Jewel Kilcher

Jewel Kilcher Folk singer and writer Jewel Kilcher was born on May 23, 1974, in Homer, Alaska, to Nedra and Atz Kilcher. Her parents were folk singers who incorporated Jewel into their act at age 6. Jewel and her family lived in a very small-populated town and had no running water, toilets or television. For her last two years of high school, Jewel traveled to Michigan and the Interlochen Arts Academy where she took arts and music classes. …

…conquering is complete the blood leaves its limbs and it becomes disenchanted (to the point of disgust) with its subject who sits then like a hollow trunk emptied of its precious cargo and left to fade a seed relieved of its transparent husk to dissolve, finally on a rough and impatient tongue Bibliography I wrote this for my english class, during our section on poetry, my grade was a 93%. My teahcer said "very nice job."