Kathleen Jesme

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PUBLISHED: Jan.15.2009

The Plum-Stone Game

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2005

Motherhouse

"This book-length memditation is part memoir, part spiritual diary, but first and foremost, pure poem. Set in and submitted to the rigors of convent life, these lyrics shine with winter light. Jesme writes: 'my flexible voice/ my ecstasy/ I learn that prayer/ is either silence/ or song.' Few writers are as adept as she is at listening to both." -Elaine Equi

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About Kathleen

Poet and author of The Plum-Stone Game (Ahsahta Press), Motherhouse (Pleiades Press), Fire Eater (University of Tampa Press).

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Causes Kathleen Jesme Supports

American Civil Liberties Union

Greenpeace