Michelle Reale is an Associate Professor at Arcadia University. She holds an MFA in poetry and is the author of five poetry collections. In 2017, Dancing Girl Press will release her chapbook The Marie Curie Sequence, and in 2018 Cervena Barva Press will release Confini: Poems of Refugees in Sicily. She maintains a website of writerly things at michellemessinareale.com.
I am a calming cobalt blue. A contradiction. Really, I am a problem solver, a gift from my mother. The ash she’d let grow so long on her cigarette, I thought it would grow legs and walk away. She had gifts like that. She’d survey the wisdom of the crowd and make proclamations that people tended not to believe, but… Read more →