ORYGUN: Poems by Jessica Tyner

Ms. Tyner's bear in mind is so sensory, her mind's eye so rooted, her language so up entrance, and her sensibility so rounded, that she has no use of the simply fanciful. there's no glitz for appears to be like the following, no buying and selling on fragility. This e-book will knock your socks off.
—Marvin Bell, nationwide ebook Award Winner for Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship for artistic Arts, Winner

Jessica Tyner masterfully conjures up the gut-punch of human life, wielding sharply crafted phrases that sure like a well-recognized melody threatening to bend out of track with each revelation.
—Jared Goode, Playwright Orange is the recent Musical

ORYGUN
ORYGUN takes you domestic, marrying confessional poetry, whereas tapping deep into the reader’s cravings for an entire literary event. This selection of narrative poems contact on how the landscapes that helped increase us additionally form us, the intricacies of affection with ourselves and others, and shared human struggles of wish and wish, as we teeter on ever-changing, emotional edges.

We invite you to take pleasure in powerfully evocative and wonderfully written poems from Jessica's 3rd e-book of poetry, ORYGUN.

Why ORYGUN? “It’s Ory-gun, no longer Ora-gone.” local Oregonians—or those that have assimilated impressively well—have given this admonishment quite a few occasions. How somebody proclaims “Oregon” tells you if they’re a neighborhood or now not. Jessica Tyner, born and raised in Oregon, grew up seeing the well-known ORYGUN bumper stickers. As you meander father north in the direction of Portland, you’ll spot a peppering of “It’s Willamette, dammit!” stickers jumbled together with the needful “Keep Portland bizarre” instructions. definite, Oregon is a kingdom thick with towns, streets and rivers with strange, frequently local American-inspired, names and pronunciations from sofa (“Cooch”) to The Dalles (not “Dallas”—that’s one other urban in Oregon!).

For Oregonians, right pronunciation of the gorgeously eco-friendly country is greater than a question of delight. It’s a mild nod to the wealthy local American heritage of the quarter, and likewise rather like a mystery password to a truly specific club.

AUTHOR
Jessica Tyner Mehta is the writer of The final unique Petting Zoo and What Makes an continually via Tayen Lane Publishing, and the inaccurate form of Indian via Wyatt MacKenzie Publishing. An award-winning poet, novelist and author, her paintings has seemed in over 50 magazines and journals worldwide, together with “Ray’s highway overview” which nominated her poem “Speleology” for a Pushcart Prize.

She has been a featured reader at a variety of literary occasions together with India’s foreign Poetry pageant (New Delhi), Wordstock (Portland, Ore.), the overseas Women’s Writing Guild summer time convention (Allentown, Penn.), and Berl’s Poetry book shop (Brooklyn). Jessica additionally reads and plays her paintings as a “poetry whore” with the foreign Poetry Brothel sequence, appearing in either Portland and Brooklyn. The exhibit brings overseas poets to the level to include a character in a Twenties themed occasion the place buyers buy a poet’s time for personal readings. She plays below the degree identify “Savage,” a nod to her local American heritage.

Jessica got a Writers within the faculties (WITS) residency from Literary Arts, a educating artist fellowship, and was once a founding member of the organization’s Writers of colour committee. A confessional poet who is based seriously on honesty, transparency and narrative methods to writing, her paintings has been applauded through poets Marvin Bell and Luis Chaves. Jessica counts poets Kim Addonizio and Li-Young Lee as her maximum poetic inspiration.

Jessica Tyner Mehta is a local Oregonian and member of the Cherokee Nation.