Rosemary Winslow
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Life
Rosemary Winslow lives in Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, with her husband John, a visual artist. She teaches at The Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America is a private university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by the U.S. Catholic bishops...
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Her work has appeared in 32 poems
32 poems
32 Poems Magazine is a literary magazine, founded in the American states of Maryland and Texas in 2003, that has published poems from writers around the world.-Beginning:...
, Poet Lore, The Southern Review, Crux. She published a collection of poems in 2007 entitled Greenbodies.
Her articles on Whitman have included the influence of Egyptology on his work, and Whitman's prosodic practice and influence on the Modernists.
She is a co-director of the The Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series.
Awards
She has received the Larry Neal Award for Poetry twice and Writer's Fellowships from the DC Commission for the Arts and The Vermont Studio Center.Works
- "FOXES", Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Winter 2004
- "LINDEN"; "GOING HOME"; "WHITE GROUND"; "BACKYARD"; "5 A.M.", Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Winter 2006
- "TO A FISH", THE INNISFREE POETRY JOURNAL
- "BLOOD/WINE"; "THE DAY"; "MOTHER, THEN & NOW"; "BESLAN, ET ALIA", THE INNISFREE POETRY JOURNAL
- "Haifa Street, Baghdad"; "Hydrangeas"; "Just In"; "The Visit"; "She Was Embroidered and Spring Kept Knocking", Locus Point, 31 October 2008
Reviews
In this, her first full-length collection, Rosemary Winslow weaves a web of both darkness and light, terror and joy, violence and loss, trauma and redemption, using filaments that are delicate, yet have enormous tensile strength. She writes about growing up in a painfully difficult family, giving us lessons on how to love the unlovable in poem after poem that express "the terrible complexity of love." (Baron Wormser) Lyric and meditative, these poems bear witness to an almost unbearable family history, in a small quiet voice that never preaches, but speaks of love and forgiveness of that which is truly unforgivable.