Jeanne Bryner is a registered nurse. Her poems and stories have appeared in several magazines and journals, including Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Nursing, International Journal of Arts Medicine, The Sun, and in the anthology Intensive Care. She is also the author of Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered (2004).

Breathless (Wick Chapbook Series 1)

Literature & Fiction

Bryner, Jeanne

Poetry

The Kent State University Press

A strong book of short fiction by Jeanne Bryner, treating the working classs lives of many characters ranging from Appalachia to the industrial Midwest. In our WORKING LIVES SERIES.

Eclipse: Stories (Working Lives Series)

Contemporary

Bottom Dog Press

Welcome to real-deal, no-happy-meals-sold-here poetry. With her nurse�s hand and poet�s eye, Jeanne Bryner cuts into hidden human geographies�bodies "unhinged" like weathered barn doors, an open chest�s "ribbed canyon," and bone cells like "drunken thugs in a cave." She claims the body as working class without a union to negotiate. This collection is a stunning achievement, a howl against going gently into any good night, a life claim that hits, and hits, and hits back at death. Bryner's SMOKE, sweet and acrid, heals wounds we have yet to see. � Janet Zandy, author of Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work // Jeanne Bryner possesses a vigilant eye for wonder and a deep capacity for gratitude. Decades of clinical practice have honed the clarity of her vision.We stand with the student in the OR �breathing the same air as seasoned OB nurses� and we cheer when she recovers the missing needle. One need not be in the healthcare field, however, to recognize the heroes found within these pages: the firefighters who confront the smoke and flames, the resilient children who endure the unimaginable, the old men stalwart as trees. Bryner makes the commonplace shine, spins wonder from hard won gratitude. -- Geraldine Gorman, RN, PhD, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago

Smoke: Poems (Working Lives)

Bryner&#65533;s grasp of the harsh demands and simple satisfactions of rural life make for truly compelling poetry. Her honest and well-crafted testimonies remind us oft from the &#65533;gat it takes to get through life, the kind of quieter life in which many Americans still live and work, a life far removed from the more sensationally reality of sound bites and headlines. It is a privilege to have been let inside so many tender moments of everyday domesticity as are revealed in these finely measured poems. &#65533;Marc Harshman, poet laureate of West Virginia / / With a good reporter&#65533;s precision and a gifted poets empathy, Jeanne Bryner&#65533;s latest book focuses on &#65533;the epic of everyday life.&#65533; Here, she recreates the story of her husband, her children, the roof and doors of her house, un unpredictably garden, and her farmer neighbor&#65533;s crops and cattle. &#65533;Both Shoes Off is a true gift from a wise and accomplished poet, straight from the &#65533;good bones church&#65533; of her remarkable life. &#65533;Maggie Anderson, author of Windfall: New and Selected Poems

Both Shoes Off: Poems

Parenting & Relationships

The stories of four generations of Women are documented in poems - both the horrors and delights of a family.

No Matter How Many Windows

Wind Publications