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About jenneandrews

Jenne' R. Andrews lives and writes in Fort Collins. She is a Fellow of the National Endowment in Literature, the published author of several collections of poetry, freelance articles, and innumerable miscellaneous pieces of writing; she blogs here, at La Parola Vivace on Blogger and at She Writes about issues du jour, literary dilemmas, and more. She encourages quality diverse posts/responses principally from other writers and thinkers. She will post her own poetry, memoir and short fiction on this site, and within reason, as a former teacher of creative writing, literature and composition, is happy to give free feedback upon request.

What Does the Average Bear Really Get About Addiction?

May Whitney Houston’s death not be in vain.  I could not believe that her close friend, who watched her set herself up for an OD at a pre-Grammy party, said she was “fine” when she was drinking. More baffling and … Continue reading

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A few words on a lonely battle: self-advocacy under the ADA….

You have got to be kidding me. ….WTF is up with health care providers who in 2012, many years after the passage of the ADA, and given the fact that there are many civil rights information sites and blogs out … Continue reading

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Not in Love but in Things…A Dusk Rumination

To read my latest poem please visit my luscious blog La Parola Vivace.  Also do note that my memoir is posted for all comers at Nightfall in Verona… No wonder I stay in my apartment making heirloom baby dolls and … Continue reading

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Book Review: An Illumination of Book of Fire by Cary Waterman

Winter Quarantine It has always snowed, white falling like words all day and night speaking stones. And stars. Of beginning in fire-hot galaxies. In the quarantine of snow we sleep and dream of radishes, thousands of radishes in dark furrows, … Continue reading

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Recent Poem

I Am Speaking of This Here, hands full of sand, letting it sift through in the wind, I look in and say take this, this is what I have saved, take this, hurry. And if I listen now? Listen, I … Continue reading

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Book Review, Poetry: Patina, Tess Kincaid

With the beauteous late autumn comes a gorgeous new chapbook from Finishing Line Press: Patina, by Tess Kincaid. Let me first say that one ground-breaking thing about this collection is that Ms. Kincaid is heretofore unpublished in the traditional sense … Continue reading

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Michael Jackson, A Lesson in the Abuse of Free Will

In advance of the burgeoning national obsession with the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, charged with the murder of Michael Jackson by overdose of an anesthetic that shouldn’t be used outside a hospital, I wanted– surprise, surprise– to weigh in. … Continue reading

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A Review of 2011 Swenson Award Winner Travis Mossotti’s About the Dead

We never know how and when a superb literary voice is born, much less what makes it happen. But happen once more it has with the young poet Travis Mossotti’s first published collection of poetry About the Dead, winner of … Continue reading

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Ablow videos in Anthony case worth a look….

just watched a few videos of Dr. Keith Ablow, a forensic psychiatrist who seems quite intelligent and wrote a book on the Scott Peterson case, twenty years’ experience with “murderers,” weigh in on Fox on Casey Anthony–these are of interviews … Continue reading

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At a Rolling Boil…

My blood is boiling.  It’s midnight in Colorado and I am completely baffled by and fed up with the white trash on Facebook. There:  I said it.  And I don’t like saying it. I’m a Civil Rights advocate and unfortunately, … Continue reading

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