GAS Featured Artist and Poet: Ivan Jenson

 

Ivan Jenson is a fine artist, novelist and popular contemporary poet who lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

His artwork was featured in Art in America, Art News, and Interview Magazine and has sold at auction at Christie’s. Amongst Ivan’s commissions are the final portrait of the late Malcolm Forbes and a painting titled Absolut Jenson for Absolut Vodka’s national ad campaign. His Absolut paintings are in the collection of the Spritmuseum, the museum of spirits in Stockholm, Sweden. Jenson’s painting of the Marlboro Man was collected by the Philip Morris corporation. 

His novels, Dead Artist and Seeing Soriah, illustrate the creative, often dramatic lives of artists. Jenson’s poetry is widely published (with over 1000 poems published in the US, UK and Europe) in a variety of literary media. He has published a poetry book, Media Child and Other Poems, and two novels, Marketing Mia and Erotic Rights and his newest thriller, The Tigress. 

Mundane Miracles, his critically acclaimed poetry collection, hit number 1 on Amazon in American Poetry.

East of Ivan, his memoir, has continuously been on the Amazon Bestsellers List since its release. 

Ivan Jenson’s website: www.ivanjenson.com
Twitter: @IvanJenson

Sunken Treasure

Are you planning
to do anything
with the time you
have left?
If not,
could you waste
an hour listening
to me complain
about the service
in this place?
Because I feel like
I've fallen into a tourist trap
or into an alcoholic Santa's lap
or that I could have gotten
a better room with a view
to grass that isn't a greener hue.
And could you set me up
with somebody who believes
the Loch Ness Monster
and Bigfoot are a match
and who might see me
as an old trunk in an attic
that contains fool's gold
when at last unlatched?
Anyway, as you
might have guessed
my weekend is wide open
and I am utterly unattached.