Lynne Viti

Poet

Westwood, MA
Massachusetts US
Email: 
lviti@wellesley.edu
Website: 
lynneviti.wordpress.com
Twitter/X: 
@LynneViti
RSS feed: 
www.lynneviti.wordpress.com/feed…

Author's Bio

          Lynne Viti served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Westwood, Massachusetts from 2023-2025. A graduate of Barnard College and Boston College Law School, she is a  lecturer emerita in the Writing Program at Wellesley College.  She is an experienced workshop leader for grades 9-12, undergraduates, and teenagers and adults in community settings. 
           Beginning with the late Sam Cornish’s poetry workshops at the Boston Public Library fifteen years ago, she turned her energies to writing poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared  in over  200 print and online venues.
         She won the Miram Chaikin/Westbeth Artists' Poetry Award in 2023,   a third prize in the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, and the 2024 Hale Education poetry contest. She was awarded honorable mentions in the 2014 Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest, 2015 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest,  WOMR/Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest in  2018,2019, 2020 and 2022,  longlisted for the Fish Poetry Contest in 2020, and nominated for Mass. Book of the Year in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022 and for a Pushcart Prize. She blogs at lynneviti.wordpress.com.

Writers Retreats: 
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop Program

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Road Trips: Poets Respond to Travel on Life's Highways and Byways (Highland Park Poetry Press, 2024)
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The Power of the Feminine I (Thresh Press, 2023)
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Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet Vol.III (Notable Works Publication, 2023)
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A Lovely Place, A Fighting Place, A Charmer (Belt Publishing, 2022)
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The Stars and Moon in the Evening Sky (Southern Arizona Press, 2022)
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Welcome to the neighborhood (Ohio University Press / Swallow Press, 2019)
Books:
The Walk to Cefalù (Cornerstone Press, 2022)
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Dancing at Lake Montebello:Poems (Apprentice House, 2020)
Chapbooks:
The Glamorganshire Bible (Finishing Line Press, 2018)
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Baltimore Girls (Finishing Line Press, 2017)
Journals:
63 Channels
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A New Ulster
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America Magazine
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Bear Review
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BlazeVOX
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Boston Literary Review
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Califragile
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Cape Cod Poetry Review
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Chautauqua
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Foliate Oak
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Gargoyle Magazine
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Grey Sparrow Journal
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Hedgerow: A Journal of Small Poems
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Little Patuxent Review
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Loch Raven Review
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Lunch Ticket
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Meat for Tea: The Valley Review
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Mountain Gazette
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Muddy River Poetry Review
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Nixes Mate Review
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Oddball Magazine
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Origami Poems Project
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Paterson Literary Review
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Poetry Pacific
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Scapegoat Review
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Schuylkill Valley Journal
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Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine
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Snapdragon
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South Florida Poetry Journal
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Stillwater Review
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Swannanoa Review
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Temenos Journal
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The Basil O'Flaherty
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The Galway Review
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The Thing Itself Literary Journal
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Three Drops from a Cauldron
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Topology
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Westerly
,
work to a calm
Prizes won: 

2025 Finalist, Beal Poetry Prize; 2025 Honorable Mention, Highland Park Poetry Challenge; 2025 Longlisted, Fish Publishing Poetry Contest; 2025; Finalist, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest; 2025 Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest, second place, Regional category; 2024 Hale Education Poem of the Year; 2023 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, 3rd Place; 2023 Miriam Chaikin Award, Westbeth Artists Housing; Finalist in Poetry, 2022 Tucson Festival of Books; longlisted, 2020, Fish Publishing Poetry Contest; Honorable Mention, Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest,2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022; Finalist, Grey Borders Poetry Chapbook Contest; Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest 2015; Honorable Mention, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest 2015.

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Favorite authors: 
Seamus Heaney Gail Mazur Frank Bidart Mark Doty David Ferry Paul Muldoon Rita Dove Richard Blanco Ada Limon Frank O'Hara Adrienne Rich Diane Wakoski Alice Notley Gail Mazur Andrea Cohen Patricia Spears Jones

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American, Feminist, German American, Irish American, Welsh American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Any, At Risk Youth, Children, Illness/Wellness
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Baltimore , MD
Maryland
Raised in: 
Baltimore, MD
Maryland
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Last update: Nov 14, 2025