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Looking for a full life story from coming of age to widowhood with care that only comes from a deep sense of pride in people and place? Join Midtown Reader for Jennifer Kanke as she reads and discusses her poetry from The Swellest Life Anyone Ever Had.About the Book:
She was born to blossoming asters and goldenrod. The war was over, the war was yet to come. When her children found her, she was nothing but an empty skin in the shape of a poem. What happened between is no tale of
high drama and intrigue, it’d never make the papers, but it’s as important as sandstone and shale, trillium and maypop, the smell of hot, hot biscuits in the morning. The Swellest Wife Anyone Ever Had is a collection of formal poetry that follows the life of a resistant and resilient Appalachian housewife in mid-century Ohio.
About Jennifer Kanke:
Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, after spending most of her life in Ohio, now lives in Florida where she is at work on a reimagining of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline set in the Florida Panhandle during the 1980s. Her work typically focuses on issues of class and gender in Appalachia and has recently appeared in New Ohio Review, Massachusetts Review, and Shenandoah. She is the winner of a Sheila-Na-Gig Editor’s Choice Award for Fiction. Her zine about her experiences undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, Fine, Considering, is available from Rinky Dink Press (2019). She can be found on YouTube hosting the Meter Cute Interviews podcast on Meter&Mayhem.
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