Bio and Upcoming Readings
NEWS:
So honored that What Happens Next is Anyone's Guess was a finalist for the 2022 Vermont Book Award. Congratulations to Bianca Stone for winning the award for What is Otherwise Infinite. and to Rage Hezekiah, a finalist for her book, Yearn. I was in good company.
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Up-coming Readings:
May 21, 2023, 6 pm : BookEnds, Florence, MA
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In June of last year, What Happens Next is Anyone's Guess was
launched! Thank you so much to all at Beyond Baroque for making this a most memorable and celebratory evening, and special thanks to Liz Camfiord & Suzanne Lummis for their generous and brilliant editorial work.
Here's a link to the reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=daLSTP1flPI
Book #6, What Happens Next is Anyone’s Guess, winner of the 2021 Pacific Coast Poetry Series from Beyond Baroque and a finalist for the 2022 Vermont Book Award in poetry is available now on Amazon and through your local bookstore.
Book #5 : Some Slow Bees, was the 2014 winner of the Field Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press. Other awards include a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council, 2019, the 1998 Cleveland State Poetry Center award for my book, The Short History of Pets, and the Balcones award as well as a Pushcart Award and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, The Fundacion Valparaiso, and Millay Colony of the Arts. Publications include poems in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Green Mountains Review, Hotel Amerika, Sinister Wisdom, The Kenyon Review, Hayden’s Ferry, The Massachusetts Review, The Los Angeles Review, Poet Lore, River Styx and the anthology of contemporary Vermont poetry, Roads Taken.
On a more personal note, I live in Vermont but came here via a five year sojourn in California. I moved to California from Western Massachusetts where I raised two daughters while getting my BA, and later my MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I studied English/Women’s Studies/Journalism as an undergraduate, and studied with James Tate, and Madeline DeFrees in the MFA program. Tate was my thesis advisor. I am a native New Englander, lesbian/feminist and was brought up on a dairy farm in Northwestern Connecticut with four older brothers and a younger sister. Hence the presence of all sorts of siblings along with the cows and other creatures in my poems plus the variety of settings: desert, two oceans, boat, many fields, plenty of woods, river, streams, Adirondack lakes, and a line-up of houses.
At present, I teach poetry for the Antioch University Los Angeles Low-Residency MFA as well as for the Community College of Vermont—along with private manuscript consulting. I am available for readings and workshops. Specialties in workshops and lectures include writing in series (crown of sonnets--see Some Slow Bees); humor in poetry, the prose poem, found poetry, successful revision practices, and political poetry.
So honored that What Happens Next is Anyone's Guess was a finalist for the 2022 Vermont Book Award. Congratulations to Bianca Stone for winning the award for What is Otherwise Infinite. and to Rage Hezekiah, a finalist for her book, Yearn. I was in good company.
authors-who-are-the-2022-vermont-book-award-finalists.
Up-coming Readings:
May 21, 2023, 6 pm : BookEnds, Florence, MA
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In June of last year, What Happens Next is Anyone's Guess was
launched! Thank you so much to all at Beyond Baroque for making this a most memorable and celebratory evening, and special thanks to Liz Camfiord & Suzanne Lummis for their generous and brilliant editorial work.
Here's a link to the reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=daLSTP1flPI
Book #6, What Happens Next is Anyone’s Guess, winner of the 2021 Pacific Coast Poetry Series from Beyond Baroque and a finalist for the 2022 Vermont Book Award in poetry is available now on Amazon and through your local bookstore.
Book #5 : Some Slow Bees, was the 2014 winner of the Field Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press. Other awards include a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council, 2019, the 1998 Cleveland State Poetry Center award for my book, The Short History of Pets, and the Balcones award as well as a Pushcart Award and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, The Fundacion Valparaiso, and Millay Colony of the Arts. Publications include poems in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Green Mountains Review, Hotel Amerika, Sinister Wisdom, The Kenyon Review, Hayden’s Ferry, The Massachusetts Review, The Los Angeles Review, Poet Lore, River Styx and the anthology of contemporary Vermont poetry, Roads Taken.
On a more personal note, I live in Vermont but came here via a five year sojourn in California. I moved to California from Western Massachusetts where I raised two daughters while getting my BA, and later my MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I studied English/Women’s Studies/Journalism as an undergraduate, and studied with James Tate, and Madeline DeFrees in the MFA program. Tate was my thesis advisor. I am a native New Englander, lesbian/feminist and was brought up on a dairy farm in Northwestern Connecticut with four older brothers and a younger sister. Hence the presence of all sorts of siblings along with the cows and other creatures in my poems plus the variety of settings: desert, two oceans, boat, many fields, plenty of woods, river, streams, Adirondack lakes, and a line-up of houses.
At present, I teach poetry for the Antioch University Los Angeles Low-Residency MFA as well as for the Community College of Vermont—along with private manuscript consulting. I am available for readings and workshops. Specialties in workshops and lectures include writing in series (crown of sonnets--see Some Slow Bees); humor in poetry, the prose poem, found poetry, successful revision practices, and political poetry.
Photos: Carol Potter Venice Beach breakwater on left; Dennis, MA on right.
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