Michelle Reale
Michelle (Messina) Reale (January 31, Ambler, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American poet, academic and ethnographer. Reale is a full professor at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She uses poetic inquiry to present her research among African refugees in Sicily and her poetry is mainly concerned with Italian-American life, ethnic identity, histories, family dynamics and remembrance and forgetting.
Michelle Reale
- Born
- 1900
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · ethnographer · writer · university teacher · librarian
- Fields
- immigration · prose · information literacy · social justice
- Languages
- English
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Michelle (Messina) Reale (January 31, Ambler, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American poet, academic and ethnographer. Reale is a full professor at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She uses poetic inquiry to present her research among African refugees in Sicily and her poetry is mainly concerned with Italian-American life, ethnic identity, histories, family dynamics and remembrance and forgetting.
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Among master's degrees in English and library and information science, she has an MFA in creative writing with a concentration in poetry. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Poetry • Season of Subtraction (Bordighera Press, 2019) • All These Things Were Real: Poems of Delirium Tremens (West Philly Press, 2017) • Birds of Sicily (Aldrich Press, 2016) • The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance: Elegies (Aldrich Press, 2014) • Natural Habitat (Burning River, 2011) • Like Lungfish Getting Through the Dry Season (Thunderclap Press, 2012) • If All They Had Were Their Bodies (Burning River, 2013) • This is Not a Situation in Which You Should Remain Calm (Cervena Barva Press, 2014) Academic • Mentoring and Managing Students in the Academic Library (ALA Editions, 2012) • Becoming an Embedded Librarian (ALA Editions, 2015)
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- 1.Michelle Reale - Google Scholar Citations. scholar.google.com.
- 2.Faculty & Staff - Dr. Michelle A. Reale. Arcadia University.
- 3.Book Review: "Birds of Sicily", Poems by Michelle Reale - Times of Sicily. 2016-06-12.
- 4.RCHRISTOPHER. Mentoring and managing students in the academic library. 2013-08-01.
- 5.Becoming an Embedded Librarian: Making Connections in the Classroom—print/e-book Bundle - Books / Professional Development - Books for Academic Librarians - Bundles & Bulk Items - New Products - ALA Store. www.alastore.ala.org.
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