Rosemary Winslow is an American

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and academic.

Life

Rosemary Winslow lives in

Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...

, with her husband John, a visual artist. She teaches at

The Catholic University of America The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private Catholic research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is one of two pontifical universities of the Catholic Church in the United States – the only one that is not primarily ...

. Her work has appeared in ''

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'', ''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 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"; "Whie 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 *

Anthology

Non-fiction

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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.

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Catholic University of America School of Arts and Sciences faculty Poets from Washington, D.C. American women poets American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-poet-stub