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The perfect rose is only a running flame, emerging and flowing off,
and never in any sense at rest, static, finished.

                                                                                                                                                --D. H. Lawrence
The day I went up to the Parthenon
Its humane splendor made me think So what?

        --James Merrill

Jessie Janeshek is the co-editor, with Jesse Graves, of Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (KWG Press, 2008).

Outscape contains work by more than 100 writers and artists, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Wright; Deedee Agee, daughter of novelist James Agee; poet, translator, and children’s book author Marilyn Kallet; Iowa Prize winning poet Peter Jay Shippy; and poet and musician RB Morris. The book is available on amazon and at knoxvillewritersguild.org.

A West Virginia native, Jessie is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Tennessee. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Emerson College, Boston. Her poetry appears in Washington Square, Passages North, EvaMag, Review Americana, Yemassee, and Caduceus and has been anthologized in the collections The Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion, Low Explosions: Writings on the Body, and Motif: Writing by Ear. She promotes her belief in the power of creative writing as community outreach by co-directing a variety of volunteer workshops in the Knoxville area. She is a freelance editor and also works as a writing instructor at UT.

To find out more about Jessie's poetry and other projects or to schedule her for a reading, please visit the "contact" page to the left.

ctoral student in English at the University of Tennessee. She also teaches freshmen writing at UT and serves on the Board of Directors of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild. A West Virginia native, she holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Emerson College, Boston. Her poems appear in the magazines Washington Square, Passages North, Review Americana, Yemassee, and Caduceus, and have been anthologized in the books Low Explosions: Writings on the Body and The Movable Nest: a Mother/Daughter Companion. She is currently co-editing the 2008 Knoxville Writers’ Guild Anthology.