Jennifer A. McGowan lives in Oxfordshire. She attended Princeton University,
graduating cum laude, and obtained
her MA and PhD from the University
of Wales. Despite being certified disabled at age 16,
she became a semiprofessional mime and performed in five countries. More recently she has taught both under- and
postgraduates at several universities, in subjects as varied as English,
history, and heritage studies. Her poems
have appeared in many literary journals on both sides of the Atlantic,
including Acumen, Envoi, Agenda, The Connecticut Review,
and Gargoyle; a chapbook, Life in Captivity, is available from
Finishing Line Press. She has been
anthologised alongside such poets as Ursula K. LeGuin and Lyn Lifshin; songs
she has written have been recorded on several independent labels. Her website, with more poetry and examples of
her mediaeval calligraphy, can be found at http://www.jenniferamcgowan.com
Poem for the exhibition
DEEDLEDAMMER
O, woe the freddled deedledammer,
for he sardels with a stammer!
He cannot choi the kun-wa-dim;
no fili-fimberbaugh for him!
The deedledammer’s tursid plack
Goes neither forward-wise nor back
So micturation cannot be
A frim follute for such as he.
Accursed be the frycted sam
that will not let him deedledam.
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