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Joyce Wilson [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Scituate, MA
Massachusetts US
Email: 
jpwwilson@comcast.net
Bio: 

BIO:  Joyce Wilson is editor of The Poetry Porch (www.poetryporch.com [2]), a literary magazine on the Internet since 1997. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, among them Free Inquiry, Salamander, The Lyric, and Poetry Ireland. Her chapbook The Need for a Bridge and a full-length collection Take and Receive were both published in 2019. A new collection of poems To the Springhouse appeared in 2022. Her poem “The One and the Other” won the Roberts Prize, The Lyric, in 2022. A sequence of poems “The Octagonal Schoolhouse” won the Samuel Washington Allen Honorable Mention Prize from the New England Poetry Club in 2023.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, EMILY DICKINSON, Eavan Boland
Born in: 
Wilmington, DE
Delaware
Raised in: 
Chadds Ford, PA
Pennsylvania
Website: 
https://www.poetryporch.com [3]
Prizes won: 

The Lyric, Roberts Prize for "The One and the Other," which appeared in The Lyric, Vol 101, No. 2, Spring 2021.

A sequence of poems “The Octagonal Schoolhouse” won the Samuel Washington Allen Honorable Mention Prize from the New England Poetry Club in 2023.

Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Schools
Seniors
Teachers

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/joyce_wilson [2] http://www.poetryporch.com [3] https://www.poetryporch.com