In a direful way, reaching forth In a wave of wanting, like a woman Is supposed to want babies and a home And a man, to want to attract anything And anyone better than her as a lifetime Of being a mere child, a poor thing, a lesser Than to be silenced and chit-chitted away […]
Millicent Borges Accardi
Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American writer, is the author of four poetry books, most recently Only More So (Salmon Poetry). Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Fulbright, CantoMundo, Creative Capacity, the California Arts Council, The Corporation of Yaddo, Fundação Luso-Americana, and Barbara Deming Foundation. She’s led poetry workshops at Keystone College, Nimrod Writers Conference, The Muse in Norfolk, Virginia, and University of Texas, Austin. Her non-fiction can be found in The Writers Chronicle, Poets Quarterly, and the Portuguese American Journal. Recent readings at Brown University, Rutgers, UMass Dartmouth, Rhode Island College and the Carr Reading Series at the University of Illinois. Recent work appears in The Journal, Laurel Review, Mantis and Quiddity.