Background
Jenkins, Paul Randall was born on April 9, 1942 in Des Moines. Son of Richard T. and Rachael (Holmes) Jenkins.
(These are bold poems, rugged and good, hard the way diamo...)
These are bold poems, rugged and good, hard the way diamonds should be, but the way coconuts are as well. These works both sustain and delight, but what I am sayings most is they crack open, and constantly. Past the tired cemetery where the three year old Asks what's that little city made of teeth These poems surprise and push, line by line. -- Alberto Rios, judge The Four Way Books Award Series
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Jenkins, Paul Randall was born on April 9, 1942 in Des Moines. Son of Richard T. and Rachael (Holmes) Jenkins.
Bachelor, Grinnell College, 1964. Master of Arts, Phd, University Washington, 1969.
Assistant professor English University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1969-1976. Associate professor American literature Federal University Brazil, 1980-1982. Associate professor English Elms College, Chicopee, Massachusetts, 1983-1989.
Associate professor poetry Hampshire College, Amherst, since 1987.
(These are bold poems, rugged and good, hard the way diamo...)
Archivist Town of Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1977-1978. Writer, historian, 1978-1980.
Married Barbara Benda, August 14, 1964 (divorced 1971). 1 child, Eve; married Ellen K. Watson, July 9, 1977. 1 child, Della.