Books
![Jena’s new collection of poems caps off a year of darkness with these words: “The sun’s up there somewhere.” This book is equal parts invitation, prayer, protest, and love song to the pain and beauty of humanity and everyday life.“[These poems] sing…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c363b0a1aef1dd80620e408/1548183696567-KY5XQS4SBANNWQ22D8LW/Why+I+was+Late+for+our+meeting+%7C+Jena+Schwartz)
Jena’s new collection of poems caps off a year of darkness with these words: “The sun’s up there somewhere.” This book is equal parts invitation, prayer, protest, and love song to the pain and beauty of humanity and everyday life.
“[These poems] sing a kind of blues laced with threads of hope.” ~ Sue Ann Gleason
Available on Amazon.
A memoir through poems written over the course of fifteen years, tracing one woman’s fierce journey through marriage, motherhood, and coming out–when she risked everything she knew in order to claim what she had denied for so long: herself.
“A travelogue across love’s mysteries and longings. Sensual, romantic, insistent. Jena traces the epic battle in the heart’s final surrender to freedom.” ~ Karen Maezen Miller
Available on Amazon.
Blending poetry and prose, the personal and political, and the ordinary with a 30,000-foot view, this is the story of what happens over the course of a year, after life falls apart and reconfigures again. For anyone who has ever wished love could be easy.
“This collection reminds me to see, to stop, to flow, to go easy — and yet at the same time most of these pieces are so intensely personal that they add up to a self-portrait. Jena trusts us, her readers, to receive the gift of a life shared, these singular intimacies and passions of an ever-shifting, challenging, beautiful life. Somehow she really does manage to be intimate and universal at once.” ~ Katrina Kenison
Available on Amazon.
