Jeff Fearnside
Writer
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Welcome to my website! I'm Jeff Fearnside, a writer, editor, teacher, workshop leader, and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. Follow the links above or below to read some of my work, contact me regarding readings and workshops, explore Asia through my photo travelogue, and much more. You may want to bookmark this site, as I regularly update current material and add new material. Thanks for visiting, and please return often!
MY NEW CHAPBOOK: Lake, and Other Poems of Love in a Foreign Land, winner of the Standing Rock Cultural Arts 2010 Open Poetry Chapbook Competition, has been released! This is the inaugural title in the Rock in the River Literary Series.
Read Lake, the poem, here. Click on cover image to purchase a copy of the book (price includes shipping). From Paypal, click the "back" arrow button to return to this site. Thanks!
~ Jeff Fearnside
Bio
New Chapbook Out
Travelogue: Asia
At China’s Taklamakan (Go-in-and-you-won’t-come-out) Desert
Lake and Other Poems of Love in a Foreign Land by Jeff Fearnside (RPCV Kazakhstan, 2002–04)
Kent, Ohio: Standing Rock Cultural Arts
$12.00
February 2011
Reviewed by Kenneth C. Wylie (RPCV Sierra Leone, 1961–63)
I LIKE THESE POEMS. Reading them the first time through I did not stop to think about the ways I might enjoy them, ...
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Latest News
Feb. 14, 2012
Copies of the following anthologies that include my work are available or coming soon; click on each image for order information:
Happy Valentine’s Day! And Belated Happy Year of the Water Dragon! Whether the new year is counted as beginning on the Gregorian date of Jan. 1 or celebrated on the lunar new year as the Chinese and others do (Jan. 23 this year), it’s already off to a sweet start for me. My personal essay “Peace to the People: Inside Kyrgyzstan’s Yellow Revolution” was recently accepted to appear in the Fall 2012 issue of the Potomac Review. This is my second piece accepted for publication by this fine journal housed at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD; my short story “A Husband and Wife Are One Satan” appeared in the Fall 2009 issue.
A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service contains my essay ‘Itam,’ about my host father in Kazakhstan during my summer training for the Peace Corps. Now in a second edition, the stories are presented within three themes: ‘Making a Difference,’ ‘Life is Calling,’ and ‘Window to the World.’
Scent of Cedars contains my short story ‘Going for Broke,’ along with the work of 31 other writers from the Pacific Northwest, including Lisa Roullard, Kris Christensen, and Ken Letko.
Jan. 15, 2012
My poem “Still Life” has been accepted for publication by Qarrtsiluni for their Imitation Issue, to begin serializing later this month. Qarrtsiluni offers electronic delivery of original poetry, prose, and art, organized into regular, themed issues, with a new post every weekday. They have a full-content RSS feed, also available via email, and the podcast is available for free through the iTunes store. And beginning in 2009, their print division has been publishing poetry chapbooks as well. Visit their website here to find more information on all this.
The journal’s title comes from an Iñupiaq word that means “sitting together in the darkness, waiting for something to burst.”
COMING SOON: ‘Itam’ is being reprinted in a new anthology, The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays, to be published in late spring 2012 by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, Inc. The book will include 20 prizewinning essays by established and emerging writers on the subjects of race, ethnicity, culture, place, and identity. Acclaimed writer David Mura is contributing the introduction. Information on his numerous books and awards may be found on his website.
You may also read more of my work here.
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