 Eileen
D'Angelo a paralegal by day and a mad poet at night,
has been nominated for a Governor’s Award in
the Arts, a Pushcart Prize in Poetry, and judged Philadelphia
area poets in open auditions for the HBO pilot/series,
Def Poetry Jam.
Her manuscript, True Tales from the Home Front, was
a finalist in both the University of North Carolina’s
Palanquin Press Chapbook Competition and Byline Chapbook
Competition.
A two time finalist in the Allen Ginsberg Competition
sponsored by the Paterson Literary Review, Eileen
is the Director of the Mad Poets Society and runs
about 60 events a year, including poetry readings,
series, competitions, workshops and special events.
Her poetry and book reviews have been published in
Rattle, Paterson Literary Review, Drexel Online Journal,
Negative Capability, The Aurealean, Bookends, Hinge
and others. On March 16th, one of her readings will
be taped at the Time Warner/AOL studio in Flushing,
NY, for QPTV, a public television station. She has
performed at Main Street.
Chairman of the Endorsement Committee and former Trustee
of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, Eileen recently
taught poetry at the Montgomery County Writers Conference,
judged the Ursinus College’s Poetry Competition.
She was awarded a Community Service Award from Delaware
County Parks and Recreation Department, Chester High
School and the Philadelphia Writers Conference, and
she now serves as a PWC board member.
An advocate for domestic abuse awareness, Eileen has
performed and coordinated benefits for the Domestic
Abuse Project and several benefits for “Solace”,
a battered women’s shelter in NJ and she was
awarded a 2004 Victims Rights Award from the Domestic
Abuse Project and Del. County D.A.’s Office.
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