Judith Rowe Michaels

Poets (L-R) BJ Ward, Lois Marie Harrod & Judith Rowe Michaels at the Thursday, January 22 reading.
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Judith Rowe Michaels
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Judy Rowe Michaels, author of Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry With High School Students, serves as Poet-in-Residence, K-12, at Princeton Day School and is a Poet-in-the-Schools for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.Michaels, who earned a Ph.D in English from Bryn Mawr, has published poems in many journals, including Poetry, Yankee, Poetry Northwest, Columbia Review, and The Women's Review of Books.She has won two Poetry Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was a consultant on teacher outreach for PBS's poetry series with Bill Moyers, The Language of Life, as well as for the satellite broadcast from the 1998 Dodge Poetry Festival and Moyer's 1999 series Fooling with Words.She has served as a writer and consultant on arts education for the Lincoln Center Institute in New York and for Young Audiences of New Jersey and gives poetry workshops around the country.Some of her poems have appeared in Cool Women, Volume 1 and Cool Women, Volume 2, collections of poetry by seven women poets from central New Jersey, and in Bearing Witness, Poetry by Teachers about Teaching, from Zephyr Press.In May of 2001, University Press of Florida issued The Forest of Wild Hands, her collection of poems about her mother's and her own experiences with cancer.And in October 2001, the National Council of Teachers of English published her newest book, Dancing with Words: How to Help Students Love Language.

See www.judymichaels.com for her conference topics and readings, for a list of ovarian cancer websites, and to hear her read from her poetry collection.