Shown working with an image at the ARRUF writer's group in October, Jane Chance has been exploring several new forms of writing. Jane's second full-length poetry collection, “The Middle Ages,” has just been released by Finishing Line Press this week.

Jane was featured at a poetry reading Nov. 8 at Brazos Bookstore, and will offer a joint poetry reading with Stacy Nigliazzo, who has just published her second full-length collection, “Sky the Oar,” at Press 53, at Kaboom Books, 3116 Houston Ave., Wed. Dec. 12, 7-9 pm. Stacy is an emergency room nurse who interweaves her experiences there in lyric poems. They both took a nine-week poetry workshop at Inprint with UH creative writing Ph.D. poet Justine Post, author of "Beast. “ Jane notes, "Just to say, by means of encouragement, you don’t have to cease either your education or your intellectual journey."