Lee Passarella
Poetry (and Other Matters)
Lee Passarella has written poetry and fiction for many years. But figuring that most writers would be hungry anyway if they had to fall back on their writing alone, he has decided to put most of his eggs in the green-and-yellow basket of verse, that least remunerative of literary forms. Ah, but it's a lofty one, is it not?
Passarella grew up in the City of Brotherly Love, or its outskirts, and attended Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Ph.D. in English literature. He found this useful when teaching college English. (But like Shakespeare's Prospero, he has ""objured" the "rough magic" of teaching altogether, finding other pursuits both more salutary and remunerative.) Passarella also serves as senior literary editor of Atlanta Review magazine and associate editor of the brand-new literary journal FutureCycle.
His poetry has appeared in Chelsea, Cream City Review, The Formalist, Antietam Review, Mediphors, Edge City Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Snake Nation Review, Slant, Italian Americana, The Louisville Review, Tar River Review, The Writer's Journal, Poems & Plays, and quite a few other places by now. He has won several poetry awards and in 2004 was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
To get in touch, contact Lee Passarella at passarel@bellsouth.net. He'd like to hear from you.Now Available
Lee Passarella's poetry collection The Geometry of Loneliness was published in September 2006 by David Robert Books. It's available from Amazon.com and other online booksellers. For a sample, just click the More Poetry button.
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Passarella's long narrative poem based on the American Civil War, Swallowed Up in Victory (White Mane Books), appeared in 2002. To learn more, see Amazon.com, which has some information from the publisher, as well as a nice little appreciation by the folks at Midwest Book Review. |
Read some poems:
"The Window" and other poems, The HyperTexts
"Gods and Movie Stars," Cortland Review
"Immanence," Valparaiso Poetry Review
"Earthly Things" and other poems, Electric Acorn
"Dead Letters" and other poems, Blue Fifth Review
"Augury," Rock & Sling
"Kite Flying at Brigantine," The New Formalist
"Through a Rearview Mirror" and "Memorial," Red River Review
"Sixth Floor Lounge, Oncology," Uncharted Lines: Poems from The Journal of the American Medical Association (anthology)
"Rapture," 3rd Muse Poetry Journal
"Momento Mori," Poetrybay
"The Passing of G. F. Handel," Handel.org
"Prospero's Farewell," Robert Schumann: Then, Now and Always
"Dvorak and the Crows" and other poems, Slow Trains Literary Journal
"November Where He Grieves" and "Instinct," FutureCycle
"Eye of the Storm" and "Too Much," The Melic Review
"The Quality of Light" and other poems, Umbrella
Listen to an interview:
Features a reading from The Geometry of Loneliness. Host: Collin Kelley of Leisure Talk Radio Network.
Just Published
From Pudding House Publications: A poetry chapbook entitled Sight-Reading Schumann. For a preview, see the six poems that appear in Ygdrasil.
Other poems in the collection were first published in Chaffin Journal, Poems & Plays, Chattahoochee Review, Blue Fifth Review, Mobius, and The New Formalist.
Order Sight-Reading Schumann directly from Pudding House.
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