EILEEN HENNESSY

Dates at Hedgebrook
June 1990 (Oak Cottage) 

Genres
Poems, Prose Poems, short stories, genre-crossing pieces

Publications and Productions

  • “On and Off the Avenue,” Shiny, #13.  Shiny International Publications (2005).
  • “The Out-of-Towners” and “Landfill,” The Hat, #5.(Winter 2003-2004).
  • “Not. As. In.” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, #24. (Spring/Summer 2005).
  • “Millennium” and “The Year We Lost Magna Carta, ”Margie – The American Journal of Poetry, (V3/2004).
  • “My Life and Birth,” Sal Mimeo #3.  Sal Mimeo (Spring 2003).
  • “The Insurance Policy,” Fence, V4 #2. (Fall/Winter 2002).
  • [untitled] (“In recent years…”), Paragraph, V8 #1.  Paragraph (Fall 2002).
  • “Colloquy,” The Hat, #4. (Winter 2001).
  • “The Glass Arcade,” Insurance, #2. (2001).
  • [untitled] (“Silence was golden…”), Paragraph, V7 #20. (Summer 2001)
  • “It is best for hares,” Good Foot: A Poetry Magazine, #6. (Spring 2005).
  • “That was no Contest, Angel,” Riversedge, V18 #1. University of Texas at Edinburg (Spring 2005).
  • “She Knew The Game to Play With Him,” Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine, V36. University of North Carolina, Charlotte (2005).
  • “About Eating,” Lilies and Cannonballs Review, V2 #1. (Spring/Summer 2005).
  • “The Coming,” Eureka Literary Magazine, V13 #1.  Eureka College (Fall 2004).
  • “Saturday night at the Saloon,” The Laurel Review, V38 #1.  Northwest Missouri State University (Winter 2004).
  • “Innocence of the Onion” and “I go to the village every day” Southern Humanities Review, V38 #3.  Auburn University (Summer 2004).
  • “Stormgazer. Sometimes thought,” Phantasmagoria, V3 #2.  Century Community and Technical College (Fall/Winter 2003).
  • “Metamorphosis,” Willow Review, V XXX.  College of Lake County (Grayslake, Illinois) (Spring 2003).
  • “The light that lies,” Whiskey Island, #46. Cleveland State University (2003).
  • “Something like an echo, somewhere,” The South Carolina Review, V36 #1. Clemson University (Fall 2003).
  • “Sometimes he thinks about walking,” Limestone 2002. University of Kentucky (2002).
  • “This is a poem about a man,” South Dakota Review, V40, #3, Celebrating New York City. University of South Dakota (Fall 2002).
  • “An easy way to explain hiding” and “At the Beach," Eclipse, V13. Glendale Community College (Glendale, California) (Fall 2002).
  • “Death of a firefighter,” Clackamas Literary Review, V VI, #1.  Clackamas Community College (Oregon City, Oregon), (Spring/Summer 2002).
  • “Cold,” Flash!Point, #6.  Flash!Point (Winter 2002).
  • “Yet another bout of meaningful madness,” The Louisville Review, V 51.  Spalding University (Spring 2002).
  • “Metamorphosis,” Descant 2002, V41. Texas Christian University (2002).
  • “United States Poem Number 3,” Drumvoices Review, V 10 #1-2.  Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (Summer/Fall 2001-Spring/Summer 2002).
  • “The porous land of my father” and “When I saw my father into the hospital” Paintbrush: A Journal of Poetry and Translation, V XXVII.  Truman State University (2000/2001).
  • “Then the worm turns,” The Spoon River Poetry Review, V XXVI #1. Illinois State University (Winter/Spring 2001).
    “American Dead,” The Portland Review, V48 #2. Portland State University (Winter/Spring 2001).
  • “This is the time of light returning,” The Portland Review, V48 #2. Portland State University (Winter/Spring 2001).
    Also published in Iris: A Journal about women, #42.  University of Virginia (Spring 2001).
  • “That which gives it flavor,” Poet Lore, V96 #3. (Fall 2001).
  • “United States Poem Number 13,” CALYX 25, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, V20 #2. (Winter 2001/2002).
  • “Situation with daughter and father," “Situation at the river” Many Mountains Moving, Twelfth Issue, V IV #3, (2001).

Publications and Productions

“The Story” was a finalist in The 2001 Fineline Competition of Mid-American Review. Mention in Mid-American Review, V XXII, #1.  (Fall 2001).

Short Bio
Resident of New York City. Born and raised on Long Island, New York. Translator of foreign-language documentation (legal and commercial materials, patents, magazine and newspaper articles, vital records and academic records, art history) into English from French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and Portuguese. Adjunct Associate Professor in the Translation Studies Program at New York University, where I teach courses in translating French legal documents into English. M.A. in English/Creative Writing, New York University; B.A. in philosophy/psychology/religion, St. John’s University.

Contact Information
PO Box 1470
New York NY 10185-1470
Tel.: (212) 661-7445
Fax: (212) 661-7471
e-mail address provided upon request 

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