Wanda Praisner

Wanda Praisner, a retired educator, is currently a Poet in Residence for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared in journals including Atlanta Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Lullwater Review, Margie,New York Magazine and Slant. She has been anthologized in Out of Season, Amagansett Press, 1993) and The Breath of Parted Lips-- Voices From the Robert Frost Place, CavanKerry Press (2004) and contributed to Teaching With Fire, Jossey-Bass (2003). She is a recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and fellowships from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Her poetry has received numerous awards, including the Kudzu Prize from The Devil’s Millhopper, the Maryland Review’s Egan Award, and First Prize in Poetry at the College of New Jersey Writers’ Conference. She’s been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. She was a featured reader at the Governor’s Conference on the Arts and at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Her book of poems, A Fine and Bitter Snow, was published in 2003 by Palanquin Press (USCA).

On the Bittersweet
Avenues of Pomona
Poetry by Wanda Praisner
2006, ISBN: 9780974070155
Chapbook $8.00

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"These poems by Wanda Praisner are reminiscent of photos in a cherished family album, but they are remarkably more than that. Like photos, they bring us image enlivened by emotion, but they are also full of that subtle brilliance we find in the best poetry, insisting along with the poet herself that The need to go, the need to stay / this is what it means to be alive."

- Phebe Davidson