"One of my friends once casually said, “If you’ve never had kids, you’ve never grown up.” The blunt dismissiveness of that remark still infuriates me: doesn’t he know how it feels to wake up in the middle of the night convinced that one will die alone? Confronting that we are alone in the universe is an existential task on which childless women have a big head start." == from "Mother's Day: A Non-mother Weighs In" in the May, 2008 East Village Magazine and under "Essays."
Welcome to the website of Jan Worth – novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, teacher and Flint River canoeist.
Night Blind is the saga of a ragtag bunch of Peace Corps volunteers grappling with a murder in the remote and eccentric Kingdom of Tonga. For more, click here...
Click on Events for upcoming appearances, with photos!
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See profiles of Flint poet Grayce Scholt and Legendary Flint Pipe Entrepreneur Paul Spaniola in East Village Magazine or click here to jump to the piece in the "Essay" section.
Six Minutes in New York:
Jan Speaks Out on Peace Corps Tonga, Night Blind, and Indie Publishing.
New Links We Like: www.keithtaylorannarbor.com Ann Arbor poet and writer Keith Taylor’s new website is elegant and interesting – congrats, Keith.
Night Blind: Top Ten Finalist in Literary Fiction, ForeWord Magazine "Book of the Year" Awards for 2006 books from independent and small presses.
Night Blindis available now at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Flint (Genesee Valley Mall) and Torrance (Del Amo Mall).
