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(since March 08)
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Becky Rodiaauthor profile |
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| born | November 17, 1971 | |||
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| gender | female | |||
| place of birth | Bridgeport, CT, United States | |||
| genre | Poetry, Children's Books, Nonfiction | |||
| influences | everyday life | |||
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about this author
Publications Another Fire is a handmade letterpress limited edition chapbook of seven poems, published in 1997 by Adastra Press, Easthampton, MA. The book is technically available via Amazon, but if you want a copy, the safest bet is to get it through me. Don't be shy! My poems and book reviews have appeared in Calyx, Quarterly West, The Silverfish Review, Willow Springs, The Laurel Review, Poet Lore, Georgetown Review, Indiana Review, and other journals. From 2000-2005, I published and edited the poetry journal Amaranth. For an idea of what I do for money, Google my name and you'll get a sampling of my professional writing, which is mostly related to e...more |
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Becky's writing
Lullaby: Dark Hours (Poetry)
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This is a favorite among my own poems. Hasn't been published anywhere, though -- isn't that always the way? Bonus points if you recognize the song I'm quoting.
Letters From the Sleeping Garden (Poetry)
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Originally published in <i>The Laurel Review</i>.
Contentment (Poetry)
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updated 03/05/2008 05:39PM
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A newer (though still pretty old), unpublished poem. Not sure if I like it, if it's still worth working on, etc. Thought I'd put it up and see what people think.
Houdini Holds the World (Poetry)
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updated 03/05/2008 05:22PM
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Yet another Houdini poem. This one was originally published in <i>Indiana Review</i>.
Cynics (Poetry)
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updated 03/05/2008 05:20PM
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I write a lot of villanelles, and I write quite a bit about my lifelong obsession with escape artist Harry Houdini. So here's a villanelle about Houdini.
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The Lazy Bear (Hardcover) by Brian Wildsmith bookshelves: children-and-ya, currently-reading |
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Our Own Worst Enemy: Asking the Right Questions About Security to Protect You, Your Family, and America (Hardcover) by Randall Larsen bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature (Hardcover) by Daniel J. Levitin bookshelves: to-read |
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Are You in the House Alone? (Paperback) by Richard Peck bookshelves: children-and-ya |
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recommended for: Diehard Peck fans. Teen girls looking for a fast, mindless read.
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"Richard Peck is generally regarded as one of our best YA authors, and when you look at his more recent work, such as the trilogy that kicks off with A Long Way From Chicago, it's easy to see why. His characters can be tough, but funny. His plo...more
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Mystery Train (Pitt Poetry Series)
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In a Blue Room (Hardcover) by Jim Averbeck bookshelves: children-and-ya |
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"Nothing about this book quite coheres. The concept -- a little girl can only fall asleep if everything in her room is blue -- is cute, but the execution is kinda lame. Why is blue so important to the girl? The illustrations don't help either -- nothi...more
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Mary and the Mouse, The Mouse and Mary (Hardcover) by Beverly Donofrio bookshelves: children-and-ya |
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recommended for: kids, especially girls, ages 4-8
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"This is a very simple story. A little girl named Mary lives in a house with her family. In the house is a smaller house, a secret house, in which a family of mice lives. Mary and the little girl mouse slowly become aware of each other, and become fri...more
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One Cow Coughs: A Counting Book for the Sick and Miserable (Hardcover) by Christine Loomis bookshelves: children-and-ya |
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recommended for: kids ages 2-5
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"Super-bright cut and torn paper collage illustrations spark up this rhyme about barnyard animals languishing with minor maladies.
The book starts at the "break of day," with one cow coughing, then counts up to ten, showing us other anim...more " |
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Many Moons (A Harcourt Brace Contemporary Classic) by James Thurber, Marc Simont bookshelves: children-and-ya |
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recommended for: kids ages 5-8
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"I picked up this book at our local library and thought, "Hm. I didn't know Thurber wrote for children." But from the first page of this reissue illustrated by Marc Simont, the story of an ill princess who can only be saved if her father giv...more
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Becky's favorite quotes
"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."
— Katherine Mansfield
— Katherine Mansfield
"If you believe in nothing, honey, it believes in you."
— Robyn Hitchcock
— Robyn Hitchcock
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I knew you graduated from Emerson, actually. That's how I recognized your name. I was there from 92-95. I don't know if we knew each other or not--I'm awful with faces--but I know I bought a copy of your chapbook sometime in the late 90s because I knew you were an Emerson grad. Go figger. :-) Hope you're well.
I knew you graduated from Emerson, actually. That's how I recognized your name. I was there from 92-95. I don't know if we knew each other or not--I'm awful with faces--but I know I bought a copy of your chapbook sometime in the late 90s because I knew you were an Emerson grad. Go figger. :-) Hope you're well.block this member *