Jennifer Banks

@jenniferabanks

Executive Editor | poetry, religion, fiction, philosophy | writing a book about birth for

Joined May 2017

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    Jan 28

    I often fear I will not pass the “I am not a robot” test on websites. I mean are those taxis, or just cars? Crosswalks or just streets?

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  2. Part of every publishing course/internship/apprenticeship should be the exercise of writing something, pouring your whole being into it, sending it out to publishers of various sorts, and waiting in patient terror to see what happens. Keeps us honest.

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    Feb 1

    “Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.” Gertrude Stein

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  4. Feb 1

    On channeling voices we do not own: I was not expecting Hart Crane, a young, gay poet with no children who died by suicide to be one of the patron saints in my book on birth. But there he is: singing birth’s chaos and creativity more sublimely than anyone.

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    Jan 31
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    Jan 29

    Now available on : The first in a series by English's , "In Wordsworth's Footsteps." The documentary traces the life of William Wordsworth, described as a "creative radical" & one of the greatest English poets.

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  7. Jan 30

    One day I looked out my office window in New Haven and just happened to see Marilynne Robinson walking along slowly, going nowhere, headed tilted up, communing with the sky. Each time I grab for my phone while walking, I think of how far I fall short of Marilynne Robinson.

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    Jan 29
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    Nestorians know how to party.

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  9. Jan 29

    From Thomas Albert Howard’s fabulous manuscript for THE FAITHS OF OTHERS.

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  10. Jan 29

    One of the earliest (1200’s) recorded accounts of inter-religious dialogue: “When it was all over, the Nestorians and Saracens alike sang in loud voices, while the tuins [Buddhists] remained silent; and after that everyone drank heavily.”

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  11. Jan 28

    Job’s response to God rewarding his moral rectitude with profound suffering? I’M FED UP! Thanks to and for this terrific review of Edward Greenstein’s rebellious Job.

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  12. Jan 28

    It’s official: WHY I AM NOT A BUDDHIST is out! Happy pub date to and a big thanks to for this fantastic review, so perfectly timed to pub.

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  13. Jan 27

    A New Englander’s idea of ravishingly beauty. (Still-life through an Amtrak train window)

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  14. Jan 27

    I’ve long wanted to acquire/read a book called How To Write. But instead of talking about commas etc it would narrate the strange, terrible, inspiring, superstitious, destructive, mundane things authors do to get themselves to write. Examples please, from your life, or others.

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  15. Jan 27

    David Bentley Hart’s op-ed on hell in based on his book generated so much interest that they’ve published a series of letters in response. On fiery domains, sunny universalism, and our darkest inclinations.

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  16. Jan 26

    It seems a conversation worth having, given its pervasiveness and the demands of social media on authors’ lives? I realize the wind is blowing in another direction... but what do those winds leave behind? Some editors may have very different thoughts here.

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  17. Jan 26

    Editor’s observation: An author’s Twitter presence and their book sales (crude metrics both, of any human worth) seem to have no correlation. If anything, from where I stand, it’s an inverse correlation. You can’t serve two masters?

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  18. Jan 26

    “I’m looking for the kind of silence that yields clarity... I’m interested in the way our voices sound when we dip below the decibel level of politics.” - Tracy K. Smith

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  19. Jan 24

    Who holds the lease on time and on disgrace? What eats the pattern with ubiquity? Where are my kinsmen and the patriarchal race? The resigned factions of the dead preside. - Hart Crane

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  20. Jan 24

    I just registered for the March 26-28 Hope for a Planet in Peril conference organized by . Willie Jennings, , and many others presenting.

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