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Jacqueline Marcus
Publications:
Close to the Shore by Jacqueline Marcus
Michigan State University Press
Read Selected Poems
from Close to the Shore
Jacqueline Marcus' poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, The Kenyon Review,
The Ohio Review, The Literary Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Journal, Poetry
International, Hayden's Ferry Review, College English, The Sycamore Review, The Seattle
Review, 5AM, Iris, Appalachia, The Mid-American Review, Passages North, Ascent, Southern
Humanities Review, The Cider Press Review, Poet Lore, Faultline, The Yalobusha Review, The
Bellowing Ark
On Line Publications
ThreeCandles, PoetryMagazine, Samsara Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review, NewtopiaMagazine,
CommonDreams.org
Satires and Political Commentaries
Exquisite
Corpse,Washington Post, Slate, Common Dreams,Freedom Forum First Amendment
Calendar (firstamendmentcenter.org)
Anthologies:
DIGERATI: 20 Contemporary Poets in the Virtual World 2006;
The 1997 ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE & YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN POETRY, RED HEN ANTHOLOGY and
a Chapbook from White Heron Press 1998. She was a semifinalist in the
Nation/Discovery 1997 Contest.
History
During her childhood years
Jacqueline Marcus attended Sidwell Friends and studied painting at Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington D.C. She loved to draw winter trees, which have become a central
motif in her poems. She received her undergraduate degree in Philosophy at the
University of California Santa Barbara and her master's in Humanities at Southern Oregon
University. She teaches philosophy at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo and is the
editor of the online poetry journal, ForPoetry.com.
Trained
as a philosopher, Jacqueline Marcus follows the ancient themes of Plato's Allegory of
the Cave—the longing to know what lasts in a world of shadows—as her poetry
traces a metaphorical journey from the river to the sea, exploring the natural world and
reconciling its beauty with its suffering.
Praise for Close to the Shore
"Jacqueline
Marcus's Close to the Shore presents us with a poet whose prodigious talents,
uncanny emotional range, and (dare one say it?) profound spiritual sympathies, have opened
up a space in the human heart where every thoughtful reader will feel welcome. This
is a poet of abundance and wonder, a poet who reminds us that poetry is, in some very
elemental way, "the insistence of Form, / each note, an integration, / each note, a
prayer-wheel turning."
—Sherod Santos, Department of English, University of Missouri
"An enormously
powerful and accomplished poet. Her poems all have extraordinary authority and
presence. There is a grace to these poems that always pleases, and an intelligence
to their meditations that is always compelling."
—David St. John, Department of English, UCLA
"Jacqueline Marcus's poems have
all the suppleness and hesitation of thought itself. They wander through so many
dimensions - philosophical, personal, and political - on the way to a condition which,
they seem to say, may or may not exist, but which is nevertheless luminous, intelligent,
and serene."
—John Koethe, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin
Richly metaphorical and quietly bursting
with deliciously demure eloquence, Close to the Shore meanders in and out of the
depths of beauty and pain, powered by an immensely thoughtful set of poems which will
victor over many a reader's heart.
Marcus, a philosophy professor — and
editor for ForPoetry.com — is an
extraordinarily gifted and successful poet who here never ever missteps — or fails to
command a well-deserved spot on center stage.
Delicious.
—The Boox Review:
Good Reviews for Good Books
http://www.thebooxreview.com/roundup.htm
Political Commentaries by
Jacqueline Marcus:
CommonDreams.org:
A Nation of Morons:
Illiteracy and the high college dropout rate
If You're For Torture, You're a Torturer
Targeted by Conservatives for Teaching Philosophy
Voting: Is it all for nada?
If You Vote for War, You Go to War
TV News Viewership Declines,
Internet Use Rises
The Politics
of Restraint
New Times San Luis Obispo
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