Laura Linnea Jensen

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

Works

• "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
• Memory, Dragon Gate, 1982, ; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006,
• Bad boats, Ecco Press, 1977; ECCO Press, 1984

Chapbooks

• 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

References

External links

• Author's blog
• Joe Anistranski: “Laura Jensen’s Bad Boats”, Contemporary Poetry: a web symposium Spring 2006
• "Bad Boats by LAURA JENSEN, Recovered by JASON STUMPF", Octopus Magazine, Issue 7
• "A Shelter, A Kingdom, A Half Promised Land: Three Poets In Mid-Career", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1987, pp. 426–436