jrouse
@jrouse
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Poet & Playwright. Acid & Tender (@Mistress_Tweet), Riding with Anne Sexton (https://t.co/Zz2FwXG6Tz). New chap: A Trickle of Bloom Becomes You.
Iowa City, IA
Joined December 2008
Thanks to @SWWIMmiami for this #tbt. 🎠🎠🎠
From “Carousel #2” by Jen Rouse @jrouse
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The art of the line that tightens the heart, that pulls the breath from one. The choices are the poem is the brother and the music. ❤️ to the amazing @susanlleary.
Have been wanting to place a poem in Pedestal Magazine since I started submitting, so it means a great deal to have “Lilacs, Music, Boy” featured in the new issue. Big thanks to John Amen and the editorial team for this joy, this kindness! Read the issue: https://t.co/frbsd9BcB8
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Thanks to Sweet: A Literary Confection associate editors Ryan Cheng & Robert Annis and Managing Editor Katie Riegel for including my work in the 2025 special issue. Shoutout to Andy Braithwaite for all the web work. https://t.co/m9EXjqjVO4
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Convenience My daughter calls my gym a cult,my desire at this age to be alive inmuscle and sweat a mysteryto youth. Perimenopause is the newlittle black dress I wear to the Casey’sdown the block, a…
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I love a beautiful story that reads like a poem. “those symbols that line a tomb. An enclosed language, yet untranslatable, unheard. Enclosed. Yes, entombed.” @melostrom 🔥🔥🔥🧡
Excited to have a new flash in the wonderful Lost Balloon today.❤️
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Being an Elizabeth Kostova fellow in Bulgaria changed my life in so many amazing ways. Thanks to @ninthletter for featuring the work from all the dear friends I made during that time.
Check out the new feature live on https://t.co/Ml1KtHU3IW feature poems from the eight poetry fellows of Elizabeth Kostova Foundation's 2024 Koprivshtitsa Poetry Conference in Bulgaria. Thank you to the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and the poets!
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Gorgeous lines to linger over.
I have a new poem in The Women’s Issue of The Arkansas International (@thearkint) that I'm really proud of & happy to share: "Strawberry Season" in praise of my mother. This poem is also forthcoming in MORE FLOWERS (@triohousepress 2026)! I hope you give it a read! 🖤♥️⬇️
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I’ve waited a long time for this one. My first full-length collection. So grateful to be publishing with the fantastic team @harbor_review! 🧡🧡🧡
Our first title for the 2026 year has been named! 🥳 We can’t wait to bring you Jen Rouse’s “Constant Hum of Elsewhere” early 2026! • #indiepublishing #indiepublisher #newbook #newpoetry #2026
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Heck yes! This book!!!! This amazing poet!!! 💙💙💙
Such a happiness to see DRESSING THE BEAR (@triohousepress) included on @POETSorg’s 2024 Featured Fall Books List alongside such fabulous collections, including COACHELLA ELEGY by my pressmate, @ChrisGullette_! 💙⬇️
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Thank you, beautiful poet-friend @CDanaherH. So glad this book got to spend time with one so dear. 🧡🧡🧡
“I said, How do we / make it answer?” Such a beautiful collection by @jrouse!! ✍️💗🪷 Her precision & concision in each line, in each poem, like a scalpel opening, revealing, accessing depth beneath. Jen, thank you for sharing your brilliant poetry!❤️ #poetry #FRAGMENTSOFV
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My friend @CDanaherH has such amazing gifts! 💜
There is, in the beat of every heart, a deep #awareness so complete, the need to touch, to see, to speak is #obsolete. #vsspoem
#vss365
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Join us on Facebook live for an extraordinary evening of literature featuring 4 of our esteemed authors: - **Matthew** - **Shanta** - **Jen** - **Elizabeth** Don't miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in the worlds created by these talented writers! https://t.co/QSGurP0O1t
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Cozy up with these reads that are now available: ☁️Elizabeth Catanese: “Reiteration / Relationship” ☁️Matthew Hittinger: “THOUGHT*FROST*VOODOO” ☁️Jen Rouse: “Fragments of V” https://t.co/6YwMTjtWWn
#poetry #indiepublishing #indiepublisher #poetrycommunity
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“As complicated as the relationship was, it was easy. We really liked one another. I think more than anything, the book is a conversation between me and him, or a continuation of the one we were always having.”—@susanlleary This profound interview. This intensely important book.
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I’ll be here! With this great group! @harbor_review does such a wonderful job supporting authors. Super grateful. 💚💜💚💜
Join us on Facebook live for an extraordinary evening of literature featuring 4 of our esteemed authors: - **Matthew** - **Shanta** - **Jen** - **Elizabeth** Don't miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in the worlds created by these talented writers! https://t.co/QSGurP0O1t
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Mocha!!! I love her. 💛💛💛 Her human is also top-notch. 🥰🤗😘
“If there is ice/ I will find you.” Mocha & I are spending time this morning with @jrouse’s FRAGMENTS OF V. A stunning collection, poetry lovers!📚❤️
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