Leland Jamieson
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| Gender | Male |
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| Introduction | Leland Jamieson lives and writes in Monroe Township, NJ, USA. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UNC at Chapel Hill, he brings to his poetry a wide variety of landscapes acquired living in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Although he has been a scribbler of verse since he was a teen, starting in 2002 he began to devote himself to formal poetry. His goal is to use rhyme and meter to tell stories and present vignettes relevant to today’s readers. Among his major influences are the dramatic works of William Shakespeare and the poetry of Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens, as well as both the prose and poetry of William Stafford and Timothy Steele. "Teaching myself to write in meter and rhyme, and committing myself to that," he says, "has been the most liberating experience I have ever enjoyed in my writing life. What rhyme and meter most liberate is feeling and creativity." Published work: How to Rhyme Your Way to 'Metaphor Poems', and three collections of poetry: 21st Century Bread, In Vitro, and Sooner. More at www.jamiesonspoetry.com |
| Interests | Poetry, reading, writing, good conversation, laughter, walking |
| Favorite Music | Mozart, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and their contemporaries, plus .the masters of late baroque |
| Favorite Books | Other than poetry, Marrs' Rule by Secrecy, Sitchin's 12th Planet |