Kim Bridgford

Poet

West Chester, PA

Pennsylvania US

Email:

kbridgford@yahoo.com

Website:

www.wcupoetrycenter.com

Author's Bio

I think of myself as a woman-poet entrepreneur. In addition to doing my own writing and directing the West Chester University Poetry Center and Poetry Conference, I edit an online journal of formalist poetry by women, Mezzo Cammin, www.mezzocammin.com, and I founded The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project, which will eventually be the largest database of women poets in the world.

Publications & Prizes

Books:

Epiphanies (David Robert Books, 2013)

Bully Pulpit (White Violet Press, 2012)

Hitchcock's Coffin (David Robert Books, 2011)

Take-Out (David Robert Books, 2010)

In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records (Story Line Press, 2007)

Instead of Maps (David Robert Books, 2006)

Undone (David Robert Books, 2003)

Journals:

32 Poems

Able Muse

Acumen Literary Journal

American Arts Quarterly

Barrow Street

Christian Science Monitor

Christianity and Literature

Commonweal

The Christian Century

The Formalist

The Rotary Dial

Unsplendid

Valparaiso Poetry Review

Prizes won:

NEA Fellowship, Connecticut Commission on the Arts grant, Ucross fellowship; second prize for a poem from the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada; Alpha Sigma Nu Teacher of the Year, Connecticut Professor of the Year.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat, See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid, The Best of It by Kay Ryan, Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon, The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Swedish American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Moline

Raised in:

Coal Valley, IL

Illinois

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Last update: Oct 07, 2013