LOUIS JENKINS
October 28, 1942 - December 21, 2019
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Louis Jenkins
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Louis Jenkins' poems have been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. He published 14 collections of his poetry. He was awarded two Bush Foundation Fellowships for poetry, a Loft-McKnight fellowship, and was the 2000 George Morrison Award winner. Louis Jenkins frequently read his poetry on A Prairie Home Companion and was a featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in 1996 and at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Aldeburgh, England in 2007.
Louis Jenkins' most recent books :
Collected Poems
publication date October 28, 2023
Will o' the Wisp Books
Bloomington, MN 55437
ISBN 978-0-9793128-9-2
Where Your House Is Now, New and Selected
Prose Poems
published September 1, 2019
Nodin Press, Minneapolis MN
ISBN 978-1-947237-23-0
The Mad Moonlight
Poems
Will o' the Wisp Books, 2019
Bloomington, MN 55437
ISBN 978-0-9793128-8-5
Critical acclaim for Louis Jenkins' work:
"To imagine what it means to be another human being is an
act to love. These are poems written by a great lover of the world. Everything in it that stands alone, unobserved and luminous. Solitary people with their solitary destinies...if there's a native, archetypal American solitude, Louis Jenkins has given us its flavor"
Charles Simic, Boston Review
"Louis Jenkins picks up the scraps of anyday's events and lets them fall deep into the Underworld. You can hear them re-sounding long, long after. I really do love his poems."
James Hilllman
"...the true artist pulls aside some comforting, humanly made veil, so that the face of the universe appears for an instant. Artists as distinct as Goya and Basho do that, revealing a face that unsettles us. I honor Louis Jenkins, who is one of the best poets of his generation, for his ability to do that again and again."
Robert Bly
"...Mr. Jenkins’s language, moving like the flowing of a river through both the shallows and the depths, has a lightness of touch even when it is at its most plainly philosophical. Jenkins’ seemingly modest writing, attuned to close observation of everyday experience, contains, beneath its homely surfaces, larger meanings that glide softly into your mind and heart, like those elusive fish swimming beneath the ice. "
Charles Isherwood, New York Times
Louis Jenkins' poems have been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. He published 14 collections of his poetry. He was awarded two Bush Foundation Fellowships for poetry, a Loft-McKnight fellowship, and was the 2000 George Morrison Award winner. Louis Jenkins frequently read his poetry on A Prairie Home Companion and was a featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in 1996 and at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Aldeburgh, England in 2007.
Louis Jenkins' most recent books :
Collected Poems
publication date October 28, 2023
Will o' the Wisp Books
Bloomington, MN 55437
ISBN 978-0-9793128-9-2
Where Your House Is Now, New and Selected
Prose Poems
published September 1, 2019
Nodin Press, Minneapolis MN
ISBN 978-1-947237-23-0
The Mad Moonlight
Poems
Will o' the Wisp Books, 2019
Bloomington, MN 55437
ISBN 978-0-9793128-8-5
Critical acclaim for Louis Jenkins' work:
"To imagine what it means to be another human being is an
act to love. These are poems written by a great lover of the world. Everything in it that stands alone, unobserved and luminous. Solitary people with their solitary destinies...if there's a native, archetypal American solitude, Louis Jenkins has given us its flavor"
Charles Simic, Boston Review
"Louis Jenkins picks up the scraps of anyday's events and lets them fall deep into the Underworld. You can hear them re-sounding long, long after. I really do love his poems."
James Hilllman
"...the true artist pulls aside some comforting, humanly made veil, so that the face of the universe appears for an instant. Artists as distinct as Goya and Basho do that, revealing a face that unsettles us. I honor Louis Jenkins, who is one of the best poets of his generation, for his ability to do that again and again."
Robert Bly
"...Mr. Jenkins’s language, moving like the flowing of a river through both the shallows and the depths, has a lightness of touch even when it is at its most plainly philosophical. Jenkins’ seemingly modest writing, attuned to close observation of everyday experience, contains, beneath its homely surfaces, larger meanings that glide softly into your mind and heart, like those elusive fish swimming beneath the ice. "
Charles Isherwood, New York Times
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 Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins
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Beginning in 2008, Louis Jenkins and Mark Rylance, Academy Award winning actor and former director of the Globe Theatre, London, began work on a stage production titled Nice Fish, based on Mr. Jenkins poems. The play premiered April 6, 2013 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and ran through May 18, 2013. A revised version of the play was performed at American Repertory Theater in Boston (Jan.-Feb 2016) where, thanks to Mark Rylance and Claire Van Kampen, Mr. Jenkins got a chance to attempt acting. It was a short-lived career. The play then moved to St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York City (Feb.-March 2016). In November 2016 the play opened at The Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End, and ran until February 12, 2017. In March 2017 Nice Fish was nominated for an Olivier award, Best New Comedy, 2017.
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