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Ginny Lowe Connors

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Ginny Lowe Connors is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Without Goodbyes: From Puritan Deerfield to Mohawk Kahnawake, Toward the Hanging Tree: Poems of Salem Village , The Unparalleled Beauty of a Crooked Line, and Barbarians in the Kitchen, as well as a chapbook, Under the Porch, winner of the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. In addition, she has edited six anthologies, including Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry . She’s won numerous awards for her poetry, including the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, the Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition, and various prizes sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, including their top prize, The Founders Award. Connors has been invited to participate in th ...more

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Ginny Lowe Connors A lot of things converged when I was inspired to write Toward the Hanging Tree. I have attended and given presentations at the Mass. Poetry Festival, …moreA lot of things converged when I was inspired to write Toward the Hanging Tree. I have attended and given presentations at the Mass. Poetry Festival, which takes place annually in Salem, Massachusetts, and I wondered why poets had not seized on the fascinating history of the witchcraft hysteria that took place in the 1690’s. My approach to history has always been to focus on the personal and to try to imagine what it must have been like for ordinary people living through extraordinary events. That was the approach I took in my latest book, a book of lyric history or history told through poetry: trying to imagine myself into the hearts and minds of the people of Salem and the neighboring towns that were also affected. I’ve been told this book was a “natural” for me to write, since I was born on Halloween. Also, as an eleven-year-old child, I played one of the afflicted girls in a college production of The Crucible, and the strange tale simmered in the back of my mind for years afterward.(less)
Ginny Lowe Connors This question assumes that I take an organized approach to reading and make a list. How amusing.
I grab books when I see a great review, get a recommen…more
This question assumes that I take an organized approach to reading and make a list. How amusing.
I grab books when I see a great review, get a recommendation from a friend, or hear of a new book by an author I love. I do have a "pile" of books waiting for my attention, and I usually turn to this pile when I'm ready for another read.
Right now it contains Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals" by Agha Shahid Ali (I've already dipped into it but want to spend more time with the poems), The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret, When Heaven & Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip, and Two If By Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard. (less)
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