Poetry
Early Language, Quite Simply
Photo by Nadia Chaudhury.Contributor
Jennifer BartlettJENNIFER BARTLETT is author of (a) lullaby without any music and co-editor of Beauty is a Verb. She is currently writing a biography of Larry Eigner. Bartlett lives in Greenpoint with the writer Jim Stewart, their son Jeffrey, and many animals.
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