Lake Angela

Poet

Doylestown, PA
Pennsylvania US

Author's Bio

Lake Angela is a poet, translator, and dancer-choreographer from Lake Erie who creates at the confluence of verbal language and movement. Her full-length books of poetry include Scivias Choreomanaie (Spuyten Duyvil), Organblooms (FutureCycle Press), and Words for the Dead (FutureCycle Press). She holds a PhD from The University of Texas at Dallas for her intersemiotic translations of German-language Expressionist poetry into dance and has her MFA in poetry. She is a medieval mystic and nonhuman creature. Her poems and choreography often explore the possibilities in and kinds of darknesses and silences and the expressions of colors, waters, and suffering. Lake is poetry editor for the international literature and arts journal Punt Volat, director of Companyia Lake Angela, and advocate of schizophrenia spectrum creativity. Her poetry-dance may be found on her website: www.lakeangeladance.com.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Scivias Choreomaniae (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024)
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Words for the Dead (FutureCycle Press, 2021)
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Organblooms (FutureCycle Press, 2020)
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BODY
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Bombay Gin
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Die Leere Mitte
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filling Station
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Poetry Salzburg Review
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Prizes won: 

2024 Poet Laureate of Bucks County, PA

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Georg Trakl, Maria-Mercè Marçal, Mercè Rodoreda, Hadewijch, Mechthild, Hildegard, and Angela of Foligno, Peter Høeg
What I'm reading now: 
Fliegen Lernen: Gedichte by Dorothee Sölle

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Disability, Illness/Wellness, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Seniors, Women
Fluent in: 
English, German
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Last update: Nov 22, 2024