Laura Linnea Jensen (born November 16, 1948, in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet.
She graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she studied with David Wagoner, Mark Strand, and Galway Kinnell, and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in 1974, where she studied with Norman Dubie, Donald Justice, and Marvin Bell. She became friends with Tess Gallagher.
Her work appeared in Ploughshares. She read at Burning Word 2005. She lives near Wright Park, Tacoma, Washington."Lives of the Poets: Laura Jensen", Poetry Foundation, Heidi Broadhead 9.23.09
Awards 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship NEA fellowship Washington State Arts Commission grant
Works "Sarge"; "Steve Allen", Salt River Review, Volume 6, Number 1, Winter, 2002–2003 "The Red Dog", Nothing to Say and Saying It, September 6, 2006 Shelter Dragon Gate, 1985 Memory, Dragon Gate, 1982, ; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006, Bad boats, Ecco Press, 1977; ECCO Press, 1984
Chapbooks Sky Empty of Orion, 1985 The Story Makes Them Whole, Porch Publications, 1979 Tapwater: poems, Graywolf Press, 1978 Anxiety and ashes: poems, Penumbra Press, 1976 After I Have Voted, Gemini 1972
References
External links Author's blog Joe Anistranski: “Laura Jensen’s Bad Boats”, Contemporary Poetry: a web symposium Spring 2006 "Bad Boats by LAURA JENSEN, Recovered by JASON STUMPF", Octopus Magazine, Issue 7 "A Shelter, A Kingdom, A Half Promised Land: Three Poets In Mid-Career", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1987, pp. 426–436