All right, now Genine Lentine.
Genine Lentine is the author of the chapbooks
Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments
on Splashes and Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model.
She's the co-author of The Wild Braid:
A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden,
and her poems, essays, and interviews
have appeared in everywhere from Diagram to The Oprah Magazine,
so she's got a beautiful range.
And I've had the pleasure of working with Genine
over the past few weeks.
The other day, I thought about how everyday
she brings some new adventure to the Poetry Center.
And she just has so much curiosity, and light.
And whether it's arranging her manuscript
on the windows of the guest house, which
is just so awesome to go to her and say, how are you
doing today?
And she said, well I'm rearranging my manuscript,
and she has all these pages taped onto the walls,
and it's just amazing to see the artist at work.
And from doing that to--
the other day, she came and said,
you know, I was talking to some scientists,
and I want to write these sonnets that combine
science and carbon dating.
And I'm just like, wow.
So she always has something new to bring.
And as Laynie said, in addition to coming here to write,
she's also taken her residency to a whole other level
as an educator.
And she's holding a workshop here at the Poetry Center
this Saturday, and the past three Mondays she's filled up
the library with people from the community,
and having these one on one poetry sessions
where they talk about poetry, and workshop their writings.
So she's really a triple whammy.
She's brought so much to the Poetry Center.
And she's just been a tremendous gift, not only to us
but to the whole community.
So please welcome Genine Lentine.
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