Welcome Earthlings To My Universe
I consider myself an artivist, meaning i choose to write on topics that inform about injustices, topics that are a call to action around inequities, or topics that share personal experiences around identity. i have a strong understanding of medieval texts as well and choose to create urban translations for more inclusive and diverse teaching of canon texts. Furthermore, spoken word poetry lends itself to a rhythm and cadence so it naturally fits into the genre of musicals.
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PLAYWRIGHT
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MUSICALS IN VERSE
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lyricist
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screenwriter
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PUBLIC SPEAKER
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SPEECHES/KEYNOTES
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THEMATIC CUSTOM POETRY
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EDUCATOR
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panelist
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Curriculum
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BRAINSTORM SESSIONS/ IDEA GENERATION
Jennine “DOC” Krueger is a mother, writer, artivist, public speaker, and educator in Austin, Texas. She has competed in world, national, and local slam poetry competitions. She holds four national titles and has now coached several national teams for Austin Poetry Slam and Austin Neo Soul. Her poetry and dramatic works have been published in Santa Fe Literary Review, and the Sierra Nevada Review as a winner in the Brian Turner Literary Arts Prize, and her dramatic work has won best of fest five times in Austin’s Frontera Festival. She has earned an M.Ed. from Concordia University and an MFA in poetry from Spalding University, and she is also an Emerging Teaching Artist Fellow through Mindpop and the City of Austin. She has over 20 years of teaching experience at both secondary and undergraduate levels as well as 20 plus years of public and motivational speaking around identity, positive thinking and mental health.
Her scholarship has led her to discuss culture and comics at the National Pop Culture Conference, Wizard World’s Comic Con, virtually in the 2020 SXSWEdu conference on Teaching for Social Justice with Comics, and The Cosplay Poetry Slam at SanJapan 2021 in San Antonio Texas. Her writing has a vast range across politics, race and identity as well as across genres with children’s literature and a hip-hop musical retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (currently in development through Theatre Now New York’s National Musical Lab). Her research interests are in spoken word performance, medieval literature translations into hip-hop, social and restorative justice, and marginalized heroes in comic books and graphic novels. She is represented by Tobias Literary Management and is currently shopping an anime screenplay pilot Ars Poetica that will focus on poetry and mental health. She is also developing a new musical about Doris Miller, a Black WWII hero; another musical retelling the Salem Witch trials with an emphasis on the narrative from Tituba; and researching for a fourth musical delving into a mashup of Dante's Inferno with the famous Delta Blues man Robert Johnson and the urban legend of him meeting the Devil at the Crossroads.
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White Space
Make me a poem
On black paper; a haiku
Plenty of black space
Gentrification
He looks like potential. Like good credit with sharp elbows and a bright smile. He has a type “A” personality but talks in whispers. Says close walls give security. Says claustrophobia is a warm blanket. If it gets cold here's a brand-new coat of paint. He turns down the AC. He takes over the block and calls ICE. Calls it a cube. Says to solve a Rubik's, you need to get all the colors sorted out and on one side. He tells Black to be Green. Efficiencies become luxury studios. He makes cheap look expensive. He looks like a customer with a full basket in the 15 items or less line. He looks like food stamps buying lobster. Looks like a May I help you sticker worn on a backside and covered with a jacket. Looks like a restaurant with great customer service but all the tables need wiping. Looks like can't sit here but everyone is welcome! Looks like a crust of bread dropped at a picnic before the ants come. Looks like bleach spilled in a dark wash. He looks like milk pouring on asphalt. He man-spreads. He says, Clean this up quick! Wait, no, the stain builds character so leave it! He makes old into vintage. Says he can charge more for antiques. He raises the bar and yells LIMBO!
