Michelle (Messina) Reale (January 31,
Ambler, Pennsylvania
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) is an Italian-American poet, academic and ethnographer.
Reale is an associate professor at
Arcadia University
Arcadia University is a private university in Glenside, Pennsylvania. The university enrolls approximately 4,000 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students. The campus features Grey Towers Castle, a National Historic Landmark.
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Glenside, Pennsylvania
Glenside is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Cheltenham Township and Abington Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It borders Northwest Philadelphia. The population was 7,737 at the 2020 census on a land area of ...
. She uses poetic inquiry to present her research among African refugees in Sicily and her poetry is mainly concerned with Italian-American life, ethnic identity, histories, family dynamics and remembrance and forgetting. Among master's degrees in English and library and information science, she has an MFA in creative writing with a concentration in poetry. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Books
Poetry
*Season of Subtraction (Bordighera Press, 2019)
*All These Things Were Real: Poems of Delirium Tremens (West Philly Press, 2017)
*Birds of Sicily (Aldrich Press, 2016)
*The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance: Elegies (Aldrich Press, 2014)
*Natural Habitat (Burning River, 2011)
*Like Lungfish Getting Through the Dry Season (Thunderclap Press, 2012)
*If All They Had Were Their Bodies (Burning River, 2013)
*This is Not a Situation in Which You Should Remain Calm (Cervena Barva Press, 2014)
Academic
* Mentoring and Managing Students in the Academic Library (ALA Editions, 2012)
* Becoming an Embedded Librarian
(ALA Editions, 2015)
References
External links
* http://www.sempresiclia.wordpress.com Blog
* http://www.michellmessinareale.com Official website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American writers of Italian descent
Arcadia University faculty
American women poets
American ethnographers
American women anthropologists
American women academics
21st-century American women
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