Genine Lentine is a poet, teacher, gardener, and interdisciplinary artist. She is the author of Archaeopteryx (Artifact, 2016), Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model (Kelly’s Cove Press, 2012 , chapbook: g.e. collective, 2010), Mr. Worthington’s Beautiful Experiments on Splashes (New Michigan Press, 2010) and, and co-author with Stanley Kunitz of The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (W.W. Norton, 2005). She received an MS in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University and an MFA in Poetry from New York University.
She has received grants and fellowships from Southern Exposure Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and Hedgebrook, and the Boomerang Foundation. As Artist-in-Residence at San Francisco Zen Center (2009-10), she curated The Expert’s Mind: Ten Interdisciplinary Talks, and Nothing is Hidden, a series of readings, screenings and artist talks. She recently worked as a writer for Hack, a laptop that encourages kids to learn to code. She taught Writing and Contemporary Practice at The San Francisco Art Institute for seven years, where she still tends a meadow.
She works 1:1 with writers and artists and teaches ongoing workshops.
Hi Genine,
This is Kelly, I was in your Jan Term course in 2014 at Saint Mary’s College of California. I don’t know if you remember me but you inspired me. I hope all is well and that we can catch up sometime!
hi Kelly!
Of course I remember you and your brilliant, generous poems ;)
Hi Genine,
I am pretty sure you remember me and I know I could never forget you. You have a brilliant talent that morphs mindfully for individual pace in reaching your students. I was your student for many years in kind of a different way, I learned from you by proximity. I am always astounded in your weaving of the word, and artful original creations. You see into people’s souls and then bring them validation by your intuition. You work at your craft and there are times when your craft is there for you to step into as a fruition of a natural attraction that exists in the alchemy of brilliance. Thought I would convey a note of encouragement to someone that enriches lives and has the talent to identify and enjoy inner effervescence in the smallest details.