Barbara Lightner

Poet

Milwaukee, WI

Wisconsin US

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Author's Bio

Barbara Lightner is a 73-year old shameless agitator, retired. She grew up in rural Tennessee among sharecroppers and cotton magnates, hard scrabble farmers and one aristocrat. Writing poetry in law school became her escape from the intolerable burden of injustice by law. Her poetry has appeared in Verse Wisconsin, Poesia, the Table Rock Review, New Verse News, Occupy Poetry, and the anthologies Letters to the World and So You Want to be a Memoirist. Several of her poems will be set to music by composer Larry Alan Smith.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Come be a Memoirist (Woodland Pattern Book Center, 2009)

Letters to the World (Red Hen Press, 2008)

Journals:

New Verse News

Poesia

Verse Wisconsin

Prizes won:

The Wisconsin People & Ideas/ Wisconsin Book Festival 2012 Poetry Contest awarded Lightner both a third place and an honorable mention for two of her poems.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack by Mark Leyner, The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea, Columbarium by Susan Stewart, Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey, [saina] by Craig Santos Perez

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Adults, LGBTQ, Seniors, Teachers

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Akron

Raised in:

Raleigh, TN

Tennessee

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Last update: May 28, 2012