A REVISIONING OF THE PREAMBLE
By Jen Benka
8.5 x 5.5", Saddle Staple, Letter pressed cover and photocopied interior. 72 pages. Numbered Edition of 400 copies.

NYC poet Jen Benka wrote one poem for each of the fifty-two words in the nation's preamble to the Constitution in an effort to examine, expose, and rewrite the document one word at a time.

The Volume 25, #2, January/February, 2003 edition of the American Book Review features a fabulous review of Jen Benka's tour de force of poetry A Revisioning of the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States.

Reviewer Bob Grumman wrote that the Preamble "...was a collection of poems, good poems..." with the final poem of the book described as "...a masterful poem...". He finishes his review with the observation that the ...The Preamble... [book] is appealingly designed by Mark Wagner..." — Booklyn's director of Publication.

Jen Benka lives in New York City and is the managing director of Poets & Writers, Inc. She has published work in So To Speak, Off Our Backs, Ms. Magazine, The Progressive, and on Cafemo.com and La Petite Zine. She has received grants from the Poetry/Film Workshop, Xeric Foundation, and Intermedia Arts, and was awarded a 2001 poetry fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board. She co-organized a 24-hour reading of the complete poems of Emily Dickinson, which took place in June 2002 in New York City.

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