Some Changes

 I retired from my job as co-director of the  New Engand College MFA program in Poetry on June 29, 2012.

I am currently developing a handmade papermaking cooperative at Tsegyalgar East in Conway.MA.

Please visit our blog Khandroling Papermaking Cooperative

My Annual Losar Poem: Year of the Water Dragon

Year of the Water Dragon

Hail imperial beast
Patient denizen of the underworld
Abiding in the watery abyss
According to tidal lunations
The ebb and flow of necessity
Biding your time beneath the surface
A Loch Ness of ephemeral appearance
Neither here nor there
Until rising at will into the mists of time
To present yourself
At this critical juncture
The Black Era
Honored guest
Master* of wisdom
Manifest perfection



Jacqueline Gens
Conway, MA
Tsegyalgar East
Losar 2012

*The Water Dragon Year is Male. Had it been designated Female, I would have written "Mistress."

Ruth Stone In Memorium (1915-2011)

NY Times Obituary

Chard deNiord's Obituary in The Guardian

The American Academy of Poets page on Ruth Stone

Chogyam Trungpa & Allen Ginsberg on Poetry

Chogyam Trungpa died in 1987 on April 4. Almost to the day ten years later Allen Ginsberg died on April 5, 1997.

Year of the Iron Rabbit

Image from: ewamchoden.org

Year of the Iron Rabbit

Losar Poem

Be fruitful

when you wander the warren

of your mind

Burrowing deep into the ground of stability.

To broaden your field of vision,

Scan the sky for predators of distraction.

Then, stop in your tracks,

O Fearsome Bunny--

Proverbial Trickster whose cunning

Outwits pundits of sophistry.

For your path

is a zig-zag

To liberation.

Time to change course in a flash

Defy convention

Give into laughter like Bugs BUNNY

Show your mettle and step up to the plate.

For this is your lucky year!

Jacqueline Gens

Tsegyalgar East

2011