Barbara LaMorticella lives in a cabin in the woods outside Portland, Oregon. She has edited or co-edited three collections of Portland poetry including Portland Lights in 2000. In 1997, her second collection of poems, Rain on Waterless Mountain, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and in 2000 she received the first Oregon Literary Fellowship for women writers . Barbara was awarded the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award by Literary Arts in 2005, an award presented to a person or organization in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community.
Her work is featured in many anthologies, most recently To Topos Poetry International: Poverty and Poetry, (Oregon State University, 2008), Not a Muse, (Haven Books, 2009), and Eating the Pure Light, (The Backwaters Press, 2009). She's been featured at Bumbershoot , Seattle's Music and Arts Festival, where she won a Bumbershoot Big Book Award. In addition, Barbara was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize , has had her work featured as part of Poetry in Motion, and hosts a regular poetry program, The Talking Earth , on KBOO-FM in Portland.
two poems by [May 18, 2009]
After. Life [Nov 8, 2010]