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Joyce Wilson, editor and creator of The Poetry Porch, teaches English at Suffolk University. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, including Cyphers, Poetry Ireland, Ibbetson Street Magazine, and online at Mezzo Cammin. One of her poems won the Daniel Varoujan Award from the New England Poetry Club of Cambridge, Mass. and another won the Katherine Lee Bates award from the Falmouth Historical Society. Her first manuscript of poems is circulating. She writes reviews regularly for Harvard Review.
Augmenting its role as an on-line magazine, The Poetry Porch judges an annual competition of original student poetry at Weymouth High School (sponsored in part by a grant from the local cultural council, supported by the Massachusetts Arts Council). The Poetry Porch has also given workshops in Massachusetts schools where English departments have used the Sonnet Scroll to structure a unit on writing sonnets. Since its inception, The Poetry Porch has organized many readings at public libraries on the South Shore for published and unpublished poets.
Taking classes as a nontraditional student at Harvard University for most of the 1980s, Wilson received a B.A. through Harvard Extension in 1984 and a M.Ed. from the Graduate School of Education in 1987. During that time she studied writing poetry with Seamus Heaney, and writing about poetry with Helen Vendler; she also took fiction workshops with Monroe Engel and Anne Bernays, and non-fiction with Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe, as well as many seminars in English and American literature. After these years at Harvard, she taught English at Boston University and Suffolk University. During the early 1990s, she served as director of South Shore Poets, organizing forums in public libraries for participants to read their original poetry. She received funding from the Mass Cultural to direct these readings, and in 1993, to publish an Anthology of South Shore Poets representing the work of 35 contributors. From 1992 to 1996, she worked as assistant to the curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room of Harvard College Library, where she was also managing editor of Harvard Review.
Wilson has lived with her husband John Goldie at the same address in Scituate, Massachusetts, for over 30 years. Their daughter is a journalist based in Beirut, Lebanon, where she writes about culture and the arts.
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Commencement Lines to Allegra Taxi in Millers’ Glenn Three travel poems: On the Advantages of Driving Idlers Loosestrife Sonnets: Lunch with Perrier and Tea On Opening a Book of Poems by Michael Drayton and Finding Pages Uncut Summer Wild Sonnet sequence |
More poems: Snow The Rodin Drawing Spiders Non-fiction: Christmas in Cairo. The Weaver and Other Poems, a chapbook, is available on-line by request. Copies of the Anthology of South Shore Poets are no longer available but may be viewed at the Poetry Room, Harvard College Library, and most South Shore Massachusetts libraries. |
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