Background
Janzen was born on December 5, 1933 in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan, Canada; the daughter of Henry Peter Wiebe and Anna Schultz Wiebe.
Fresno, California, United States
Fresno Pacific University
Fresno, California, United States
California State University
(Snake in the Parsonage includes the poems for which Jean ...)
Snake in the Parsonage includes the poems for which Jean Janzen received The Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Selected by a panel of major poets. Once again Jean Janzen shows us life - colored deeply and in irrepressible light. She finds both ecstasy and incompleteness - while waiting, at the piano and in the halls of the old people's home, lying in the field, shrieking in the cellar, standing at the blackboard.
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1995
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A cold wind, but not a bitter one, blows through the poems in this collection by celebrated poet, Jean Janzen. Here she writes about aging, intimate love, the bearing away of children, light, and as always, memory. A cold wind, but not a bitter one, blows through the poems in Part 1 of Jean Janzen's newest collection. Her refusal to turn aside from any difficulty, any loss, here presses her writing into firmer edges than ever before. She writes with cool tones; she witnesses now with a longer view, layers of life stacked against each other. But the subjects are her choice ones aging, intimate love, the bearing away of children, light, and always memory. How does she see so keenly above and below the surface at the same time? Motion and rhythms and round words roll through the poems in Part 2, the more familiar hallmarks of Janzen's rumbling universe. She brings longing to every page, and then calls us in, gently, yet irresistibly. Among these 43 new poems are "Skin and Air," "The Uprooting," "Lifting You," "Architecture of Falling," and "Holding On to the Walls." Janzen has received The Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of three books of poetry published by Good Books: Snake in the Parsonage, Tasting the Dust, and Piano in the Vineyard. A cold wind, but not a bitter one, blows through the poems in this collection by celebrated poet, Jean Janzen. Here she writes about aging, intimate love, the bearing away of children, light, and as always, memory.
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2008
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Award-winning and beloved poet, Jean Janzen, has written her memoir. Although she writes here in prose, Janzen's poetic voice is unmistakably present. And so she takes the reader with her into the depth and texture of what she has experienced.
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2012
Janzen was born on December 5, 1933 in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan, Canada; the daughter of Henry Peter Wiebe and Anna Schultz Wiebe.
Janzen attended Meade Bible Academy, Tabor College and Grace College. In 1968, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Fresno Pacific College. Also in 1982 Jean was given a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing and English from California State University.
Janzen began her career as a medical secretary at Wesley Memorial Hospital in 1954 and held it for three years. Then in 1961, she worked as a pediatrician in a private practice. In 1989, Jean became a teacher of poetry writing and literature at Fresno Pacific University and poetry writing at Eastern Mennonite University, where she worked for twelve years.
In addition, she was a private piano teacher at Los Angeles and at Fresno. Also Jean writes hymn texts, eight of which have appeared in "The Hymnal", the current Mennonite worship book. She represented the College Community Mennonite Brethren Church on the FPC Church Advisory Council.
(Snake in the Parsonage includes the poems for which Jean ...)
1995(A cold wind, but not a bitter one, blows through the poem...)
2008( Award-winning and beloved poet, Jean Janzen, has written...)
2012Janzen was a member of Fresno Poets Association. She served on the Fresno`s Pacific University board of directors from 1973 to 1979.
On July 2, 1954 Jean Janzen married Edwin Louis Janzen. They have four children.