While at MacDowell, J. L. Jacobs, whose second collection of poetry, "The Leaves in Her Shoes," was published in 1999 by Lost Roads, was working on a fourth collection of poems, "From the Territory" - recounting the removal, the folklore and the folk medicine of the Choctaws from "The Trail of Tears" to their re-settlement in Indian Territory. Her third collection, "Streets as Elsewhere," is currently under review for publication.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Jaclyn Jacobs
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Valiant, OK
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001
Studios
Schelling
Jaclyn Jacobs worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…