Join local author Jeanne Bryner to discuss her new book of poetry, "In Velvet: New & Selected Poems".
Jeanne Bryner’s family was part of Appalachia’s outmigration, and she grew up in Newton Falls, Ohio. A retired board certified emergency room nurse, she’s a graduate of Trumbull Memorial Hospital’s School of Nursing and Kent State University’s Honors College. Her books include Breathless, Blind Horse: Poems, Eclipse: Stories, Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated and Remembered, The Wedding of Miss Meredith Mouse, No Matter How Many Windows, Early Farming Woman, Both Shoes Off, Learning to Heal: Re- flections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose and In Velvet: New & Selected Poems. Her work has been adapted for the stage nationally and also the 2005 Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her play, Foxglove Canyon, was first performed in Akron for Summa Healthcare’s Humanities’ conference directed by Russell Zampino. She has received awards for community service, nursing and writing fellowships from Bucknell University, the Ohio Arts Council (’97, ’07) and Vermont Studio Center. She lives near an Ohio dairy farm with her husband, David.
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