Barbara Lightner is a 71-yr old shameless agitator, retired. For a while she had a fine time doing graduate work and teaching in academia but was soon restless and impatient with the standard life. She became a civil rights activist, and a poet. Barbara began writing poetry in law school to escape the tension and boredom of death by law. She is published in Table Rock Review, New Verse News, Come be a Memoirist, and the feminist anthology Letters to the World; and will be published in the Zocala Press Chapbook series on Aging. She has performed her "Slam Poetry Exhort to the Old Woman of Me" in Milwaukee, WI, where she currently lives; and has read in various local venues in Madison, WI, Eureka Springs, AR, and Milwaukee. Several of her poems will be set to music by composer Larry Alan Smith.

Come be a Memoirist (Woodland Pattern Book Center, 2009), Letters to the World (Red Hen Press, 2008)

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