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Featured reader at the Salem Poetry Project with Jim Merrill (poet) and Orion Davidson (Flutist)
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A professional writer for more than fifteen years, Janssen is an internationally published poet and seasoned featured reader.
EDUCATION
California Lutheran University, Communication Arts College of the Siskiyous, Communications BOOK PUBLICATIONS
New Year’s Eve Morning, self-published 2018 There will be a river and a log and everyone we love will be there with us, self-published 2019 November Reconsidered Cirque Press August 2021 ANTHOLOGY AND REPRINT PUBLICATIONS “Mottled Snow” and “The World as Impressionist Painting” in Green is the Color of Winter: an Eclectic Collection, Publish Your Words 2011 “California Rain” and “On the Sublime” in The Northern California Perspective 2013 “Fixed Points in California” in Manifest West Different Roads a Literary Anthology 2014 p. 19 “Alleys of Downtown Salem” in Write the Town 2016 p14 and 15 “Easy Oregon,” “Holograms of the Banal,” “The Dust Men,” and “Disqualification 10” in Terra Incognita, 2019 p. 150 to 155 “The Song of Charlie” in Workers Write; Tales from the Changeover April 2021 p. 60 “Calm Before the Storm” in A Joy to See: Ekphrastic Poems Based on the Work of Kay Levine, February 2023 p.50 JOURNAL AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS “Sampson on the Rooftop,” in Bellowing Ark January/February 2007 p. 11 “Uncle Felix, Cedar River, 1953” and “November II” in Bellowing Ark May/June 2007 p. 26 and 28 “In the Rain,” in Bellowing Ark July/August 2007 p. 13 “Above Fern Ridge Reservoir,” in Bellowing Ark January/February 2008 p. 23 “Gymnopidies,” in Bellowing Ark May/June 2008 p. 23 “Prelude to the Afternoon,” in Bellowing Ark September/October 2010 p. 9 “Statues of Judas” in New Verse News January 4, 2012 “The Colored Tiles Fit” and “The Boat’s Engine Turned and Growled” in Four Ties Lit Review Vol 2 No 1 Summer 2012, p. 31 and 32 “Let these Words Stay,” Dead Flowers, A Poetry Rag Vo1 No 4 November 2012, p. 4 “In the Room there is a Painting” in Gold Man Review 2012 Vol 1, p 40 “Risk Management,” Gold Man Review Issue 2 2012/2013 p 25 “April Afternoon II,” Dead Flowers, A Poetry Rag Vo1 No 11 June 2013, p. 4 “Old Man ≈ Ventura Harbor” in Driftwood Press Vol 1 No 1, January 2013, p. 11 “Willamette August I” in Vine Leaves Literary Journal No 7 July 2013, p. 3 “Philip, Seattle, 1921” in Cirque Journal Vol 5 No 1 Winter 2013 p 59 “Willamette August III,” “Zombie,” and “Work” Ottawa Arts Review volume 7.1 2013 pp 75, 85 and 86 “Contrapunctus” in Gold Man Review Issue 3 2013/2014 p.11 “How to Make the Referee Cry” Off the Coast Spring 2014 “Summer Song” Rock River Review, Spring 2014 p. 55 “Here on the Porch” in Agave Magazine Vol 3 Issue 3 Summer 2014 “November IV” in Cirque Journal Vol 5 No 2 Summer 2014 p. 77 “The Rhythm of the Rain,” in Cirque Journal Vol. 6 No 1, Winter 2014, p. 27 “The Candle of Peace—Advent II” New Verse News, December 21, 2014 web publication “Seagull as Soul” in Sediments Literary-Arts Journal Fall/Winter 2015, p. 8 “The Brown Earth” in Askew Issue 16, 2015 p, 17 “Four Keys” in The Meadow 2015 p 98 “Klamath River August” in Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal Spring 2016, p. 59 “A Gathering of Birds” in Red Earth Review July 2016 p. 58 “Used Jacket” in Agave Magazine Vol 3 No 2, 2016 “The Discarded Pieces of Paper” in Rio Grande Review Issue 47 “Poem of the Oort Cloud” in Allegro Poetry Magazine Issue 13 June 2017, web publication “Statement of Purpose” in Cirque Journal Vol 8 No 2, Summer 2017 p. 80 “The Cat Who Doesn’t Like People” and “March Answers September” in Joey and the Black Boots the Re-Boot #2, July 2017, p. 34 and p. 89 “February Salem Parkway II,” and “I Wrap my Tongue Around Your Name” in Penumbra Literary and Art Journal 2017 vol 27 p. 94 and 96 “My Flat Horizon” in Williwaw Journal No 2 Winter 2017 p. 3 “The Poem of the Planck Constant” in Williwaw Journal No 3 Spring 2018 p. 2 “September VI” and “Child of the Wind at Fifty, Thank you Bruce Cockburn,” Red Earth Review July 2018 p. 78 and 79 “Cold Night so Far Below Disinterested Stars” in Ink Sweat and Tears web publication September 21, 2018 “The Poem of the Third Law of Thermodynamics” in Cascadia Rising Issue 3, Autumn 2018 “Space Lion” and “The Poem of Michelson Theory” in Allegro Poetry Magazine Issue 19, December 2018 “The Stars will Welcome you Brother” in Amethyst Review January 24, 2019 “City of Bread” in Zingara Review February 6, 2019 “Rauch” in Amethyst Review February 24, 2019 “So Long Space Cowboy,” “September V,” “September 30,” and “Still Enough to Hear a Watch” in Ottawa Arts Review 2018 p. 31, 32, 40, and 52 “Pneuma III” in Metonym Literary Journal Vol 9, Spring 2019 p.56 “Beauty” and “River Road Seven Thirty Saturday Morning” in Penumbra Literary and Art Journal 2019 vol. 29 p. 150 and 152 “The Sea Itself Flows in your Veins” in The Nassau Review 2019, p. 48 “Mill Creek, March 22” in Slant: a Journal of Poetry Summer 2019, p.36 “L2” in Otis Nebula Issue 14, 2019 “Recipe for Petite Macaroons” in Willawaw Journal, Fall 2019, Issue 7, p. 7 “Breakroom 3:45 Wednesday” and “Ceiling Tile Andromida” in The Door is A Jar, Fall 2019 Issue 12, p. 78 and 79 “Corks or Drums” in Abstract Magazine, October 16, 2019 “The Lost Divorce” November 7, 2019 and “The World is a Mirror of Infinite Beauty” in Amethyst Review, December 16, 2019 “Syzygy” in Rusty Truck, November 15, 2019 “White” in MVPS Online Poetry Box, April 20, 2020 “Gong Show Haiku,” in OPA Newsletter April 24, 2020 “The End of Seaward,” in Blue Unicorn vol. XLIII no 2 Spring 2020 p.17 “Postcard from the Spring,” in Ink Sweat and Tears, web publication May 24, 2020 “The Poem of Vulgar Mathematics” in The Door is a Jar #15 Issue 15 Summer 2020 p.80 “What the Redwood Said” in MVPS Online Poetry Box, June 23, 2020 “It’s Gotta be AOC” in Rusty Truck, June 29, 2020 “January at the Harbor Freight Tool Store” in Obsessed with Pipework Issue 91 p.38 “Stan Getz Plays Detour Ahead” in The Willawaw Journal Fall 2020, Issue 10, p.4 “Sunset at Cape Kiwanda II” in Penumbra Literary and Art Journal 2020 “Winter Street Bridge” in Borrowed Solace Issue 3.2 p. 37 “Willamette August, San Salvador Park” in Cirque Journal Volume 11, No 1 p.94 “Seas of Change” in Zingara Review, December 21, 2020 “To Jon Harder, America’s Finest Capitalist” in North Dakota Review Volume 87 No 3 and 4 (Fall/Winter 2020) “Path of the Dragonfly” in Panoply, A Literary Zine, Issue 17- Winter 2021 “Willamette August, Sydney Landing” in Amethyst Review January 31, 2021 “Marketing” Talking River Review Issue 49 Fall 2020 p.92 “Kairos II,” “Kairos III,” and “The Fire Elemental” in Magnolia Review, Vol 6, Issue 2, January 2021 p. 388, 439, 440 “The Poem of the Conservation of Matter II” and “The Poem of Special Relativity” in Orbis #195 p.49 “Camp David” in Willawaw Journal Spring 2021 Issue 12, p.4 “November V” in Allegro Poetry Magazine Issue 26, March 2021 “I was Right” and “I Smoke for my Weight” in Quadrant March 2021 Volume LXV, Number 3, No. 574 “Amor Mundi” and “Hallways” in Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue #4 p. 2-4 “Fire Dies” in Blue Unicorn Vol. XLIV Number 2, Spring 2021 p.7 “A Chapel of Sunflowers” in Foxglove Journal May 31, 2021 “June” in Spectrum Volume 64 p. 60 “Where the Railroad Meets the Sea” in Penumbra 2021 Volume 31, p.30 “Wednesday Afternoon in an Elevator” in Blue Collar Review Spring 2021, p.6 “Baskett Slough III” in Foxglove Journal July 16, 2021 “2:00 AM, In the Dark, Sunday” and “5:30 PM, Wheatland Ferry, Saturday” in Poetry Salzburg No. 37 Summer 2021 p. 83 and 84 “8:15 AM, Toyota Dealership, Tuesday” in Midwest Quarterly Vol. 62 No. 4, Summer 2021, p.378 “Kairos I” in Pinyon No. 30 Spring 2021 p. 19 “Willamette August, Union Street Trestle” in Slant: a Journal of Poetry Ed. 35 Summer 2021 p. 31 “September II” in Cacti Fur September 3, 2021 “Twenty Something Years On” and “In Conclusion XIII” in Penumbra “In Conclusion VII” in Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue 6 