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Jessie Lendennie is founder and Managing Director of Salmon Poetry Ltd, Ireland's most prolific poetry publisher (http://salmonpoetry.com). Since 1981 she has commissioned, edited and published over three hundred books and twenty-six issues of The Salmon International Literary Journal. Salmon is known for its ground-breaking poetry, in particular that of Irish women poets at a time when the poetry of women was generally being ignored. Salmon is also know for its international range - having a substantial list of American, British and Canadian poets. Jessie, a native of Arkansas, U.S.A., came to Ireland in 1981, after eleven years in London, England. She completed third level education at King's College, London, obtaining a B.A. Honours degree in Philosophy, with a Post Graduate degree in Education. She taught for two years in London, and two years at the Regional Technical College, Galway (now Galway Mayo Institute of Technology). Her own poetry was first published during her college days in London and she worked for two years with the Poetry Society during which time she developed an interest in publishing. In 1988 her book, a prose poem entitled 'Daughter', was published, followed in 1990 by 'The Salmon Guide to Poetry Publishing' and in 1992 by 'The Salmon Guide to Creative Writing in Ireland'. A new edition of 'Daughter', with added poems, was published in 2001, and reprinted in 2003. In 2007 she compiled and edited 'Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007',which includes poems from poets published by Salmon during those years. In 2009 she compiled and edited 'Poetry: Reading it, Writing It, Publishing It', which includes essays from poets and publishers on the art of poetry and the realities of the marketplace. In 2010 she compiled and edited 'Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology', which includes poems in celebration of dogs, from over 200 poets. She has given numerous workshops, lectures and writing courses in Ireland and abroad, including Yale University; Rutgers University; The Irish Embassy, Washington D.C; The University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Anchorage; MIT, Boston; The Loft, Minneapolis, MN; Café Teatre, Copenhagen, Denmark; the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Alfred Universary, Alfred, New York; The Irish American Cultural Centre, Chicago; The Bowery Poetry Club, New York City; and Canton University, NY. She is currently working on a new poetry collection, Walking Here'memoir ' To Dance Beneath the Diamond Sky'. PUBLICATIONS Books Daughter - a prose poem (Salmon Publishing/Signpost Press, 1988, reprinted 2001 with added poems) Anthologies Irish Spirit (ed. Patricia Monaghan. Wolfhound, 2001)
OTHER ACTIVITIES 1995
June 1989
June 1988
1986
1985
Sept '86 - Jan '87
1983
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS PRINT and INTERNET
RADIO & TELEVISION - (1988 - 1999)
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