Michelle (Messina) Reale[1] (January 31, Ambler, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American poet, academic and ethnographer.

Reale is a full professor[2] at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She uses poetic inquiry to present her research among African refugees in Sicily and her poetry is mainly concerned with Italian-American life, ethnic identity, histories, family dynamics and remembrance and forgetting. Among master's degrees in English and library and information science, she has an MFA in creative writing with a concentration in poetry. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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Poetry

  • Season of Subtraction (Bordighera Press, 2019)
  • All These Things Were Real: Poems of Delirium Tremens (West Philly Press, 2017)
  • Birds of Sicily[3] (Aldrich Press, 2016)
  • The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance: Elegies (Aldrich Press, 2014)
  • Natural Habitat (Burning River, 2011)
  • Like Lungfish Getting Through the Dry Season (Thunderclap Press, 2012)
  • If All They Had Were Their Bodies (Burning River, 2013)
  • This is Not a Situation in Which You Should Remain Calm (Cervena Barva Press, 2014)

Academic

  • Mentoring and Managing Students in the Academic Library[4] (ALA Editions, 2012)
  • Becoming an Embedded Librarian [5](ALA Editions, 2015)

References edit

  1. ^ "Michelle Reale - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
  2. ^ www.arcadia.edu | Arcadia University https://www.arcadia.edu/faculty-and-staff/dr-michelle-a-reale/ | Arcadia University. Retrieved 2016-07-26. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "Book Review: "Birds of Sicily", Poems by Michelle Reale - Times of Sicily". 2016-06-12. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
  4. ^ RCHRISTOPHER (2013-08-01). "Mentoring and managing students in the academic library". Retrieved 2016-07-26.
  5. ^ "Becoming an Embedded Librarian: Making Connections in the Classroom—print/e-book Bundle - Books / Professional Development - Books for Academic Librarians - Bundles & Bulk Items - New Products - ALA Store". www.alastore.ala.org. Retrieved 2016-07-26.

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