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Lynne Jensen Lampe

Lynne Jensen Lampe’s poetry appears in Stone Circle Review, Okay Donkey, One, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, THRUSH, and other journals, as well as anthologies in the US, UK, and Germany. Her debut collection, Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press, 2022), an Eric Hoffer Book Award winner and finalist for the Phillip H. McMath Award, concerns motherhood, mental illness, and antisemitism. A finalist for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize.

Poetry

Fall 2025

Proverbial

By Lynne Jensen Lampe

The Kenyon Review · “Proverbial” by Lynne Jensen Lampe I want to write the poemwhere Jesus himself puts grainalcohol in the grape juice,tells the cafeteria lady he forgothis punch card […]