Jenn Monroe is in love with the limitless quality of words. She writes poetry and creative nonfiction and teaches writing and literature courses as a full-time member of the faculty at Chester College of New England. A native of Western, NY, she lives in New Hampshire.

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Something More Like Love in the News

Check out this interview with Jenn Monroe in the Examiner!

Something More Like Love Available for Pre-Orders

Something More Like Love, the first chapbook by Jenn Monroe, is available now for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. The ship date is scheduled for Dec. 3, 2011. Something More Like Love examines love and its many facets. "Jenn Monroe's poetry finds its wellspring in divine reality in which everything moves through and out of love," writes Barbara Louise Ungar, author of Charlotte Bronte, You Ruined My Life. "We are in a mess--but you will feel better about it after reading this lovely chapbook: happier, calmer, and more joyful." Eric Pinder, author of Life At The Top and North To Katahdin, call the poems in Something More Like Love "gem-like" and "packed with passion and wit." "I've been eagerly awaiting this collection since the first time I heard Jenn Monroe perform her poetry," he said.

Jenn Monroe to Read in Datum:Earth Series

Jenn Monroe will be one of three featured readers in the Datum:Earth New England Reading Series at 8 p.m., Saturday, April 16 at in Keene, NH. The event also features poets Ivy Page and Tucker Sampson. All three are graduates of the MFA in Poetry program at New England College.

Jenn Monroe "Ms. January" at 12Poets.com

Jenn Monroe is the featured poet for January at the new literary journal 12Poets.com. Created by poet Ann-Marie Madden Irwin to showcase emerging poets, the journal features 12 poems by one poet each month.

Jenn Monroe Ties for Second in Borges Contest

Jenn Monroe's poem "Picture This" has tied for second place in the Borges Poetry & Prose Contest sponsored by Caper Literary Journal. Stay tuned for publication information!

SO Good Interviews Jenn Monroe

SO Good Online, a student-run blog at Chester College of New England, interviewed Jenn Monroe after her recent faculty reading. Check it out here.

Jenn Monroe to Give Faculty Reading

Jenn Monroe will give a faculty reading as part of Chester College of New England's 2010 Visiting Writers Series. She will present new work at 6 p.m., Wednesday, September 15 in Powers 29 (the fireplace room). Joshua Blanchard and Meg Cameron, two Chester College students, will open the evening. The event, which is part of the Department of Writing and Literature's Visiting Writers Series, is free and open to the public.

"NO DIVING" among Top 50 PAD Challenge Poems

Jenn Monroe's poem "NO DIVING" is among the Top 50 written during the 2010 Poem-a-Day Challenge hosted by Robert Lee Brewer on his Writer's Digest blog "Poetic Asides with Robert Lee Brewer". Brewer selected the Top 50 from more than 1,000 submissions, all written during the month of April. For more information, check out his blog and watch for Jenn's poem to be posted within the coming months.

**Jenn Monroe's "Love for Oil" Included on Poets for Living Waters Blog**

Jenn Monroe's response to the BP oil spill, "Love for Oil," is part of the Open Mic section of the Poets for Living Waters blog. You can find her poem on this page. Poems are presented alphabetically by poet's last name.

Something More Like Love a Finalist in Chapbook Contest

Jenn Monroe's chapbook, Something More Like Love, was a finalist in the 2010 Midnight Sun Chapbook Contest sponsored by the literary journal Permafrost. The poem "Hurricane Honeymoon," which is part of the collection, was selected for inclusion in Permafrost Volume 32, which will go to print in June. The winner of the contest was Richard Sonnenmoser's Science-Magic School and the other finalists are Molly Sutton Kiefer, Matter Schumacher and W.F. Lantry.