Leslie McGrath
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Leslie McGrath (June 15, 1957 – August 7, 2020) was an American poet, editor, and educator. Critic Grace Cavalieri called McGrath “an oral historian of the alienated." She authored the poetry collection Feminists Are Passing from Our Lives (The Word Works, 2018); Out From the Pleiades: a picaresque novella in verse (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014), and Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage (Main St. Rag, 2009), a finalist for the 2010 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry;. She received the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry in 2004, and taught at Central Connecticut State University from 2009 - 2019. She published three chapbooks: By the Windpipe (ELJ Editions, 2014); the satiric novella in verse, Out From the Pleiades (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014); andToward Anguish, which won the 2007 Philbrick Poetry Award. Her most recent publication is a full-length collection of poetry Feminists Are Passing from Our Lives (Word Works 2018). McGrath co-edited Reetika Vazirani's posthumous poetry collection, Radha Says: Last
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15 June 1957
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7 August 2020 (aged 63)
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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