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Ioanna Opidee lives in Connecticut with her husband and two daughters. She holds a BA from Boston College, an MA from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and an MFA from Fairfield University's Low Residency Program. Ioanna has worked as a journalist for several publications including Folio: and University Business magazines. Her creative work has appeared in Spry literary journal, Drunken Boat, Lumina, Talking Writing, Weave, Outside In, and The Huffington Post, among other publications. She currently teaches high school English in Connecticut and has previously taught at Fairfield University, the University of Connecticut Stamford, and the University of Massachusetts Boston. ...more

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Waking Slow

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Citizen: An American Lyric

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“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered? Why does death so catch us by surprise, and why love? We still and always want waking.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

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