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Our author, Dr. Lynn Job

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HIGHLIGHTS
Displays & Publications

Display - "Abridged Quotes & Other Selections by poet Lynn Job," A Private Showing of Devotional Love Scripts at the popular banquet hall "The Windsor Stables," Lincoln, Nebraska (May 2, 2008)

Publication "Anchored in Perath" in Notations 21: an anthology of innovative musical notation, Theresa Sauer (New York, NY: Mark Batty Publisher, 2008): p.113 | ISBN-10:0979554640, ISBN-13:978-0979554643

Publication "Flights to Patmos" in Windhover: a Journal of Christian Literature, vol. V, ed. Donna Walker-Nixon, et al. (Belton, TX: Univ. of Mary Hardin-Baylor, 2000): p.103 | ISBN# 0-9674523-3-3 | ISSN# 1522-2314


Poetry



HIGHLIGHTS
Readings & Residency

Readings

- Book Tour - Notations 21 - Films and readings at Art Six Coffee House - Denton, Texas (November 9, 2009, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.). Anchored in Perath by Job, and other works with Theresa Sauer. More details about this score (book p.113) and the associated poem Sacred Stream IV: Meditations by the River Euphrates sold by Buckthorn Music Press | here |

- "CD Launch & Readings" - at The KGB Bar - a Vox Novus Production - 60x60 Project, the Double Album - 85 East 4th Street, Manhattan (East Village), New York (August 1, 2007, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.). Two new poems by Job for the occasion. More details and press from Buckthorn Records | here |

- Tarrant County College - South Campus Recital Hall, Fort Worth "Women in Music: A Celebration!" Two poems and a trumpet solo by Job performed on stage. (March 25, 2004)

- "Open Microphone (10 minutes with Lynn Job)" - Teaching Poetry: an Innovative Summer Institute for Poets & Teachers - Sonoma Country Day School, and, Iron Horse Ranch & Vinyard - Santa Rosa, California (July 24-27, 2002)

- "Flights to Patmos & Other Selections - 30 minutes with poet Lynn Job," The 5th Annual Belton Writer's Festival sponsored by the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (January 4-6, 2001)

Poet-in-Residence

- The Writer's Place (April-May, 1999) Knockeven, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland, a past venture of Salmon Publishing, Ltd. ("Unquestionably the most important publisher of poetry in Ireland" -- Fintan O'Toole, writer/journalist. )

- Concurrent activities with this appointment . . .

(1) -- "The Muse and the Mirror: Conference on Contemporary Women's Poetry in Ireland," Trinity Literary Society (Trinity College Dublin);

(2) -- Salmon Publishing's Writer's Workshop, reviewed by Louise East of The Irish Times (as an embedded participant);

(3) -- Bill McNamara's The Flowing Tide: Traditional Irish Music School, Doughmore, Doonbeg, County Clare;

(4) -- Prepared poetry readings by invitation for the intended launch of The New Hedge School, Doolin, County Clare. (April-May, 1999)

Buckthorn Books, a division of Buckthorn Studios (SM), manages rights, contracts, appearances, and archiving for author Lynn Job (essays, scripts, poetry, short stories, articles). We handle no other authors at this time. Do not send manuscripts. Voice mail = (USA) 940.566.0315

News - In Development

Lynn Job's largest poetry manuscript in work will one day release as a monograph edition. It contains mature themes of mystical, devotional metaphors and allegory centered around the Judeo-Christian canon and literary models such as Song of Songs and the books of Hosea and Jeremiah. Currently at 50 poems, many more will be added or replaced. No print deadline is set. Readings are advertised above, as applicable.
  • Much creative inspiration drawn from the Dead Sea Scrolls, and, popular histories by Scottish scholar E. Raymond Capt. Buy his books from Artisan Publishers | here | among other vendors.

    " . . . I was also greatly smitten by the opening line(s) of your "Wayfarer."
    They are a beautiful, ritual opening."

    [Wayfarer: Six Degrees of an Abandoned Soul in six parts]
    Dana Gioia
    (poet, critic, & Chariman, National Endowment for the Arts)

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