Discipline: Literature – poetry

Clare Rossini

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: West Hartford, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986, 1987

Clare Rossini’s third collection, Lingo, was published by University of Akron Press. Her second, Winter Morning with Crow, was selected by Donald Justice for the Akron Poetry Prize. Selections from the Claudia Poems, her first volume, was an art book edition published by the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts. Rossini’s poems and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies such as The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and the Best American Poetry series. Several have been featured on Poetry Daily. The Poetry of Capital, an anthology Rossini is co-editing with Benjamin Grossberg, will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2020. Her poems have been featured on Connecticut Public Radio and the BBC. A former faculty member in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Vermont College, Rossini currently serves as Artist-in-Residence in the English department at Trinity College in Hartford, teaching creative writing courses and directing an arts outreach program that places college students in inner-city public school art classrooms.

Studios

New Jersey

Clare Rossini worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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