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For
Immediate Release: Bonnie MacAllister nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Local
poet Bonnie MacAllister, 31, was nominated 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 the author of several chapbooks:
Some Words Are No Longer Words, Poems 2005-Present, and Paid in Goats
(all published by Waffle House Productions). Chapbooks are available for purchase through Pay Pal and
Etsy by emailing bmacallister@earthlink.net.
ART
NEWS
MacAllister
is currently the Co-President of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Philadelphia
Chapter, established in 1972. She serves on the National Exhibition Committee
of the National Women’s Caucus for Art and on the Website Committee of the
WCA/DC. She recently finished
several public art collaborative projects for Penn State Delaware County and
for the Rotunda. Her visual work is currently on display as part of two
exhibits at the City Government Building in Wilmington, DE in May 2008. The “Women
Helping Women: Stitch by Stitch” exhibition will
travel to New Jersey and Florida this summer and benefits Afghan women directly
through the work of Rubia.
Upcoming:
May
2-31, 2008
"Environmental
Distress" at the City County Building Wilmington (http://www.ci.wilmington.de.us/artloop/) which is a
government building in Delaware.
At
the City County Building show, there will be a spotlighted piece called
"Women Helping Women: Stitch by Stitch" made by Afghan women and the
WCA (embroidery and fabric). We are working with Rubia (http://www.rubiahandwork.org/), a non-profit who
work to give Afghan women a living wage.
LIT
NEWS
Bonnie
will perform at the following engagements:
June
28, 2008
http://www.myspace.com/onefloorup
September
2008
Blam!,
The Set Table, East Falls, Philadelphia, PA
