Tag: poems
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Out of Thebes
A play became the poems, which became a brand new play! Out of Thebes is in full swing in Santa Fe, NM: Santa Fe New Mexican article
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The Writer’s Almanac, June 9, 2014
Listen to Garrison Keillor read “At Quarter to Five” on The Writer’s Almanac.
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Order your copy!
Pre-orders from now until January 24th will determine the final press run of Small Rooms with Gods. Reserve your copy today! Click Here to Journey to the Publisher’s Site
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“This is a wonderful collection.”
“In Small Rooms with Gods, Angela Janda makes us stand on the bloody ground of Thebes, and demonstrates once again that come what may ‘there will always be some who will have to die.’ They are all here, Antigone, Creon, Ismene, Eurydice, Haemon, Teiresias, and even Oedipus, and we see them all from a new…
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“These poems grab both mind and heart.”
“In poems simultaneously contemporary and timeless, this collection imaginatively probes the existential crises underlying the Antigone story. The poems less directly about Antigone somehow become mythic by association. The analysis is thoughtful; the language is taut, meditative, and resonant; the imagery and music are subtly insistent. These poems grab both mind and heart.” -Mark Z.…
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“…beautifully written and deftly arranged.”
“Angela Janda’s poems are beautifully written and deftly arranged. Any reader familiar with the tales of Antigone and Oedipus will recognize these ancient figures in this collection. Their tragic resoluteness is there and keenly exposed, yet Ms. Janda’s creative use of language and imagery holds the reader in the contemporary world of swimming pools, candy…
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Small Rooms with Gods
Order via Finishing Line Press Order via Amazon In April 2011, I performed in a Theaterwork production staged in the abandoned Tino Griego Municipal Pool off Llano St in Santa Fe. The play was Antigone by Jean Anouilh. Before and during and after my time in the pool, I wrote a book of poems, partly…
Angela Janda 