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Poetry Reading: Irene Willis


April 30, 2019

Award-winning poet, Irene Willis will be performing some selections from her latest book release: Rehearsal.

 

Ms. Willis is the author of five collections of poetry:  They Tell Me You Danced (University Press of Florida, 1995); At the Fortune Café, winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize and National Book Award nominee (Snake Nation Press, 2005); Those Flames (Bay Oak, 2009);  Reminder (Word Poetry, 2014), and Rehearsal (IP Books, 2018).  She is also the editor of an anthology, Climate of Opinion: Sigmund  Freud in Poetry ( IP Books, 2017). Three times nominated for Pushcart Prizes, her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She has also co-authored several textbooks and children's books. A longtime educator who has "retired" three times, she has taught at a number of secondary schools and colleges, most recently at Westfield State University and American International College in Massachusetts.  Awards for her poetry include a Distinguished Artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; a residency fellowship from the Millay Colony for the Arts, and grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Berkshire/Taconic Foundation. She is Poetry Editor of the online publication, International Psychoanalysis, where she has a monthly column, "Poetry Monday."

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