Jen Frantz

she/her - poet - yale college dropout - iowa writers’ workshop - girlfrog

[Rachel Lapides @rachellapides]

when will they put a successful writer of literary fiction on dancing with the stars

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

notes app gold

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

this doesn’t scare you if you are pure of heart ❤️

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

Writing eight poems every day, we are so back

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

Other favorites:
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Fawn by Magda Szabo
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

I’ve read over 100 books this year so far—here are my top four (yes, that is the Emily Wilson translation, get wrecked)

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

I wish I could send a goodnight text to my dog

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

Running out of date ideas in NE Ohio. Save me Amish cheese factory!!!

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

I just want you to know that every night before I go to sleep I lovingly read all my friends’ and enemies’ Goodreads book reviews and smile or frown accordingly

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

Top 5 best feelings as a woman

1) cigarette
2) strawberry
3) high score in skee-ball
4) watching interviews with Dolly Parton
5) the moon

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

top 5 best feelings as a man

1) feeling the rhythm of life while dancing to house music
2) coming across a remarkable passage in an out-of-favor novel from a century ago
3) sharing szechuan food with your loved ones
4) putting your cat in “air jail”
5) drinking a coffee

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

one thing they don’t tell you is you can just go into Lowe’s and grab a bunch of paint swatches for free (I use them as bookmarks)

[Eli @rats7]

never been to lowes because i live in an apartment so i went just to feel what its like. these tiles were only 30 cents so i grabbed a few

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

Reading the nutritional facts on my lightbulb

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

this is how I, as a child, ended up on a family tour of the smith & Wesson gun factory

[emma @do_not_test_me]

they should facilitate more public tours of stuff. i want to see the new hospital. i want to see the innards of a cruise ship. let me into the docks. anywhere. let me see it

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

I’m reading all poetry books in April…it is making me feel like the grinch….please recommend good poetry collections

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

dude this picture made me think he died

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

Also now I can go outside and do things! And be in the car! I still freak out sometimes but it’s not a huge impairment on my life :)

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

So I really struggle with emetophobia (the fear of vomit)—my lowest point was a few years ago when I could not leave the house or be in a car—much less a plane—and I would carry a barf bag with me everywhere. Well today I threw that barf bag away. Buh-bye!!

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

Every time I see this I swear it says “mediocre transport”

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

here’s a poem I wrote about my mama

[Jen Frantz @ViveLaFrantz]

I’m sorry but so many poetry manuscripts these days have drab titles, some variation of Small Things Get Bigger or Death Is a Ghost like come on. I vow that when my manuscript gets published it will have an insane (bordering on stupid) title