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Eye on UMSL: ‘Making Glass’
Eye on UMSL: ‘Making Glass’

University of Missouri–St. Louis alumna Jennifer Tappenden, MFA 2012, reads her poem "Making Glass" Feb. 12 in the Millennium Student Center at the third annual Excellence in Science Award Dinner. UMSL's College of Arts and Sciences holds the event to honor nearly 40...

Eye on UMSL: ‘Making Glass’

University of Missouri–St. Louis alumna Jennifer Tappenden, MFA 2012, reads her poem "Making Glass" Feb. 12 in the Millennium Student Center at the third annual Excellence in Science Award Dinner. UMSL's College of Arts and Sciences holds the event to honor nearly 40...

Eye on UMSL: ‘Making Glass’

University of Missouri–St. Louis alumna Jennifer Tappenden, MFA 2012, reads her poem "Making Glass" Feb. 12 in the Millennium Student Center at the third annual Excellence in Science Award Dinner. UMSL's College of Arts and Sciences holds the event to honor nearly 40...

Jennifer Tappenden introduces poetry to the public one poem at a time

Poetry is a hard sell. It has the rap of being difficult, of being inaccessible, of being something only other poets read. No one knows this better than Jennifer Tappenden, a student in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of...

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UMSL’s first poet laureate: Jennifer Tappenden

UMSL’s first poet laureate: Jennifer Tappenden

Jennifer Tappenden works by day making small databases for researchers to track study data. By night, the 42-year-old New York native hones her poetry skills while in pursuit of her master’s of fine arts in creative writing at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. She’s scheduled to graduate in December, but before then she’s spending her final year at UMSL as the university’s first poet laureate.