Renée Ashley has received fellowships in both poetry and prose from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment of the Arts. A portion of her poem, "First Book of the Moon," is included in a permanent installation by the artist Larry Kirkland in Penn Station, Manhattan, NY. She has served as Assistant Poetry Coordinator for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and as Poetry Editor of The Literary Review and Tiferet. She's been in residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches part-time in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing and the MA in Creative Writing and Literature for Educators programs at Fairleigh Dickinson University and at Murphy Writing Programs, Stockton State University. Ashley is the author, most recently, of Ruined Traveler, a book of prose poems from Otis Books/Seismicity Editions. Her essay collection, Minglements: Prose on Poetry and Life, was also published in 2019 (Del Sol Books). Other volumes of poetry include: The View from the Body (Black Lawrence Press), Because I Am the Shore I Want to Be the Sea (Subito Book Prize, University of Colorado—Boulder); Basic Heart (X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press); The Revisionist's Dream; The Various Reasons of Light (both Avocet Press Inc); and Salt (Brittingham Prize in Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press), as well as a novel, Someplace Like This, and two chapbooks, The Museum of Lost Wingsand The Verbs of Desiring.

Other poems by Renée Ashley in Verse Daily:
November 17, 2019:   "What We Don't Understand" "looks up at us and begs. It sits up. Bends..."
June 19, 2016:   "Spindle, Lathe" "Thirst rose in her from a sitting position...."
October 24, 2013:   "contemplation within the framework of the dream" "Consider the custom of likeness or unlikeness fit as the..."
February 26, 2012:   "Armadillo" "Deep in the unlit palm scrub, a rustling..."
July 5, 2005:   "Simple" "and the whole white sky descends a grain..."
December 8, 2004:  "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary" "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary..."

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Other poems on the web by Renée Ashley:
"[So you try to remake a life]"
"[The gate to sleep does not fly open but the fence around it falls away]"
Three poems
"There Is"
Four poems
"The Poet Reads To An Audience Of Women"
Two poems
[because I am the shore I want to be the sea]
Three poems

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