"I didn’t have a serious relationship – the kind where reciprocity is frank and passionate; the kind where you love making the other happy, even at your own expense; the kind where you admit to sweet dependency by consent; the kind where you’re humbled by how your flaws stick out like thorns and are miraculously forgiven – until I arrived in Flint.
And most of those relationships were with cats. "
-- from "Cats are Sublime" in East Village Magazine, January '09. Click (here) for the whole essay.
Welcome to the website of Jan Worth – novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, teacher and Flint River canoeist.
See new poems Jan recently debuted at Longway Planetarium's wonderful new series, "Poetry Under the Stars.."
"Old love is hard, but also sweet.
Maple syrup surging fierce and rich from a craggy tree..."
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-- from "Old Love"
"On the only part of turning earth I knew
Ohio was already dark as it would often be,
Perhaps it was that Midwest night
that drove my dad to Chinatown. "
--- from "Chinese Bell for the Summer Solstice"
"Black waves spread out
under waning moonrise. I guess
I missed
the full monty, and what’s left
Is less, is less, a lunar solstice
cringeing into soggy waxen dawn."
-- from "Winter Solstice, LA"
Click on Events for past appearances, with photos!
::: NEWS UPDATES :::
Six Minutes in New York:
Jan Speaks Out on Peace Corps Tonga, Night Blind, and Indie Publishing.
Night Blind: Top Ten Finalist in Literary Fiction, ForeWord Magazine "Book of the Year" Awards for 2006 books from independent and small presses.
Night Blind is the saga of a ragtag bunch of Peace Corps volunteers grappling with a murder in the remote and eccentric Kingdom of Tonga. For more, click here...
Night Blind is available at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Flint (Genesee Valley Mall) and Torrance (Del Amo Mall).
