Lucia Cordell Getsi Mailing Address: 1224 E. Grove St. Bloomington, IL  61701-4213 County: McLean E-mail: lcgetsi@ilstu.edu Phone: work: 309-438-7906 home: 309-828-8671 Genre: Poetry

Periodical Publications:

• Poetry has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, Nimrod, Willow Review, The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Rhino, Poetry and Letters, Another Chicago Magazine, Pikestaff Review, Clockwatch Review, and others.

Book Publications:

• Bottleships: For Daughters, Aquila Press (Isle of Skye, Scotland), 1996
• Intensive Care, New Rivers Press, 1993 (reprinted, 1995)
• Teeth Mother Letters, Moonsquilt Press, 1984 (reprinted, 1992)
• No One Taught This Filly to Dance, Pikestaff Press, 1989
• Georg Trakl: Poems, Ohio U. Press, 1973

Forthcoming Publications:

• Four poems in Bayou (University of New Orleans), 2001
• Included in Twentieth Century Illinois Poets, eds. Kevin Stein and G.E. Murray, U of Illinois Press

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Pablo Neruda Prize, 1999
• 1995 Governor's Award for the Arts
• 1994 Illinois Author of the Year
• N.E.A. Creative Writing Fellowship
• 4 Illinois Arts Council Poetry Fellowships
• Fulbright Scholarship (Germany)
• 1994 Illinois Author of the Year
• Many others
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Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• Illinois Humanities Council Teacher Seminar of Illinois Writers, Starved Rock State Park, 2001
• Literatur Haus, Salzburg, Austria, 2000
• Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 2000
• University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1998
• 1997 - 98: Poetry readings in Krakow (Poland), University of Salzburg, University of Arizona
• 1996: Writers Live at the Library Poetry Reading in Lisle (IL), College of DuPage County (IL), College of Lake County (IL), Charis Books (Atlanta, GA), Hemingway Days Literary Conference (keynote speaker, Key West, FL), and Kansas State University.

Recent Workshops:

• Decatur School for At-Risk Youth, 2001
• Nimrod Awards Conference, University of Tulsa, 1999
• University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1998
• Poet in Residence, Armstrong School, Peoria, 1996/li>
• Illinois Wesleyan University, Los Angeles School for At-Risk Youth, and the University of Souther California
• Master's classes and workshops at many colleges, secondary schools, and elementary schools, in many states and foreign countries

Present Employment:

• Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.

Preferred Audience:

• All audiences

Willing to travel:

• yes