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Michele Kotler

Executive Director, Community-Word Project

Birth Year
b. 1968
Current City
New York, USA
Birth City
Queens, New York, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry

Biography

Michele Kotler is a poet living in New York City, the city that birthed and raised her. She received her MFA in creative writing poetry from the University of Michigan after receiving her BA in creative writing poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the founding director of the Community-Word Project, a teaching artist training and artist in the schools organization. Her poetry has appeared in in Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds, The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose, Washington Square Review, Spinning Jenny, Painted Bride Quarterly and SWWIM.

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Subject Matter

Childhood, Cultural Identity, Family, Friendship, Gender, Grief & Elegy, History, Loss, Love, Marriage, Motherhood/Fertility, Narrative, Parenting, Sex, Trauma, Whiteness, Multidisciplinary, Feminism, Mental Illness, Race.