Jenkins was a guest on A Prairie Home Companion numerous times[4] and was also featured on The Writer's Almanac [5] and on the Northern Lights TV Series.

[14] During 2008-2013 Rylance transformed a sequence of Jenkins’ prose poems into the play Nice Fish[13] which premiered on April 6, 2013, at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.

The composers selected were Carol E. Barnett, Craig Carnahan, Jake Endres, Jocelyn Hagen and Tim Takach, Linda Tutas Haugen, Ryan Johnston, Linda Kachelmeier, Libby Larsen, J. David Moore, Daniel Nass, Jonathan Posthuma, David Evan Thomas, and Jeremy Walker.

Prose Poems Louis Jenkins reads at the 1996 Minnesota Men’s Conference in Duluth, MN, introduced by Robert Bly.

The Mad Moonlight Art Songs Carol Barnett’s “Mad Moonlight” (settings for voice and piano of “Young Witches,” “Old Witches,” and “Bat” by Louis Jenkins; recorded at a Schubert Club concert at the Landmark Center in Saint Paul, MN on April 27, 2022, performed by mezzo-soprano Georgia Jacobson and pianist Carson Rose Schneider.

); Libby Larsen’s “North Shore Songs” (settings for voice and piano of “Sauna,” “January Night 35 Below Zero,” “Lake Superior,” and “Summer Rain” by Louis Jenkins); David Evan Thomas’s “In the Mad Moonlight” (settings for voice and piano of “Oklahoma,” “Drip" aka "Water," “Chekov and Heisenberg,” and “Hey Diddle Diddle” by Louis Jenkins); Daniel Nass’s “Animal Songs” (settings for voice and piano of “Knock Knock,” “Great Grey Owl,” “Website,” “The Wolf,” and “Squirrel” by Louis Jenkins); recorded at the College of St. Scholastica’s Mitchell Auditorium in Duluth, MN , on September 15, 2023, performed by mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski and pianist Jessica Schroeder.