Laura Linnea Jensen

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Occupation Poet Role Poet Name Laura Jensen		Nationality American Language English

Notable awards 1989 Guggenheim FellowshipNEA fellowshipWashington State Arts Commission grant Education University of Iowa (1974), University of Washington Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Bad Boats, The Kitchen Guide, Memory, Shelter, The Story Makes Them Wh

Laura Linnea Jensen (born November 16, 1948 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet.

She graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she studied with David Wagoner, Mark Strand, and Galway Kinnell, and from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA in 1974, where she studied with Norman Dubie, Donald Justice, and Marvin Bell. She became friends with Tess Gallagher.

Her work appeared in Ploughshares. She read at Burning Word 2005. She lives near Wright Park, Tacoma, Washington.

Awards

1989 Guggenheim Fellowship

NEA fellowship

Washington State Arts Commission grant

"Sarge"; "Steve Allen", Salt River Review, Volume 6, Number 1, Winter, 2002–2003

"The Red Dog", Nothing to Say and Saying It, September 6, 2006

Shelter Dragon Gate, 1985 ISBN 978-0-937872-28-4

Memory, Dragon Gate, 1982, ISBN 978-0-937872-02-4; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-88748-456-8

Bad boats, Ecco Press, 1977; ECCO Press, 1984 ISBN 978-0-912946-39-9

Sky Empty of Orion, 1985

The Story Makes Them Whole, Porch Publications, 1979

Tapwater: poems, Graywolf Press, 1978

Anxiety and ashes: poems, Penumbra Press, 1976

After I Have Voted, Gemini 1972

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