Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents
This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Kendal Lambert that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty.
Salt to Make a Sea
by Renée Ashley
The Festival of Almost Getting There
by Renée Ashley
© Renée Ashley. From The View from the Body (Black Lawrence Press, 2016).
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The Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway and Murphy Writing are programs of Stockton University.
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Want to study with Renée Ashley? Renée will lead the poetry portion of the Creative Writing Sampler and an Algonquin-Style Poetry Workshop at the 2017 Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway.
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Renée Ashley is the author of six collections of poetry: Salt (Brittingham Prize in Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press), The Various Reasons of Light, The Revisionist’s Dream, Basic Heart (X.J. Kennedy Prize in Poetry, Texas Review Press), Because I Am the Shore I Want to Be the Sea (Subito Book Prize) and The View from the Body. She has also published two chapbooks, The Museum of Lost Wings (Hill-Stead Poetry Prize) and The Verbs of Desiring (New American Press Chapbook Award) and a novel, Someplace Like This. She teaches in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University and does freelance editing; she’s received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her website is reneeashleyatwork.com.
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