Renée Ashley is the author of six volumes of poetry (Salt -- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Univ. of Wisconsin Press; The Various Reasons of Light; The Revisionist's Dream; Basic Heart -- X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press), Because I Am the Shore I Want to Be the Sea (Subito Press Poetry Prize, Univ. of Colorado--Boulder), and The View from the Body (Black Lawrence Press) as well as two chapbooks and a novel, Someplace Like This. She is on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's two low-residency graduate programs, the MFA in Creative Writing and the MA in Creative Writing and Literature for Educators. Her awards include a Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence, the Charles Angoff Award, an American Literary Review Poetry Prize, the Chelsea Poetry Award, and the Robert H. Winner Award and the Ruth Lake Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. A portion of her poem "First Book of the Moon" is etched in marble in Penn Station Terminal in Manhattan, part of a permanent installation by the artist Larry Kirkland. She has received fellowships in both poetry and prose from New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment of the Arts.

Other poems by Renée Ashley in Verse Daily:
June 19, 2016:   "Spindle, Lathe" "Thirst rose in her from a sitting position...."
October 24, 2013:   "contemplation within the framework of the dream" "Consider the custom of likeness or unlikeness fit as the..."
February 26, 2012:   "Armadillo" "Deep in the unlit palm scrub, a rustling..."
July 5, 2005:   "Simple" "and the whole white sky descends a grain..."
December 8, 2004:  "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary" "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary..."

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Other poems on the web by Renée Ashley:
Three poems
"There Is"
Four poems
"The Poet Reads To An Audience Of Women"
Two poems
[because I am the shore I want to be the sea]
Three poems

Renée Ashley's website.

Renée Ashley According to Wikipedia.

About Minglements:

"Ashley's brain is a variegated and teeming landscape, so prepare yourself for hairpin turns and looping iterations in her interviews, reviews, literary scholarship, memoir selections, and reflections on the work of writing and teaching. you will encounter the history of the rutabaga, a noir Easter Bunny and the esteemed Edward Taylor in a jocular moment. Herein are seemingly countless unexpected associations and correspondences, glimpses of 'what is beginning to occur, both in the margins, the periphery of the poem, and in a life.'"
—Claire Bateman