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Last Minute Connection, Denver International Airport – A Poem Hybrid by Lynne Jensen Lampe & Robert Frede Kenter & A Video Reading of a New Poem by Lynne Jensen Lampe

Last Minute Connection, Denver International Airport

The Poem: Last Minute Connection, Denver International Airport by poet Lynne Jensen Lampe presented as a visual text/image hybrid. Mustard background, burgundy text, green and blue abstracted collage by Robert Frede Kenter photos from a wedding, two sisters glancing at each other, and ambient fields behind in shades of blue. Poem is about the poet meeting her sister after many years text includes: "Already i'm comparing myself/with this just surfaced sibling and she hasn't told me/yet about her dance troupe in Chicago, her trek/in Nepal. Her three-octave vocal range and ability/to plumb houses. Her ex-husband, ex-wife, and lovers. How hard she works to control her mania without pills"

Love Language, a Video Reading by Lynn Jensen Lampe:

Lynne Jensen Lampe’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in journals such as the Gasconade Review, The Inflectionist Review, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and THRUSH and anthologies in the US, UK, and Germany. Her debut collection, Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press, 2022), a 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award winner and finalist for the 8th Annual McMath Book Award, concerns motherhood, mental illness, and antisemitism. A Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize finalist, she edits academic writing, reads for Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and lives with her husband and two dogs in Columbia, MO. https://lynnejensenlampe.com 

Robert Frede Kenter is a poet, prose writer, and visual artist, EIC/Publisher of IceFloe Press & is widely published internationally. A new book, FATHER TECTONIC, is forthcoming from Ethelzine Press 2025. Robert created the image/layout and form for Lynne’s poem, “Last Minute Connection” and is the curator of Geographies Series. Twitter: @frede_kenter, IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22

Banner Art: Bouquet a vispo by Robert Frede Kenter (2024).

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