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Jennifer Foreman

 

Jennifer Foreman is a Portland poet who works for Multnomah County in Aging and Aging Disability Services. She has taken classes at The Attic and is currently working on a full collection of poems that deal with the grief process.

 

Give us an idea of your writing habits and creative process.

My current creative process includes a lot of Friday writing cause I am off work on Fridays. I am also in a public writing groove. I like to sit at a bar or coffee shop and write. I find it less distracting than home and makes me stay out for a bit. It’s also nice to take breaks and strike up a conversation with someone sitting nearby or just people watch. Of late I have begun to take my laptop everywhere so I can write as much as possible and I don’t have to go home to get it. I don’t write by hand anymore, always on my computer.

You’re currently reading…

The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch. It’s a memoir. I am writing a memoir so people tell me about memoirs to read often. I am enjoying reading memoirs. I think reading the genre you are writing definitely informs your writing.

What’s on your favorite books list?

Favorite books of all time are Lucille Clifton’s Book of light: Possessing the Secret of Joy, Pride and Prejudice, and a recent fave is All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. And, of course, To Kill A Mockingbird.