May you always know, my little one, you were
Read MoreAuthor: John Stanizzi
John L. Stanizzi is the author of Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time!, High Tide – Ebb Tide, Four Bits, Chants, Sundowning, POND, The Tree That Lights The Way Home, Feathers and Bones. Viper Brain, and SEE.Besides Discretionary Love, John’s work has been widely published -- Rattle, Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, American Life in Poetry, The New York Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, Tar River Review, PoetLore, and many others.
His nonfiction has been published in Literature and Belief, Stone Coast Review, Ovunque Siamo, and many others.
John has read at venues all over New England, including the Mystic Arts Café, the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, Hartford Stage, and many others. He also coordinated the Fresh Voices Poetry Competition for Young Poets at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut. A “teaching artist” for the national poetry recitation contest, Poetry Out Loud, John spent a decade with Poetry Out Loud
A former Wesleyan University Etherington Scholar, New England Poet of the Year (1998), and Poet-in-Residence in Manchester, CT, John has recently been awarded an Artist Fellowship in Creative Non-Fiction – 2021 - from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Culture, and Diversity for work on his new memoir, Bless Me, Father, for I Have Sinned. He taught literature at Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut, for 26 years. He taught high school English and directed the theater program at Bacon Academy in Colcheseter, CT. for 24 years. Johnnie lives with his wife, Carol, in Coventry, CT.
