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Rose Jenny is a trans writer based in Tennessee. She co-runs the Writing for Recovery program at The Porch. Rose's chapbook, My Apocrypha, is available through Bottlecap Press. She is the recipient of the 2025 Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize from Gasher Press. Rose’s other selected poems are published/forthcoming in Foglifter Journal, SWWIM Every Day, Oroboro Lit Journal, South Florida Poetry Journal. among others. She has written, directed, and/or devised stage plays through Marymount Manhattan College, Theatre Plastique at The Bushwick Starr, Shout Alone Theatre Company at the AITI Theater, and elsewhere. Her writing has received additional support from Tin House and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Rose earned her MFA in Creative Writing from University of Miami.

SATURDAY, JAN 10

1-9PM

@ FREE NASHVILLE POETRY LIBRARY

507 HAGAN ST.

(UPSTAIRS)

LIVE GENERATIVE POETRY

Join FNPL from 1-9 PM on January 10th for live, generative poetry! Our poet in residence Rose Jenny will be writing in response to any book brought before her from the Free Nashville Poetry Library's extensive catalog of collections/literary magazines/anthologies/etc. 

If you have any questions on how to navigate our shelves, she will also be on site to provide organizational insight and book recommendations.

SUNDAY, JAN 11

6:30PM 

@ COOP GALLERY

507 HAGAN ST.

HOW TO FIRE A CANON: DISRUPTIVE POETICS IN ADAPTATION WORKSHOP

In an age of AI-induced psychosis and mass book bans in our public libraries, how do we resist an onslaught of fatalistic content slop and solipsistic talking heads? 

How to Fire a Canon, led by resident poet Rose Jenny, seeks to plumb the depths of the Free Nashville Poetry Library's catalog for answers bigger than the individual.

Those attending will pick a book from our collection at the beginning of the workshop, either from the resident poet's curated list OR from directly off our shelves. Attendees will then select at least one poem. For the next two hours, that poem, and the book it comes from, will be your guide. Every exercise will mine literary elements from your selected texts, lifting vocab and syntax, voice and perspective, that we will rebuild into new, responsive poetry. A collective canon, redesigned and at the ready, to be carried out of the library.

If you've been wanting to dive into our offerings at FNPL, this is your introduction. If you've been wanting to expand your palate for poetry, this is your sample platter. 

We hope to see you there!

SATURDAY, JAN 17

7PM 

@ COOP GALLERY

507 HAGAN ST.

POETRY READING

Join us January 17th for a reading of new and selected works from poet/playwright Rose Jenny! With special guests Simba Alik, Kath Oung, Plum Champlin, Alexis Ozden.