Love, lust, longing and truth, 2017
“A debut volume of poetry explores the emotional highs and lows of love and all its incarnations. A bold and exhilarating collection of erotic, stream-of-consciousness poems.”
— KIRKUS REVIEWS
Love, Lust, Longing and Truth is Jennifer’s first book. Illusrated by the New York environmental aritst, Chantal Calato, the book is a collection of poems from the author’s experiences living and traveling in Europe since 2006. The poems are short, short stories that cross the mutable lines between love, lust, longing, and truth in our lives. Kite-Powell bares all and lets you into her world with abandon, hiding nothing from the reader. Calato's art in the book, brings the poems to life in original mixed media works that show the frenetic nature of emotion.
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deluge in a paper cup 2021
deluge in a paper cup, 2020 by Jennifer Kite-Powell, art by Chantal Calato.
Jennifer’s second book of poetry takes on a new format in the iconic chapbook style. In deluge in a paper cup, Jennifer’s insistent female voice takes shape and examines living in a world of pandemics, climate change and the chaotic nature of love.
deluge in a paper cup is a collection of 15 short poems in 25 pages that capture the unpredictable undulations of the human condition. Available on Amazon.com and around the world.
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comng soon.
thrust.
poems, essays & flash fiction from the other side
Very little grows on Sal Island. They import fresh fruit and vegetables from Portugal and some of the other more fertile islands in the archipelago of islands floating free in the sea.
Sal is a dry pancake of an island surrounded by an invisible wall of ferocious wind that whips up foamy-whiter-shade-of-pale waves that lure kite surfers to its shores from around the world.
A paradise made of sand and wind.
From January 28 to February 7, 2018, I stayed at a surf riad run by two wayward Italian surfers. It was packed with surfers from around the world. You could eat breakfast in the common area and look up at the blue sky while you ate a very brown, tiny banana.
You could hear the locals talking and children laughing outside the dusty, Caribbean-colored walls while you were holed up in safety from the sun, sand, and an unknown world.
That world, so foreign to my own, forced me to take stock of how our programming can restrict our minds.
On that wind-burnt island, I found a new love for myself, life and the idea of freedom. It was in this tiny crumbling riad the book thrust. poems, essays and flash fiction from the other side was born.
Coming 2025.