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LAURA BOSS, a national award-winning poet, was a first prize winner in Poetry Society of America's Gordon Barber Poetry Contest. Founder and Editor of Lips poetry magazine, she was the sole representative of the USA in 1987 at the XXVI Annual International Struga Poetry Readings in Yugoslavia. Her awards for her own poetry also include an American Literary Translators Award (funded through the National Endowment for the Arts), and Fellowships in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State in 1999, 1992, and 1986. Her books of poetry include Stripping (Chantry Press, 1982) the award-winning On the Edge of the Hudson (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1986), and Reports from the Front (CCC, 1995) which was nominated for an American Book Award. Her most recent book is Arms: New and Selected Work (Guernica Editions, 1999). Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times and in the anthology: The Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary (Jersey Shore Publications). In 1998 her manuscript was one of ten finalists in the country in Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. She has been a featured reader at the United Nations, Princeton University, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., the Geraldine R. Dodge Festival (Poets Among Us), the Paterson Marathon, the Newark Museum, the New York Public Library, NJPAC, University of Northern Michigan, St. Mary's College in Maryland, and numerous other poetry venues and universities in this country and Europe. |
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Editor
Laura Boss