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West Philadelphia poet Bonnie MacAllister, 31, was nominated in October 2007 for the Pushcart Prize. She was nominated by Turtle Ink Press (Syracuse, NY) who recently published her poem, "Rosary" in Coevolution 2: Shivering through the Details (the Monday Night Poetry 2007 Anthology). She was nominated by editors Amy Lawson-Cassady and John Beck.
The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited annually to nominate work they've published. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976.
Turtle Ink Press’ Monday Night Poetry takes place at the Downtown Writer's Center, in the YMCA, 340 Montgomery Street, Syracuse, NY. Monday Night Poetry and its projects are funded in part by the DeFrancisco Arts and Cultural Grants, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse, NY. Coevolution2: Shivering through the Details, in other words, would not be possible without their support. So, a special thank you to the CRC and Senator DeFrancisco.
Bonnie MacAllister is an artist, arts administrator, and educator. Her work has appeared most recently at the DC Arts Center, the Philip Ratner Museum, AIR Gallery (NYC), Holy Family College, and High Wire Gallery (Philadelphia). A five-time slam champion, she has delivered her deconstructed breath verse at over sixty venues in several countries. Bonnie has also been published by the Feminist Journal, Paper Tiger Media in Brisbane, Australia, UK's nth Position, New York City’s Small Spiral Notebook, Magnaphone, Hinge Online, Venus Zine, Ireland’s Dead Drunk Dublin and Other Imaginal Spaces, Amherst Press, and University of Judaica Press.
Bonnie MacAllister was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and she is a graduate of the Central Bucks school system where she studied under 2005 Bucks County Poet Laureate Patricia Goodrich at Lenape Middle School and 2006 Bucks County Poet Laureate Marie Kane at Central Bucks West. She went on to attend Albright College where she received her BA in English-French-Women’s Studies. She spent her junior year abroad in Paris where she studied under the “Father of Deconstruction,” Jacques Derrida and “one of the mothers of Poststructuralist Feminist Theory,” Helene Cixous. Currently, a graduate student at Temple University, MacAllister is pursuing her Master of Education, Secondary Education with dual certification in English and French.
MacAllister is currently the Co-President of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Philadelphia Chapter, established in 1972. She is currently at work on several public art collaborative projects, for Penn State Delaware County and for the Rotunda. Her visual work is currently on display at the Penn State Delaware County library, and she will be part of two exhibits at the City Government Building in Wilmington, DE in May 2008.
BonnieMacq's Genres: poetry, creative non-fiction
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