Jennings, Fabian
Fabien Jennings, Canada (b. 1942), poetry includes: Pigs. Jennings is a poet, playwright and public speaker from one of Canada’s prairie provinces.
Archives: Pig Poets
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
Jerrell, Carrie
United States, (b. 1976) Pig Wrestling Well-greased and terrified, it screeches its way into the pen where we four high-school girls, last year’s division champs, anticipate its first evasive move. It barrels left, zig-zagging right between us while we slog barefoot, our jeans rolled to the knees, through the muck three inches deep. The crowd … Read more
Johnson, Mike
Michael Oliver “Mike” Johnson, New Zealand, (b. 1947), poetry includes: leaf torn and storm. Johnson is a poet, fiction writer, creative writing educator, lecturer and publisher. He currently has over a dozen full-length novels, short story collections and books of poetry to his name.
Johnston, George
George Johnston, Canada (1913-2004), poetry includes: Ribs, Roasts, Chops, Bacon. Johnston was a Canadian poet, translator, and academic. He then joined the English department at Carleton University, Ottawa, in 1950 and taught there until retirement in 1979.
Jones, Charlene
Charlene Jones, Canada, (b. 1952), poetry includes: Pig Dreams. Jones is a poet, writer, reviewer, practicing psychotherapist, meditation teacher and newspaper correspondent. Her work as a psychotherapist and teacher involves the practice of Buddhist Vajrayana Meditation, Vipassana, and of all forms of western psychotherapeutic modalities.
Jones, Larry
Lawrence Worth “Larry” Jones, United States, (contemporary), poetry includes: a new attitude and El Bambi. Jones is a poet, writer, activist and educator. He has spent over fifteen years teaching literature and creative writing to middle school students, presently at Hofstra Gifted Academy.
Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove (The)
The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove, a poetic work by an anonymous author in which pigs are the subject, inspiration, a significant component of the imagery, a thematic form or a symbol.
Just, Chelsea
Chelsea Just, Australia, (b.1995) is a poet, poetry includes: The Grunter Hunter. In 2008, 13 year old Chelsea Just wrote a ballad for her long distance education English class. She then performed it at the local and regional trials of the Australian National Poetry Slam. Chelsea was eventually one of the 18 finalists from an original field of 600 in the 2008 Australian National Poetry Slam finals in Sydney. She did not win, but continues to write and perform.
Kaho, Simone
Simone Kaho, New Zealand, (b. 1978), poetry includes: Pretty. Kaho is a poet with Tongan ancestry, part of a new generation of Pasifika voices. Anahera Press published her first book of verse, Lucky Punch in August 2016.
Kasischke, Laura
Laura Kasischke, United States, (b. 1961), poetry includes: The Cause of All My Suffering and Old Song. Kasischke is a poet, novelist and educator. She has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and several Pushcart Prizes. She is currently a Professor of English Language in the MFA program at the University of Michigan.