"The Way it Should Be" A poem by Ivan Jenson.

 

 

Ivan Jenson

An expatriate of the New York City art scene Ivan Jenson moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan where he experienced a life-changing epiphany which led him to an unexpectedly successful literary career. He has two novels, Dead Artist and Seeing Soriah, published by Hen House Press, New York and over four hundred and fifty poems published online, in print and in anthologies in the US, UK and Europe. Jenson's poems have been featured in many of the top twenty online and print magazines in the US and several of his poems have been turned into mini films. Jenson's trademark style features, wit, wordplay and unexpected twists. This debut comprehensive collection, features poems which run the gamut from hilarious to heartbreaking, from complex to deceptively simple and direct, while always showcasing his unique one of a kind mastery with words. This book also includes his whimsical line drawings. Completely original and always entertaining, Ivan Jenson moves to the forefront of the poetry world with this collection, Media Child and Other Poems.

Soon to released in 2014.

Ivan Jenson's book of poetry, "Media Child and Other Poems."

Published by Hen House Press, New York

 

Ivan Jenson's poems have appeared in Word Riot, BlazeVox, Dunes Review, UNDERGROUND VOICES MAGAZINE, Your Dailly Poem, Every Day Poems, nthWord, Camrock Press Review, Front Porch Rview, Ray’s Road Review, Enoia Review, Mad Swirl, NEW YORK Dreaming, Arthur Magazine, The Commonline Journal, The Blue Hour, MILK SUGAR, The Social Poet, badrobotpoetry, A Year of Being Here, Gadfly, Carcinogenic Poetry, Poems and Poetry, poeticdiversity, Angelfire, border hopping, Pyrokinection, The Poetry Locksmith-Eye on LIfe Magazine, DEAD SNAKES, THIS Literary Magazine, All our Poems, The Flaneur art blog (UK), Mifits’ Miscellany, RFishc, VIGOGRAY-PRESS, Epiphany Magazine, Dagna Publishing (UK), Hagggard & Hallo Publications, Her Royal Majesty(Paris), Ottawa Arts Review, L’Allures des Mots, The Blue Hour Anthology Volume One and Two, L.E.S Review, New York Public Library POETRY MONTH, READER’S DEN, Threads/Dagda Publishing (UK), St. Somewhere Journal (Caribbean Basin region), The Higgs Weldon, The Newtowner, Green Spot Blue, Viral Cat Press, Exercise Bowler, Gloom Cupboard, San Fransisco Pease and Hope, Opium Poetry-The Literary Underground, The Other Herald, Poetry Super Highway, Boston Poetry Magazine, BLUEPEPPER (Australia), BoySlut, A Year of Being Here, vox poetica, The AEolian Review, Autum Poetry eBook Anthology, Fiction Noir Anthology, Ottawa Arts Review, Flutter Poetry Journal, Four and Twenty Magazine, Poetic Desperation, Handful Of Dust, Zygote in my Coffee, Unlikely 2.0, THOUGHTSMITH, Opium Poetry, 2.0, Cafe Del Soul, Indigo Rising Magazine, Penspark, Penumbra (Madrid), The Bitchen' Kitsch, The Brooklyn Voice, Del La Mancha Magazine, Poets & Artists (O&S).

The following work is Copyright © 2009, and owned by Ivan Jenson and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.

The Things I do for you I have lifted your couches and swept your floors and painted your walls and listened to your stories repeat like a scratched up 45 I have known you for years and put up with your ups and your let downs and red wine nights and your sleep all days I have watched you change from frenetic and young to someone always looking over their shoulder at the blur of years like fast moving faces in passing trains you have had me running in circles trying to catch some flying bouquet of pleasure so that I might offer it to you and only now do I question our vaudeville song and dance but the only answer I can find is written between the laugh lines etched under your eyes and the answer is yes I can give you a ride to the store tonight you crazy, wonderful car wreck of a woman

 

© 2013 Ivan Jenson