Cecilia Woloch is the author of five collections of poems, most recently Carpathia, published by BOA Editions in 2009. She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and is currently a lecturer in the creative writing program at the University of Southern California, as well as the founding director of The Paris Poetry Workshop.

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced its selection of Cecilia Woloch as a recipient of an NEA Fellowship. Click HERE to see the full list of recipients.

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This is a gorgeous book by a poet who is passionately alive in the world. —Natasha Trethewey

Fireflies

And these are my vices:
impatience, bad temper, wine,
the more than occasional cigarette,
an almost unquenchable thirst to be kissed,
a hunger that isn’t hunger
but something like fear, a staunching of dread
and a taste for bitter gossip
of those who’ve wronged me—for bitterness—
and flirting with strangers and saying sweetheart
to children whose names I don’t even know
and driving too fast and not being Buddhist
enough to let insects live in my house
or those cute little toylike mice
whose soft grey bodies in sticky traps
I carry, lifeless, out to the trash
and that I sometimes prefer the company of a book
to a human being, and humming
and living inside my head
and how as a girl I trailed a slow-hipped aunt
at twilight across the lawn
and learned to catch fireflies in my hands,
to smear their sticky, still-pulsing flickering
onto my fingers and earlobes like jewels.

From Carpathia, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2009.

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Cecilia runs private workshops for writers in both Los Angeles and Atlanta, and wherever she travels in the U.S. and Europe. She works with both prize-winning poets and fledgling writers and is available to lead groups of 10-12. She is also available, on a limited basis, for individual manuscript consultation.

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