JeanPaul Jenack

Pounded I have been pounded by croaking professor poets for years and it has taken me years to learn that not much depends upon a red wheelbarrow things don’t always fall apart and apparitions of faces in the crowd may just be the new faces in the crowd. Knowing this I find it funny I often consider the road not taken and howl. In fact I just did now. So . . . let’s toss this one into that old frog pond and listen for a splash.

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JeanPaul Jenack has held a variety of jobs, including school teacher, college professor, TV writer/director, choreographer, street juggler, circus performer, playwright, and freelance writer.  For the past 15 years he has worked as Executive Director of the National Circus Project, a non-profit arts organization based in New York. He has received numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts as an artist-in-schools, and in 1990 received a congressional commendation for "helping to further the cause of international understanding" through his work in the arts (U.S. Congressional Record, 5/23/90).  He has written and directed several plays, including Klowns, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1983/Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors Performing Arts Series, 1984, and The Earth Movers, Cider Mill Theatre, Binghamton, 1991/ American entry at the Hong Kong International Arts Carnival, Kowloon, 1991, and wrote and narrated the television documentary Unicycle, (PBS, 1981).  His poetry and other writings have appeared in numerous books, magazines and journals; he has work currently appearing or forthcoming in print in Alpha Beat Soup, The Best Poems of 1998, blood & feathers, Cicada, Common Threads, frogpond, Haiku Headlines, Malevolence, Modern Haiku, Piedmont Literary Review, Point Judith Light, Portraits of Life and Reflections, and online in Anthology, The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks, Brew-Net, The Bridge, Calliope, Haiku Light, Pogonip and Word Salad.