p. 12 “August” in I-70 Review, Summer/Fall 2021 “Luckiamute August” in Willawaw Journal Fall 2021, Issue 15 p. 5 “Angels are Good at Excuses” in Song of Eretz Poetry Review Fall 2021 “Cape Perpetua” in Song of Eretz Poetry Review Winter 2021/2022 “Big Blue Balloon” in Rusty Truck January 31, 2022 “All the Kites are Gone” in The Comstock Review Winter/Fall Volume 35.2 p. 77 “On a Jetti Unnamed” in Cirque Journal Volume 12, Number 1, p. 103 “Ever Changing Palette of the Sky” in Pensive Issue 4, p.104 “After All This,” in Amethyst Review April 7, 2022 “Peacock Flat” in North Dakota Quarterly Volume 89 Number ½ Spring/Summer 2022, p. 79 “New Grass II” in Words and Whispers Issue 8 “Distant Behemoths Sleep” in Santa Clara Review Volume 109, Issue 02, Spring 2022, p. 81 “On a Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Rusty Truck June 17, 2022 “Late October,” “This Time Machine Goes One Way,” and “Life has the Force of a Collapsing Star” in Triggerfish Issue 28 “Hibari” in Fireweed Issue 2, Winter 2022 “Stout Grove” in *82 Review Issue 10.1 “Before the Dawn Heals Us” in Borrowed Solace Issue 5.1, Spring 2022, p. 86 “Artemision” in Cirque Journal Vol 12, No 2, p. 102 “Manny’s Roach Coach” in Sin Fonteras Vol 26, p. 34 “My Song of Guernica” in The Grey Sparrow Journal July 2022 (Issue 40) “Amaris” in Book of Matches, Issue 1, Fall 2022, p. 115 “The Wooden Cross” in As It Ought To Be, September 7, 2022 “Study in Texture” in Windsor Review Vol 55, No 1, Fall 2022, p. 16 “Version 3” in Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue #10 Who Are You, p. 12 “Men’s Work” in Cacti Fur August 17, 2022 “The Cynic and the Poem” and “Always Returning III” in The Big Windows Review August 26, 2022 “Shasta” in Ink Sweat & Tears September 14, 2022 “Her Hair Was Colored Burgundy” in San Antonio Review October 30, 2022 “Postmodern Cathedral” in Trestle Ties Issue 5 “Street Lights Sleep as the Ineffective Sun Retires,” “Some Other Time,” and “You Own What You Sign” in The Stray Branch Fall/Winter 2022 #30 Vol 27, p. 9, 10, 11 “Old Rain on Steamed Windows” in The Avalon Literary Review Fall 2022 p. 5 “Perro” in Barzakh Magazine Winter 2023 “Battery Russell” in Cirque Journal Vol 13. No 1. p. 115 “Eternity” and “Lazarus in the Light” in Thrush January 2023 “Campfire Coyote Country” in Slant Volume 36.3 – Fall 2022 “Salem January V” in Salem for All, March 8, 2023 “April Afternoon I” in Willawaw Journal Spring 2023 Issue 16, p. 4 “New Grass on This Old Earth” in Song of Eretz Spring 2023 “Love is a Warehouse” in Book of Matches Issue 8 Spring 2023, p.117 “Under the Bridge to Harstine Island” in Abstract Magazine May 23, 2023 ”The Day You Realized You Were No Longer Necessary” and “Visiting the Barbara Roberts Building in the Time of COVID.” In The Blue Collar Review Volume 26 Issue 3 Spring 2023 p. 36 and 39 “Blumthal VI” in Feral A Journal of Poetry and Art Issue 16, The Music Issue “The Work is Done” in The Summerset Review Fall 2023 “Pneuma II” in Words and Whispers Issue 13 “Failure” in Allegro Poetry Magazine Issue 31, September 2023 “The Clock has Lost its Way in the Sisyphean Night” in Cirque Journal Vol 13, No 2 p.88 Accepted But Not Released Yet: “Left Overs” in Coe Review “Airlie Branch” in Fireweed “Expressions of Errol Flynn” in Quadrant “We are Shadows Who Walk in the Sun II” in The Stray Branch “Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples” in Triggerfish “Avoid Dance” and “To Ludwig, Oh Friends, Not These Sounds” in California Quarterly Vol 48, No 1, “Willamette August, Mission State Park” in The Atlanta Review “Office Chairs in the Shape of the Death Star” and “Visiting the Barbara Roberts Building in the Time of COVID” in Workers Write! “September I” in JMWW “of Endings” in WestWard Quarterly ARTICLES, ESSAYS, REVIEWS “Windsong” in Cirque Journal Vol 7 No 1 Winter 2015 p. 85 “Three Thoughts on Open Mic Poetry” in Salem Weekly November 10, 2016 “Smiles from Oregon, the Search for Steven Robert Heine” in Salem Weekly May 11, 2018 “The Lust of Experience – The Dralas in Everyday Life” in Salem Weekly “Shape of the Wind” in Salem Weekly October 11, 2018 “It’s the Conversation: Lit from the Basement” in The Statesman Journal February 5, 2019 “Lois Rosen’s Poetry Dives Arrow-Straight” in The Statesman Journal October 5, 2021 PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Featured Reader at Café Voltaire in Ventura CA September 7, 1993 Featured Reader at Café Voltaire in Ventura CA May 5, 1994 Featured Reader at The Daily Grind in Ventura CA May 14, 1995 Featured Reader at Café Voltaire in Ventura CA May 30, 1996 Featured Reader at Café Voltaire in Ventura CA January 16, 1997 “Verse” reading at CCTV January 2017 Featured Reader at Poetics Corvallis in Interzone Café, Corvallis OR February 1, 2019 Featured Reader at Salem Poetry Project with Jim Merrill (poet) and Orion Davidson (flutist) March 28, 2019 Featured Reader at Free Range Poetry in the Multnomah County Library-Northwest Branch in Portland OR April 1, 2019 Featured Reader at Milwaukie First Friday in Milwaukie OR June 7, 2019 Recorded and presented for the Mid-Valley Poetry Society at the Salem Virtual Art Fair July 18 and 19, 2020 Featured Reader at Head for the Hills, virtually August 25, 2020 Featured Reader at the Salem Poetry Project, March 25, 2021 Featured Reader at Poetry on the Lawn, July 3, 2021 Featured Reader at Milwaukie Poetry Series Open Mic, April 6, 2022 Featured Reader at Rose City Book Pub, August 26, 2022 Featured Reader at Camas Public Library, February 1, 2023 Featured Reader at the Silverton Poetry Festival, February 18, 2023 Featured Reader at Rose City Book Pub, March 13, 2023, Three Geniuses, Three Books and Beer Featured Reader at Bloomsbury Books, April 3, 2023 with Gary Lark Featured Reader at The Old World Center, September 27, 2023 Poetry Showcase with David Goodrum and Clem Starck Featured Reader at The Salem Poetry Project, November 2, 2023 Featured Reader at Ghost Town Poetry, November 9, 2023 PODCASTS AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS Interviewed on “Poetry on the Air” KMUZ October 19, 2018 Interviewed on “Poetry on the Air” KMUZ July 26, 2019 Interviewed on “Florence Radio Poetry Society” KXCR July 23, 2020 Interviewed on “Poetry on the Air” KMUZ November 12 and 26, 2021 Interviewed on “Hey Alexa” Episode 16, March 11, 2022 Interviewed on “The Post Human Podcast” Episode 75, April 19, 2022 Interviewed on “Salem for All” KMWV January 8, 2023 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND HONORS Salem Poetry Project coordinated weekly readings starting January 2016 and still continuing well over 350 events “The Sales Regional” selected and performed by the Liars League PDX, September 2016 The Poets of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties at the Salem Poetry Project June 7, 2018 Salem Poetry Festival coordinated festival events October 25-27, 2018 The Poems of Ben Hur Lampman presentation at the Salem Poetry Project April 18, 2019 Salem Poetry Festival coordinated festival events September 8-13, 2019 “Creating and Executing Successful Poetry Events” presentation at the 2019 Oregon Poetry Association Annual Conference September 14, 2019 Nominated for Oregon Poet Laureate, January 2020 “Willamette August, San Salvador Park” nominated for a Puchcart Prize by Cirque Journal November 22, 2020 Salem City Club, “2020 in Fewer Words: Salem Area Poets Present Their Work and Inspiration” panel member, December 11, 2020 Poetry on the Lawn, organized a one day festival outside July 2, 2021 Wrote a blurb for the book This Uneven Universe by Benjamin Gorman, December 2021 “Fire Dies” nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Blue Unicorn, February 1, 2022 Joined the Board of the Marion Cultural Development Corporation, July 1, 2022 Received the Oregon Poetry Association Ruth Banta Award, October 8, 2022 Wrote a blurb for the book First Among Beautiful Stars by Emmitt Wheatfall, January 2023 Poetry on the Lawn, coordinated three evenings of outside readings June/July 2023 Wrote a blurb for the book Vital Signs and Other Signs of Life by David Goodrum, October 2023 |