Barbra Nightingale

Poet

Hollywood, FL
Florida US

Author's Bio

200 poems are published in literary magazines and anthologies, including Barrow Street, Kansas Quarterly, Coydog Review, Red Hen, Sliver of Stone, The Florida Review, The Chatahoochie Review, Mississippi Review, The Liberal Media Made Me Do It, and Grabbed. Seven books of poetry include Lovers Never Die, Lunar Equations, Prelude to a Woman, Singing in the Key of L (NFPS 1999 Stevens Prize Winner), Geometry of Dreams, Two Voices, One Past, and Alphalexia. Barbra Nightingale is a Professor Emeritus from Broward College and is currently an Associate Editor with the South Florida Poetry Journal. 

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
Having a Wonderful Time (Harcourt Brace, 1997)
Books:
Greatest Hits (Pudding House Publications, 2000)
,
Singing in the Key of L (NFSPS Press, 1999)
,
Lunar Equations (East Coast Editions, 1993)
,
Lovers Never Die (Pteranodon Press, 1981)
Journals:
Apalachee Quarterly
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Barrow Street
, ,
Comstock Review
, ,
Kalliope
,
Many Mountains Moving
,
Mi Po Print
,
Mississippi Review
Prizes won: 

1999 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Award, Singing in the Key of L. Finalist and semi-finalist in Aningha and other contests, including the Bluestem. Awarded an Atlantic Center for the Arts residency, and a Mosal Scholars award, as well as an Endowed Teaching Chair (1997), and again in 2010.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds, Alicia Ostriker, James Tate, Pablo Neruda, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, too many others to mention!

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
Raised in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
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Last update: Dec 28, 2020