Poetry. "Jeanette Clough's CANTATAS is a gorgeous and heart-breaking book of poems. This collection is in every way a hymnal of possibility for living in our difficult world. Jeanette Clough's poems are inevitably songs of one's place in the world, of one's constantly shifting place in both the natural world and the world desired in one's heart and imagination" - David St. John. Jeanette Clough was born in Paterson, New Jersey and earned a Masters degree at the University of Chicago. Her first book of poems, Celestial Burn, was published by the Sacred Beverage Press of Los Angeles. She lives in Los Angeles and is employed by the Getty Research Institute.

Author City: LOS ANGELES, CA USA

Jeanette Marie Clough is a native of Paterson, New Jersey. After working as a waitress, children's dance teacher, and a librarian on a ship, she went on to receive a Masters degree from the University of Chicago. She currently works for the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Her current collection is Island, from Red Hen Press (2007). Cantatas appeared in 2002 from Tebot Bach, and she is also author of two limited editions, Celestial Burn (Sacred Beverage Press) and a chapbook Dividing Paradise (The Inevitable Press). Among the journals publishing her poetry are Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Nimrod, Ohio Review, Atlanta Review, Poetrybay.com and Pool, and the 1994 and 1996 anthologies published by the Robinson Jeffers Room Poetry Series. She was a prize-winner in the competitions for the Los Angeles Poetry Festival's Fin de Millenium, Spillway's Walt Whitman Call and Response, the dA Arts Center, and the Ruskin Art Club. She edited for Solo, A Journal of Poetry and contributes reviews to Poetry International. Clough co-created the monthly Poem X series in Santa Monica and was a founding member of the Hyperpoets series.