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"The best exercise:
Keep your attitude flexible!" - Janice Rose
Magnolia Moon, Texas Sage
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"Unconditional love is
Always
Awesome
Acceptance."
-Janice Rose
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Janice Rose lives in The
Colony, TX where she writes poems, essays, monologues and teaches writing
courses to adults and senior citizens. Three of her monologues were performed
by actresses at the Bathhouse Cultural Center and she herself has
performed two other monologues at The MAC Theatre in Dallas. At one
time, she was a newspaper journalist and columnist, when it was an
honorable profession. Her writing has appeared in publications
such as New Texas '95; Write From the Heart; Concho River Review; VENUE; Out of the Blue . . .Delight
Comes into Our Lives; "The Austin Writer;" Global Peace . .
.From Vision To Reality; Southwest Women's Poetry Exchange;
The Texas Observer, various
newspapers, etc.
"To read is the effervescence
of champagne. To write is to plant, pick, sort, and harvest the
grapes. I spend interim hours plumping my beret and cursing the
computer."
- Janice Rose
"Eudora's
Glory!"
Photo by Janice Rose in Eudora
Welty's garden in Jackson, MS
Poetry Awards
Magnolia Moon, Texas Sage
received a top-three finalist award at North Texas Book Festival, 2009.
I’ve won two awards for poetry recently. One from the Plano Library Association for “Authority” which is
dedicated to Gwendolyn Brooks. That was in April, ‘08 for National Poetry
Month. They published it in their awards booklet, Celebrate Poetry.
The next poem won an Honorable Mention
from online Artella Words and Art in their “Poetic Idol” contest.
For all artists and writers,
www.artellawordsandart.com
is an outstanding place to get published; send them your work!
Here is the poem: (Also published in
MAGNOLIA MOON, TEXAS SAGE.)
Tenth Summer
Oak Street in the South,
my tenth summer.
Hurricane Hazel has yet to come.
I am asleep in a blue-walled
cocoon
of Hardy and Drew.
The slammed fist on the table
startles me.
Light pierces my blackened room
like a crusading blade slid
under the door.
He is home.
From their room I hear her
muffled cry
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the closed mouth and teeth
whimper
of a wounded deer
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my wounded mother.
Cornered.
Primal.
A slap, a thud against the outer
wall.
The fan oscillates in my room.
Back and forth.
Back and forth.
I sit up in bed, pulling my
pillow and knees
tight to my chest.
Tears stream into my silent open
mouth
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survival comes in the eye of the storm:
If I can hurt myself more than
anyone,
then no one else can ever hurt me.
-Janice Rose
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Professional
Theatrical Experience:
Dallas Children's Theatre
DCT On
Tour/ D.H.S. & TX State Thespian's Festival
Pegasus Theatre, Dallas, TX
Copperbreaks
State Park/Crowell, TX
Community
Theatrical Experience:
Goldsboro, NC, Neighborhood Playhouse
The Colony Sailfair, TX
Frisco Community Theatre, TX
Denton Community Theatre, TX
Irving Community Theatre, TX
TNT Festival, Ft. Worth, TX
Collin Co. Community College, Plano, TX
Women's Evening Alliance/First Unitarian
Church, Dallas, TX
Professional Modeling
IT'S ME/ Fort Worth Women's Magazine
Professional Film & T.V. Work
Walker, Texas Ranger/CBS-TV, Dallas, TX.
Starkweather: Murder in the Haeartland,
McKinney, TX
Leap of Faith, Paramount Studios, Dallas, TX
Dangerous Curves, CBS-TV, Dallas, TX
Sexual Assault/D.C.F.O.F. UNT Public Services
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