Jan Clausen was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she has lived in Brooklyn, NY for over fifty years. In addition to the Hanging Loose title Duration, her poetry collections include after touch (Out & Out Books), Waking at the Bottom of the Dark (Long Haul Press), From a Glass House (IKON), If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain), and Veiled Spill: A Sequence (GenPop). A founding editor of Conditions magazine, she has published two novels, a short story collection, and the memoir Apples and Oranges (Seven Stories Press). A past fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts, she is at work on a new memoir, My Great Acceleration. Current political activism centers on Park Slope Food Coop Members for Palestine, which campaigns for a Coop boycott of Israeli products.
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Jan Clausen
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From loose pages to issue 119 of our magazine, an anthology of over 100 HLP poets, over a decade of the Loose Award for translated works, the Founders prize for first book in its third year, and a bunch of great books in the works, we couldn’t have come this far without you.