Laura Linnea Jensen

Laura Linnea Jensen (born November 16, 1948 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet.^[1]

She graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she studied with David Wagoner, Mark Strand, and Galway Kinnell, and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in 1974, where she studied with Norman Dubie, Donald Justice, and Marvin Bell. She became friends with Tess Gallagher.^[2]

Her work appeared in Ploughshares.^[3] She read at Burning Word 2005.^[4] She lives near Wright Park, Tacoma, Washington.^[5]

• 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship^[6]
• NEA fellowship
• Washington State Arts Commission grant^[7]

• "Sarge"; "Steve Allen", Salt River Review, Volume 6, Number 1, Winter, 2002–2003
• "The Red Dog", Nothing to Say and Saying It, September 6, 2006
• Shelter Dragon Gate, 1985 ISBN 978-0-937872-28-4
• Memory, Dragon Gate, 1982, ISBN 978-0-937872-02-4; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-88748-456-8
• Bad boats, Ecco Press, 1977; ECCO Press, 1984 ISBN 978-0-912946-39-9

• Sky Empty of Orion, 1985
• The Story Makes Them Whole, Porch Publications, 1979
• Tapwater: poems, Graywolf Press, 1978
• Anxiety and ashes: poems, Penumbra Press, 1976
• After I Have Voted, Gemini 1972

• Author's blog
• Joe Anistranski: “Laura Jensen’s Bad Boats”, Contemporary Poetry: a web symposium Spring 2006
• "Bad Boats by LAURA JENSEN, Recovered by JASON STUMPF", Octopus Magazine, Issue 7
• "A Shelter, A Kingdom, A Half Promised Land: Three Poets In Mid-Career", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1987, pp. 426–436