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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Westfield, MA

Massachusetts US

Email:

thepoetrynews@gmail.com

Bio:

Lee (Lori) Desrosiers’ poetry books are The Philosopher’s Daughter (Salmon Poetry, 2013), Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak (Salmon 2016) and Keeping Planes in the Air (Salmon 2020). Two chapbooks, typing with e.e. cummings and Inner Sky are from Glass Lyre Press. They edit Naugatuck River Review, a journal of narrative poetry, and Wordpeace.co, an online journal dedicated to social justice. Desrosiers teaches poetry at Lesley University MFA program and mentors privately. Their website is http://loridesrosierspoetry.com [2]

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

French

Favorite authors:

Jane Hirshfield, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, Anna Akhmatova, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, H.D.

Born in:

New York, NY

New York

Raised in:

Hastings-on Hudson, NY

New York

Website:

http://leedesrosierspoet.com [3]

Prizes won:

Honorable Mention Tom Howard/Margaret Reid 2023 poetry contest for poem "My Gender"
Finalist Joy Harjo Poetry Contest, 2018. Published in Cutthroat.
Liakoura Prize Pirene’s Fountain for poem “about the body”, 2017
Editor’s Nominee for 2015 Pushcart Prize
Nominated for Best of the Net by Pirene’s Fountain 2018

Nominated for Pushcart Prize by Glass Lyre Press, 2017

Finalist and published in New Millennium Writings Contest and Anthology 2012

First Prize Greater Brockton Society for Poetry & the Arts Contest for New England Poets, judged by X.J. Kennedy, April 2010

Education:

New England College

Writers Retreats:

Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair

Brattleboro Literary Festival

Millay Arts

Identifies as:

Jewish

LGBTQ

Prefers to work with:

Any