To order "The Glass Sponge", click on the Finishing Line Press link link below. Go to "PREORDER FORTHCOMING TITLES" and scroll down to Jules Jacob in the "Sale: Author" drop down box. Beginning in June, "The Glass Sponge" will be available at julesjacob.com and Amazon. It will also be available in Kindle format.
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May.24.2013 - 3:08 pm
It’s a great pleasure to announce the advance copies of The Glass Sponge shipped today. I’m also pleased to announce the official launch of my new website julesjacob.com. Please...
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Mar.23.2013 - 3:43 pm
In the January/February issue of Poets & Writers magazine, poet and critic Reagan Upshaw delivers four pages of put-downs (disguised as advice) devised to dissuade poets from...
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Feb.28.2013 - 9:29 pm
When the six week advance sales period for The Glass Sponge began in January, I thought I’d already established an above average social media presence. I thought Amish web...
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Feb.11.2013 - 12:08 pm
If it were the 1960's, the foster children I help might sing me this song...
"Help me if you can I'm feeling downand I do appreciate you coming round.Help me get my feet back on...
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- It's official: The Glass Sponge Advance Copies are in the mail. Signed copies of The Glass Sponge are available at julesjacob.com. The website is live! (The book is also available on Amazon and Finishing Line Press but check out that website!)
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- Pipe-cleaner Veil by Eden. Broken Elbow Art by Dr. Worsch.
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In this strong and vulnerable collection of poetry, the poet spins out a thoughtful imagery of innocence and culpability, for (and of) "the users and the abused". Jules Jacob inhabits a dichotomous world, and with delicate magnetism, draws us into it, in each poem. ”
—The Glass Sponge Endorsement— Dr. Harrison Solow, Pushcart Prize winning writer, author and university professor
About Jules
Julie "Jules" Jacob attended the University of New Hampshire, Colorado State University and The Horticultural Therapy Institute. She’s a Horticultural Therapist, and child advocate for CASA of Southwest Missouri. Jules lives in the Mark Twain National Forest...
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Missouri Court Appointed Special Advocates Association, American Horticultural Therapy Association, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, National Jewish...
Jules’s Favorite Books
The Fountainhead, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, Cutting for Stone, The Botany of Desire, Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants, A Stained White Radiance and...
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