Jean Donnelly
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American poet Jean Donnelly is the author of Anthem selected by Charles Bernstein for the National Poetry Series and the julia set, a chapbook. She studied poetry at the creative writing program at George Mason University, where she co-founded the journal So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language & Art. Her poems have appeared recently in Verse and Boog City. She lives in Exeter, New Hampshire with her children.
from Anthem
Montana predicts
the height of chairs
& the sunflower genus
lodged in a gritty
window postcard
bottom filled creek
of usual farewells
merchants say
good-bye too their
burden of witness
is collaboration
an air of darning
houses kid engines
a metaphysical flag
it pulls & whittles
my starry pledge
outside the trees
are empty
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- Review of Anthem by Brian Henry. Jacket. February 2003.