Three Some Poems
Jeannine Dobbs, Kinereth Gensler & Elizabeth Knies
Jeannine Dobbs's poetry begins in a bleak, pinched childhood—details remembered without bitterness, but remembered—and out of it she works toward
a quiet, attentive joy far more convincing than angry proclamation."
—Rosellen Brown
"Gensler's poems, remarkable because they do not focus solely on the self, are open to the objects, animals and places they describe."
—Choice
"Elizabeth Knies writes with lyrical poise and transparency. In some of the finest poems she approaches the brave and effortless clarity we associate with
the ancient Chinese poets. These are generous poems, the eye prized always on the immediate and therefore on what is genuine—and always searching."
—Patricia Hampl
about the authors
Jeannine Dobbs has a Ph.D. in English and an M.A. in Language and Linguistics from the University of New Hampshire. She has taught ESL at all levels in university, public school and adult education programs. Her articles on teaching ESL have appeared in the TESOL Journal and College ESL, and her book Using the Board in the Language Classroom was published by Cambridge University Press.
Kinereth Gensler grew up in Chicago and Jerusalem. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her M.A. from Columbia University. She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and taught in the Radcliffe Seminars for more than twenty years. In addition to her three volumes of poetry with Alice James Books, she was co-author with Nina Nyhart of The Poetry Connection, a text for teaching poetry writing to children.
Elizabeth Knies is the author of five collections of poetry, including The New Year & Other Poems (1975); From the Window (1985); The Unstopped Heart (1992); and White Peonies (2001). A native of Pennsylvania, she won the Sarah Homer Prize for Creative Writing from Allegheny College, her undergraduate alma mater. After completing a master's degree in English Language and Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire, she taught for two and a half years at Shoin Women's University in Kobe, Japan. Subsequent teaching positions took her to Missouri and Colorado. Her reviews of film, drama, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, The Missouri Review, and Portfolio. In 1998 - 99, as a teaching fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, she earned a master's degree in Creative Writing. She now lives in Kingston, New Hampshire.
also by kenereth gensler: journey fruit and without roof
