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Her second collection, "Nightcrown," a crown of sonnets in collaboration with photographer Michael Downend, was published as a limited edition lotus book in 2003. Her play, "The Hem of the Garment" was chosen for the 2002 Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska with Edward Albee. A Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Roster poet, Jennifer conducts poetry residencies and workshops throughout the state and recently in Ireland.</div> <div>   <IMG SRC="24bccd50.jpg" border=0 width="204" height="213" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> She lives in Kingston, Pennsylvania with her daughter Helen.      </div> <bR> <div> Jennifer's web site:  <A HREF="http://www.wordpainting.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.wordpainting.com/"><U>www.wordpainting.com</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="book_of_days"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Book of Days</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="23718b60.jpg" border=0 width="280" height="438" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I>Jennifer Hill-Kaucher's </I><I>Book of Days is local and present. Much of it feels diary-like, a life being recorded in a book of hours by a woman at night. The imagery in these pages is sensual, lush with dahlias, marigolds and peonies. And also honest. As a poem ironically titled "Omission" ends, you can almost feel the gloves sliding off.</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>- Lola Haskins</B></div> <div> <B>Author of </B><I><B>Desire Lines (BOA Editions, 2004)</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Book of Days Contents</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sunday</B></div> <div> Muse</div> <div> Advent</div> <div> Trees of Play</div> <div> Wreath</div> <div> Hymnal</div> <div> Late Summer Inquiry</div> <bR> <div> <B>Monday</B></div> <div> Good Morning</div> <div> Migratory</div> <div> Cribsheet</div> <div> Trefoil Sonnet for Girls</div> <bR> <div> <B>Tuesday</B></div> <div> Chant-A-Go-Go</div> <div> To Coffee</div> <div> Eight Strings</div> <div> Reading Othello and Watching a Girl</div> <div> Skip Rope</div> <bR> <div> <B>Wednesday</B></div> <div> Typeset</div> <div> Omission</div> <div> Listen Daughter, Laughter</div> <div> Manual Alphabet</div> <bR> <div> <B>Thursday</B></div> <div> Surface Tension</div> <div> Study of Two German Figures</div> <div> Pose</div> <div> Ash and Scar</div> <div> Vanishing Point</div> <div> Relationship</div> <div> Specifics</div> <bR> <div> <B>Friday</B></div> <div> To a Young Poet</div> <div> Critical Analysis of Poetry</div> <div> Interview</div> <bR> <div> <B>Saturday</B></div> <div> Flint</div> <div> Heart</div> <div> Lightness</div> <div> Landscape with Six Characters</div> <div> After Sappho</div> <div> Hourkiss</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>From the book:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sunday</B></div> <bR> <div> Sunday scrapes the meatloaf off the plates,</div> <div> replaces door hinges.</div> <div> Letters are stamped, weeds pulled,</div> <div> books read in the slipknot</div> <div> of autumn light. Sunday afternoon</div> <div> twists his noose around our necks.</div> <div> Under which floorboard of the house</div> <div> does that insistent cricket live?</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Omission</B></div> <bR> <div> I write to you on cream paper with a watermark,</div> <div> the kind that comes with lined envelopes</div> <div> packaged in a box with a flat satin bow.</div> <div> My script rolls in the safety of April as I tell</div> <div> you about things you already know - how spring</div> <div> connects the dots to form its landscape.  The pages</div> <div> fill quickly, the way strong women taught me.</div> <bR> <div> I take an entire paragraph to describe the flowering</div> <div> dogwood outside my kitchen window, how I am drawn</div> <div> to the morning light of this month, the chickadees</div> <div> that punctuate the feeder, that magnolia on fire.</div> <bR> <div> On the third page, I stick with the comfort of the daily,</div> <div> how my life is awash in Shakespeare, ninth graders</div> <div> and the cruelest joy of untangling the language</div> <div> of Romeo and Juliet. I say it's not quite a triumph,</div> <div> fourteen is a tough age for understanding paradox,</div> <div> I can tell by their gaping mouths when I say,</div> <div> "in a minute there are many days" or "thou day in night."</div> <bR> <div> I want to be cut out in little stars. How do I</div> <div> close this letter? I sign in slow loops, seal</div> <div> the envelope and place the stamp of Khalo</div> <div> in its upright position. From their graves</div> <div> the women of my family sigh and slip off their gloves.</div> <bR> <div> ISBN 0-941053-53-9</div> <bR> <div> <B>Book of Days</B> is a 60 page hand-sewn paperback with flat spine - $14.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  <B>Book of Days  </B>ON-LINE </div> <div> <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Book of Days"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="04-25"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> To order through mail see <A HREF="#to_order_through_mail_send_total_price" TITLE="HillKaucher"><U>bottom of page</U></A>.</div> <div> **************************************</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="questioning_walls_open"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Questioning Walls Open </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >(2001)</FONT></div> <div> <B>Jennifer Hill-Kaucher </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="23dd6410.jpg" border=0 width="214" height="321" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> From the Book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>"Letter"</B></div> <bR> <div> I wish you would write. Your letter</div> <div> would arrive in good time, aloft</div> <div> in days striated with routine.</div> <div> I'd put on the kettle, study</div> <div> the althea on the stamp,</div> <div> its latin name a whisper</div> <div> in my throat. Then I´d tear</div> <div> the envelope, leave</div> <div> a line of teeth to read</div> <div> the marrow of your life</div> <div> in your hand, that fine fist</div> <div> we learned - racemose loops</div> <div> and slanted stems that lilted</div> <div> us toward other suns. Later,</div> <div> I'd see the pages folded</div> <div> beneath my cup, the rim</div> <div> of stain, O of surprise.</div> <bR> <div> ISBN 0-941053-04-0</div> <bR> <div> Hand-stitched chapbook - $7.00. </div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER <B>Questioning Walls Open </B>ON-LINE </div> <div> <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Questioning Walls Open"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="01-6"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="7.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>      </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> **************************************</div> <div>  <A NAME="to_order_through_mail_send_total_price"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>To order through mail send total price plus $1.25 Shipping and Handling ($1.75 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to. </div> <bR> <div> Send orders to:   </div> <bR> <div> FootHills Publishing</div> <div> PO Box 68</div> <div> Kanona, NY 14856</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Thank you for your support! </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </BODY>