Poetry. "How does Jean LeBlanc make her poems so comfortably alive? Her candor, yes. Images already there. Full of surprise, but amiably free of shock. She is one of us, being singular. Such a pleasure, then, to enter and re-enter her world, poem after poem, and to share in the canny play of her language, to follow the casual gambits of her agile mind as she turns the commonplace on its ear. On her ear. I laughed out loud. I'm so pleased. I ache with the unexpected familiarity of her feelings. Her fancies. I find I am thinking of her as Jeannie. Look out! Look out! It's like falling in love again. I'm going to read AT ANY MOMENT, one poem a day, to my wife"—Edward Lueders.

Author Hometown: ANDOVER, NJ USA



About the author: Jean LeBlanc was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and now lives in rural Sussex County, New Jersey. In third grade, she wrote her first poem, an ode to a mushroom; she hasn't stopped writing or reading since, despite a brief foray into the field of biology in college. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Lullwater Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Modern English Tanka, Modern Haiku, Community College Moment, and The Kerf. Her poems are also included in The Muse Strikes Back (Story Line Press, 1997) and in The Final Lilt of Songs (South Mountain-Watchung Poets, Inc., 2008). She is the editor of the anthology Voices from Here (Paulinskill Poetry Project, 2009).

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