WHAT: An Evening of Poetry with Jean Janzen

WHEN: Tuesday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Crill Performance Hall, PLNU campus, 3900 Lomaland Drive

Jean Janzen is a poet living in Fresno, California, who has taught at Fresno Pacific University and Eastern Mennonite University. She is the author of six collections of poetry, the latest entitled "Piano and the Vinyard," and a book of essays on writing, "Elements Of Writing." She received her Masters in Creative Writing at California State University Fresno where she studied with poets Philip Levine and Peter Everwine. Her poems have been published in journals such as Poetry, Gettysburg Review, Image, and Christian Century, and her work is included in numerous anthologies. Among other awards she has received an NEA grant for her poems. Janzen has also written hymn texts which are now included in a dozen new hymnals in the last decade.

Janzen is the wife of a retired pediatrician and mother of four children, and seven grandchildren. For more information on the "Evening of Poetry," call (619) 849-2297. The event is sponsored by the Department of Literature, Journalism and Modern Languages

'This hard earth not our final holding
place after all, but the air
into which we sail,
breath by dusty breaths,
toward a different shore.'

from “Claiming the Dust” by Jean Janzen