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Jeannie E. Roberts
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artist | author | poet | poetry editor @ Halfway Down the Stairs
ON A CLEAR NIGHT, I CAN HEAR MY BODY SING (Kelsay Books, 2025) THE ETHEREAL EFFECT: A COLLECTION OF VILLANELLES (Kelsay Books, 2022) AS IF LABYRINTH: PANDEMIC INSPIRED POEMS (Kelsay, 2021)
Thank you to Bruce Taylor, Curator of Volume One’s Local Lit, for including my poem in the June 12th issue. volumeone.org/articles/202...
LOCAL LIT: 'Potatoes, Prayers, and Sunfish at Dusk'
My maternal grandparents emigrated from Sweden— a down-to-earth, persevering couple, they made their home in Minnesota ...
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June 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
1. “Ginkgo Leaf Series: Stylized Fans”
2. “Ginkgo Leaf Series: Attentive to the Season” (with haiku)

**Thank you to Editor/Publisher Sasha Wizansky and Contributing Editor Matthea Harvey for publishing my drawings.

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April 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Happy to have two drawings included in Issue One of Pencil Magazine, now available in print . . . pencilmagazine.bigcartel.com/product/penc...
Pencil Magazine Issue One
The theme is "Attention" and 29 artists and writers explored attention using graphite on paper. We are very excited to share the...
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April 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
March 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Many thanks to editors Kate Copeland and Lorette C. Luzajic, The Ekphrastic Review, for including “Your Core Is an Orchard, Brims with the Wisdom of Apples” within the Jackson Challenge of responses. Link to collection: www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
Dyane Jackson: Ekphrastic Writing Responses, Curated by Kate Copeland
​ Core Questions That lore of Law, set garden piece, though end of peace in apple arms, the weapon of male dominance. Is spillage caused in guilty stance, an upward glance becoming stare - how dare...
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March 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Halfway Down the Stairs celebrates its 70th themed issue, MIDNIGHT. Congratulations to all of our contributors in the March publication!

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Halfway Down the Stairs
Quarterly poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction
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March 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Thank you to Lorette C. Lucajic and The Ekphrastic Review for including my poem “A Meditation on Transparency”, in the Picabia Challenge of responses. Link: www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
February 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My proof copy arrived! Excited for the launch of my 9th book, On a Clear Night, I Can Hear My Body Sing, forthcoming from Kelsay Books.
February 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
January 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM