Jennifer's Art and Words

Hi friends, I am pleased to announce my new poetry book, Fruit Box Castles: Poems From a Peach Rancher’s Daughter is available for pre-order from Finishing Line Pre ss . I hope you will find a poem or many that resonate with you. Please support small presses and my goal of selling 55 books by August 15! You can pre-order here . The book will be released in October 2020. Watch for book launch events that most likely be online due to Covid-19. I hope to have an “in the flesh book event” (that includes peach cobbler) when this pandemic dims.  Thank you again for your support and that of a small press. Below are two of my new poems included in the book. The photo of me was taken by Mike Pickering at O’Neill Castle outside of Belfast, Ireland. It is where my Irish ancestors originated. The photo of the fruit stand is on highway 70 out of Marysville, CA where I was born and near where I grew up.   Bountiful   Mom midwifed rows of freestones Late July we’d sit und...

http://www.saclibrary.org/Home/Events/ Enjoy an evening of spoken word and visual presentation from writers who are also artists. Readings will be from their just published  anthology the Sable and Quill, vol. 1. Following the reading, the volume will be available for purchase. 28, Wednesday, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sable and Quill/Word & Visual Presentation & Spoken words @McClatchy Adult

Girl With the Red Bird, water color

The Seattle Salmon Tea Rose (#F6666) Energy forced this play its balanced mix of carotenoids cued by nature’s understudies; enough water, the wrong time temperatures of unseasonable degree. The tea rose stays in character, not to be upstaged by an empty house, January suns suspended from ceilings of fog spotlight this minimalist stage its leafless props devoid of their audience of bees, She delivers her soliloquy not unlike you or I, in our own out of sync performances blooming to false springs. Jennifer O’Neill Pickering