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Autumn House has nominated My Life as a Doll for the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. The winner receives $25,000 and national publicity.
"My Life as a Doll"
Published by Autumn House press
Artwork
by Sirarpi Heghinian Walzer
My life as a doll
was a life of waiting__hours
reeled like pinwheels, days
passed like wind blown
through black holes, weeks
hung heavy as headstones
The God took a knife
cut me into pure pain,
alive amid birds
wilding in the grapevine
while my dreams angled
into me like hooks, dragging me
away from Mother
into a world
he forget to bless.
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Elizabeth Kirschner, Author of My Life as a Doll, Launches Her Blog Tour!
& Book Giveaway Comments Contest!
Elizabeth Kirschner has published three books of poetry, Twenty Colors, Postal Routes and Slow Risen Among the Smoke Trees all by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. Her chapbook, The Red Dragon, was published by Permafrost, and My Life as a Doll was published by Autumn House Press.
In addition, she has a CD released by Albany Records wherein her own poetry, not a translation, has been set to Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe. Now titled The Dichterliebe in Four Seasons, it premiered in Vienna in the fall of 2005, followed by an American debut in Boston featuring soprano Jean Danton accompanied by pianist Thomas Stumpf. She has collaborated with many composers and taught at Boston College for over a decade. Kirschner also studied ballet with Boston Ballet. She now lives in a house on the water at Sea Cabins Retreat in Kittery Point, ME.
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I’m happy to announce that I am now offering a mentorship program called:
WISE EYE: CREATING POETRY THAT SOARS
My intention is to nurture poems and poem manuscripts at all stages and ages by taking a deep look into the heart and spirit of each piece, then contemplate upon the whole here in my home at Sea Cabin Retreat in Kittery Point and then respond fully and wisely to the work in either one-on-one sessions or via written correspondence sent through the mail.
Author of four books of poetry with the latest being My Life as a Doll, which was published by Autumn House Press and nominated for the Lenore Marshall Prize given by the Academy of American Poets, I have extensive teaching experience. I taught for seventeen years at Boston College and prior to that brought poetry into the classrooms of many New Hampshire schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade. I also taught as part of Very Special Arts.
For more information, please visit my website at: www.elizabethkirschner.com
or write to me at e.kirschner1@gmail.com. All are welcome to query. |
