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The latest news:  On November 7, 2023 Jeanne’s memoir, Leaping from the Burning Train: A Poet’s Journey of Faith will be published by Slant Books. You can choose from several options to pre-order the book on the Slant website

Jeanne Murray Walker is the award-winning author of 9 volumes of
poetry and one memoir as well as a number of plays which have been
performed in theaters across the country and in London. She is an
Emeritus Professor at The University of Delaware, where she taught
for 40 years and headed the Creative Writing Concentration.  Jeanne
currently serves as a poetry Mentor in The Seattle Pacific Low
Residency MFA Program
.  From her home outside Philadelphia
she blogs about the troubling politics of our time, reading and writing,
and the surprising power of stillness.   She travels widely to speak
and read her poems in places ranging from The Library of Congress
to Romania, from Italy to Texas Canyon Country. You can find her
papers and letters archived at Wheaton College’s Buswell Library
and at The University of Delaware’s Morris Library. Jeanne has
appeared on PBS television and is frequently interviewed on the radio.

A Note from Jeanne

I’m delighted you’ve stopped by. Please linger a while to browse. Read some poems. Check out my blog and speaking schedule.  If you’re near an event where I’ll be speaking, feel free to attend. If you’d like to read my blog click here.  We can join forces to work for a more thoughtful world.

Jeanne Murray Walker

THE STATUE IN SPRING

Let’s make this one about a lion. And it might just as well be flanking the Art Museum steps, paw holding the world down, falling asleep on peace treaties, bells, wrecked cars. What love I have goes to such quiet. He lies more still than any of us can imagine being. Like the last voice saying one last thing, frozen so we can see it: glory of fur and blind absolute eyes, dreaming us while grit goes on falling through air. So suppose one day the stone lion lifts a paw, the sky films gray, the stores close down. The last heel’s cobbled. The wind stops. At two o’clock by the Museum fountain a sandwich sticks in my throat. The lion turns his head, casually shaking off sunlight, clearing his mind of the idea of us. He gets up, kneads the marble and slowly strolls off like someone we might have loved, now on his way to becoming something else.