IN THE NEWS: poet and teacher Jennifer Merrifield
Yesterday, the Keyser Mineral Daily News-Tribune mentioned that Fairmont native Jennifer Merrifield was recently named a visiting instructor of English at Potomac State College of WVU. This is good news. She is the poet’s equivalent of a Heisman Trophy winner, with all the awards she has won.
Click here to read some of her poems online.
Of her appearance last fall in the literary magazine Fourteen Hills, one reviewer said:
” ‘Incognito’ by Jennifer Merrifield stands out, ‘fingerprint whorls on wineglass for I’m mute to my name my / tongue having / forgotten its place here with your lovely / big desk and plans outspread.’ “
Among the many places her poems have appeared is the anthology “Wild Sweet Notes II.”
She says, “Few things feel better than seeing a student surprise themselves with what they can do.”
