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Priscilla Turner Spada

Priscilla lives in Newburyport, MA and is a new member—Jan.2020—of the Powow River Poets. She has manned the book-sales table at the Powow Saturday readings at the Newburyport Public Library for four years. Her chapbook, Light in Unopened Windows, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. She is included in seven Ibbetson Street literary anthologies, #'s 40 to 46; Merrimac Mic anthologies #'s II, IV, V; What is Home, an anthology published by the Portsmouth (NH) Poet Laureate Project; and Wingbeats II, Dos Gatos Press. She has read and been featured at many local and regional venues. She is also an artist—drawing and painting, and a glassbead/jewelry maker, having her own business for 20 years—published in Lark Books and other art publications. Priscilla sings with a 200-women world music chorus based in Portsmouth, NH.

Books

Light in Unopened Windows (Finishing Line Press, 2016)

Anthologies

Ibbetson Street Press: #'s 40, 41,42, 43, 44, 45, 46
Merrimac Mic: II, IV, V
What is Home; PPLP
Wingbeats II (Dos Gatos Press, 2014)

Honors

First Rockport Poetry Festival, 2019: 2nd prize, Ekphrastic Poetry Contest

Other

25-year member of Voices from the Heart, Portsmouth, NH. The chorus has six CD's and has toured, benefiting charities in: Ireland, Croatia & Slovenia, Cuba and South Africa.

A one-of-a-kind handmade poetry book with the subject of my father's death in WWII, produced for the Portsmouth Poet Laureate exhibit at the Bouys Gallery, Kittery, ME, 2014

Priscilla Turner Spada

Priscilla lives in Newburyport, MA and is a new member—Jan.2020—of the Powow River Poets. She has manned the book-sales table at the Powow Saturday readings at the Newburyport Public Library for four years. Her chapbook, Light in Unopened Windows, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. She is included in seven Ibbetson Street literary anthologies, #'s 40 to 46; Merrimac Mic anthologies #'s II, IV, V; What is Home, an anthology published by the Portsmouth (NH) Poet Laureate Project; and Wingbeats II, Dos Gatos Press. She has read and been featured at many local and regional venues. She is also an artist—drawing and painting, and a glassbead/jewelry maker, having her own business for 20 years—published in Lark Books and other art publications. Priscilla sings with a 200-women world music chorus based in Portsmouth, NH.

Books

Light in Unopened Windows (Finishing Line Press, 2016)

Anthologies

Ibbetson Street Press: #'s 40, 41,42, 43, 44, 45, 46
Merrimac Mic: II, IV, V
What is Home; PPLP
Wingbeats II (Dos Gatos Press, 2014)

Honors

First Rockport Poetry Festival, 2019: 2nd prize, Ekphrastic Poetry Contest

Other

25-year member of Voices from the Heart, Portsmouth, NH. The chorus has six CD's and has toured, benefiting charities in: Ireland, Croatia & Slovenia, Cuba and South Africa.

A one-of-a-kind handmade poetry book with the subject of my father's death in WWII, produced for the Portsmouth Poet Laureate exhibit at the Bouys Gallery, Kittery, ME, 2014

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