Jeanette Hardage could sometimes be shy about sharing intimate details about herself. For instance, a couple of her most poignant poems disguise her involvement by describing an experience in the third person, using made-up people. Around 1998, she had an experience that she wanted to …
Read MoreWriter’s Lament
As many writers probably do, Jeanette Hardage found the process of promoting her own writing to be unpleasant work. She admitted in a 2004 letter to a friend that she didn’t like marketing, and as a result, “my failing is that I don’t mail my …
Read MoreWhat She Really Wanted to Say
During the early 2000s, Jeanette Hardage was a prolific book and film reviewer. She was not equally enamored of everything that she read or viewed, of course, and when completing a review she was honest about her disappointment with blurry photos, unnecessary exaggeration, or pointless …
Read MoreSailing Through Life
Jeanette Hardage found inspiration in the writing of Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001-2003, to the point that she incorporated some of her favorite phrases from his book Sailing Alone Around the Room into a poem of her own. She called this a “silly” …
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