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Barbra Nightingale [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Hollywood, FL
Florida US
Email: 
bnighting@aol.com
Bio: 

200 poems are published in literary magazines and anthologies, including Barrow Street, Kansas Quarterly, Coydog Review, Red Hen, Sliver of Stone, The Florida Review, The Chatahoochie Review, Mississippi Review, The Liberal Media Made Me Do It, and Grabbed. Seven books of poetry include Lovers Never Die, Lunar Equations, Prelude to a Woman, Singing in the Key of L (NFPS 1999 Stevens Prize Winner), Geometry of Dreams, Two Voices, One Past, and Alphalexia. Barbra Nightingale is a Professor Emeritus from Broward College and is currently an Associate Editor with the South Florida Poetry Journal. 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds, Alicia Ostriker, James Tate, Pablo Neruda, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, too many others to mention!
Twitter/X: 
barbra nightingale@bnighting
Born in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
Raised in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
Website: 
https://www.barbranightingale.com [2]
Prizes won: 

1999 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Award, Singing in the Key of L. Finalist and semi-finalist in Aningha and other contests, including the Bluestem. Awarded an Atlantic Center for the Arts residency, and a Mosal Scholars award, as well as an Endowed Teaching Chair (1997), and again in 2010.

Identifies as: 
American

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