Marilyn Peretti Mailing Address: 515 N. Main St. Apt. 1 B-S Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 County: DuPage e-mail: marilynperetti@hotmail.com www.pagesbyperetti.com Phone: home: 630.858.6015 Genre: Poetry

Periodical Publications:

• Black Bear Review, Rockford Review, Seeding the Snow (Chicago), The Leaflet (Artists' Guild-Mortion Arboretum), Christian Science Monitor, St. Luke Lookout (my church), Current (2001), The Bugle (Intern'l Crane Foundation) 2002, Urban Spaghetti, Voices (Our Developing World)

Book Publications:

• Let Wings Take You ISBN 0-9673333-6-9 (2003)
• To Love Cranes ISBN 0-9673333-5-0 (2000)
  Both Sold at gift shop of the International Crane Foundation, Wisconsin and at other crane staging sites, NM, TX.
• Poems of A Woman 0-9673333-2-6 (1999)
• Crack the Rifle in Two 0-9673333-3-4 (1999)

Forthcoming Publications:

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• First Prize (Poetry) Current, Ann Arbor 2001
• Second Prize (Poetry) from National Conference on Aging, 2003

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• (Group Readings) Arlington Poetry Project (regularly) 1998-present
• Barnes and Noble, Schaumburg, IL.
• Wheaton Library, April, 2003
• Glen Ellyn Library, several times (years) in Aprils
• Savannah Series, Plymoth, MI, 2001

Recent Workshops:

• (Attended) With Li-Young Lee, Chicago, IL 2003
• Iowa Writers' Summer Festival, 2002
  with Max Garland and Douglas Goetsch
• U. of Wis-Seminars-twice 1990's
• At Galway Poetry Festival 1999

Present Employment:

• (Retired one year) Now: Pages By Peretti: Web Design, Desktop Publishing, Poetry, Watercolor Artists

Preferred Audience:

• Adults; Nature lovers

Willing to travel:

• Probably, To where? How far?