our brains to release cortisol and oxytocin, the chemicals that “trigger…

  • NeW! MANIFEST (zine): CRICKETS

    NeW! MANIFEST (zine): CRICKETS

    MANIFEST ZINEIssue #4, Cricketsby Jen Payne Storytelling is in our DNA says Brené Brown in her book Rising Strong. We share our stories because “we feel most alive when we’re connecting with others and being brave with our stories.” That process, she explains, causes our brains to release cortisol and oxytocin, the chemicals that “trigger…

  • MANIFEST (zine): What’s Old, What’s New, What’s Coming

    Emily Fletcher, author of the awesome book Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performance, writes “When we create something — whether it’s dinner for a friend, a presentation at work, a self-published memoir, or a new company — we’re stepping into the unknown and making ourselves vulnerable by putting into concrete terms something we…

  • On Sale Now: Waiting Out the Storm

    On Sale Now: Waiting Out the Storm

    WAITING OUT THE STORM Poems by Jennifer A. Payne 5.5 x 8.5, Paperback, 44 pages ISBN: 978-0-9905651-4-7 $15.00 (plus tax + shipping) Poems on death, grief, and gratitude, written from the shoreline of Connecticut and the wide and windswept beaches of Cape Cod. Dedicated to the memory of MaryAnne Siok.

  • New Poetry Chapbook Explores Death, Grief & Gratitude

    New Poetry Chapbook Explores Death, Grief & Gratitude

    Three Chairs Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of its newest book, Waiting out the Storm, a collection of poems about death, grief, and gratitude by Branford writer Jen Payne. Reflecting on the sudden loss of a close friend, Payne returns, as she does in her past books LOOK UP! and Evidence of Flossing,…

  • Labor of Love and a New Book

    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…

  • Do you see what I see?

    Do you see what I see?

    Check out artist Mark Dion’s New England Cabinet of Marine Debris currently on view at the Florence Griswold Museum. “Equal parts performance, documentation, and environmental clean-up, Dion and his assistants traversed the New England coast to gather rubbish washed up on the shores. The refuse was cleaned and categorize like cherished relics. The display references…

  • Author Jen Payne Featured in International Anthology of Poems

    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…