Jennifer Clarvoe

Jennifer S. Clarvoe is an American poet and English professor at Kenyon College.

Essayist Jane Satterfield wrote that her lines were "[e]dgy as often as lyrical, formal as they are free (Clarvoe relishes, for instance, variations on the sestina).

"[5] Poet Laura Sims wrote in the Boston Review that Clarvoe's "vision of progression, tied up with childhood memories and marked by the 'fall' into adulthood, is highly personalized.

The early poems of Invisible Tender serve as close studies of childhood events; their glance is backward, but the past is reclaimed in new form, allowing forward movement.

[8] She was a 2016 James Merrill House Fellow in Stonington, CT.