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 EILEEN
D'ANGELO
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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