POETRY REVIEWS

Here's my review of Kendra DeColo's poetry collection, THIEVES IN THE AFTERLIFE, featured in the current issue of Cider Press Review: http://ciderpressreview.com/reviews/the-numinous-nighscapes-of-kendra-decolo/#.V-XUuiMrKRt

Another sensatioal collection of poetry is Cynthia Atkins's IN THE EVENT OF FULL DISCLOSURE. Here is my review of that in Cleaver Magazine:
http://www.cleavermagazine.com/?s=arya+f+jenkins&x=4&y=12

"In this poor body, composed of 100 bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes."  - Matsuo Basho

"Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do." - Stephen Spender

NIGHT OF THE LIVING STARS

NIGHT OF THE LIVING STARS

a reading of
flash and poetry
featuring

Pauline Beck
Douglas A. Fowler
Arya F. Jenkins

Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016
7-9 p.m.

The Mocha House
467 High Street
Warren, OH

Be prepared to enjoy yourself and hang with
poets and writers afterward.

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READING AND MUSIC AT THE SOAP GALLERY

ARYA F. JENKINS WITH MARK HANLEY

FRIDAY, SEPT. 2

@ 7 PM

THE SOAP GALLERY

117 S. CHAMPION STREET

YOUNGSTOWN

http://soapgalleryyo.squarespace.com/

SATURDAY AUGUST 6 AT THE SOAP GALLERY

TONIGHT

August 6, 2016
at The Soap Gallery
117 S. Champion Street
Youngstown
SABOTAGE
a collaboration
with Mark Hanley, Tony Armeni and Zac Hanley
@ 7 PM

I'll be performing an experimental work, "A Play of Jeans," which pays homage to Jean Seberg and the art of cinema.

UPCOMING POETRY PERFORMANCE GIGS

My poetry chapbook, Silence Has A Name, is scheduled for publication,
Feb. 15, 2016 via Finishing Line Press.

Subsequent to that, there will be readings at:

The Soap Gallery, 117 S. Champion Street, Youngstown
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Group Exhibition of Women Artists 

Poetry Reading: Thursday, April 14, from 7-8 p.m.

Writers: Mari Alschuler, Kelly Bancroft & Arya-Francesca Jenkins

at 7 p.m.
Ward Bakery spring open studio on April 30, 2016

STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS