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contact name: Florence Dacey
email: florence@florencedacey.com

location address:
Box 31
Cottonwood MN 56229

open to public: no

Pseudonym: Florence Chard Dacey

BS in English, St. Louis University, St. Louis MO
MA in Education, Stanford University

Writing Retreat, Norcroft Writing Retreat for Women, 2003, 2005
Writing Retreat, New York Mills, 2003
Loft-McKnight Award in Poetry, l988
McKnight/SMAHC Individual Artist's Career Grants, 1988, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2005, 2008.
One of the featured poets in Nimrod's special thirty year anniversary publication, "Thirty/ 33."
Featured Poet, Great River Review , February 1995
Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, Nimrod-Hardman Awards, 2nd place in poetry, 1996.

Readings at the U. of MN (Minneapolis and Morris), Southwest State U. , North Hennepin Community College, WARM Gallery, Grand Marais Art Colony, Winona State, Mankato State, Gustavus Aldolphus, The Minneapolis College of Art and Design, U. of Tulsa, OK, Soho Gallery, NYC, the Evergreen State College (WA), Blue Mounds Reading Series in Luverne, video for "Northern Lights," a series on Minnesota authors, Java River Cafe (Montevideo)

PUBLISHED POETRY

Rock Worn by Water, Plain View Press, 2009
Maynard Went this Way, Good Dog Productions, 2006.
The Necklace , Midwest Villages & Voices Press, Minneapolis, MN, l988
The Swoon , Minnesota Writers' Pub. House, l979
"Lightning," an opera libretto, Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theater, Minneapolis, l985
Prologue ("Now the Leaves") for Illuminations, Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, College of St. Catherine, Minneapolis, 1998

Poems have been published in numerous journals, most recently in Avocet, Monthly Review, Albatross, Oklahoma Review, Phantasmagoria., Dust and Fire and Out of Line. Poems have also appeared in anthologies including: Farming Words, To Sing Along the Way, Writers Who Cook, Ringing in the Wilderness, We Say Our Struggle, Looking for Home, Poets of Southwestern Minnesota, As Far As I Can See, and Midwestern Women Poets.
"The Garden Renewed," essay on Rural Arts, Here And Now, McKnight Foundation, 1996.
"Hands Rising to Meet the World," essay for catalog for 25th retrospective on In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, Weisman Museum, U. of Minnesota Press, 1999.
"Staying," feature article for Minnesota Monthly, June, 2001.
Essay in Voices for the Land, Milkweed Editions, 2001.

Country of Citizenship:
United States

Ethnicity:
Northern European

Birth Place:
Waukegan, IL

Birth Date:
July 28, 1941

Gender:
Female

Active Place:
Southwest Minnesota

Minnesota County:
Lyon

Poet

http://www.florencedacey.com