Before You Know It: Prose Poems 1970-2005

Prose Poems from 35 years with a forward by Mark Rylance

Louis Jenkins poems have been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 1999 (Scribner, 1999) and Great American Prose Poems (Scribner, 2003) His books of poetry include An Almost Human Gesture (1987), All Tangled Up With the Living (1991), Nice Fish: New and Selected Prose Poems, winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Just Above Water, The Winter Road and Sea Smoke. His most recent book is North of the Cities, published by Will o the Wisp Books in 2007. Louis Jenkins has read his poetry on A Prairie Home Companion and was a featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in 1996 and at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Aldeburgh, England in 2007. Louis Jenkins is currently working with Mark Rylance, actor and former director of the Globe Theatre, on a stage production titled Nice Fish! based on Mr. Jenkins poems. There was a trial performance of the work at Theatre Row, New York City on December 15, 2008