Three Poems and a Nomination
This has been a season of struggle for me. I am challenging myself to enter the sanctuaries I find throughout my days. I’m pleased to...
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JENNA WYSONG FILBRUN, AUTHOR
Poetry
Jenna Wysong Filbrun writes poetry as a form of prayer and to connect with other writers and readers in the search for meaning and truth. Her poems rely heavily on nature to explore themes of love, suffering, loss, connection, belonging, and healing.
Her debut full-length collection of poetry, Away, was released with Finishing Line Press in July 2023.
Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Amethyst Review, Avocet, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Blue Heron Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Deep Wild, The Dewdrop, EcoTheo Review, Gyroscope Review, ONE ART, Snapdragon Journal, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, tiny wren lit, The Way Back to Ourselves, and Wild Roof Journal and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
She is also the author of The Unsaid Words (Finishing Line Press, 2020), a chapbook of poems from life with chronic illness.
For more, please see this 2023 Why I Write interview on The Dewdrop.
Filbrun's first full-length poetry collection, Away, was released in July 2023 with Finishing Line Press. Filbrun lives with weakened immunity due to chronic illness. In Away, she writes about the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of the most vulnerable, with whom she identifies. She faces the crushing power of collective harm, her small taste of it leading her both to a deeper understanding of the urgency needed to address it and a greater awareness of her own participation in it. With nature as her guide, she walks through the losses of faith, belonging, and loved ones toward a Love that is truly limitless.
Away
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