Poetry. Part of Smokeproof Press' Emerging Authors series, A VALENTINE TO FRANK O'HARA by Naropa graduate Jeni Olin, includes three long sections: Beginning With a Line From Ashbery, Mothers of the Disappeared and The Day Allen Died. Jeni Olin was educated at Oxford, Cambridge and Appalachian State, as well as The Naropa Institute. She is the editor with Cedar Sigo, of the poetry magazine Old Gold.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Jeni Olin lives in Manhattan where she rages in "posh isolation" with her maltese dog Good Times. Jeni received her BA & MFA from Naropa University. Her first full-length book BLUE COLLAR HOLIDAY was published by Hanging Loose in 2005. Her most recent publications are a chapbook of pharmaceutical sonnets about antidepressants titled THE PILL BOOK from Faux Press, 2008, and the full-length book HOLD TIGHT: THE TRUCK DARLING POEMS from Hanging Loose Press in 2010. She is currently working on a manuscript called EVERYBODY LEAVES. Also she is changing her name to Truck Darling and her friends call her truck.