Lee Desrosiers
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Lee Desrosiers (they/them) is a native New Yorker who moved north to hear the crickets, and has lived in New England for the last 30+ years. Lee is currently working on two books at the same time. Their Honorable Mention poem in the 2023 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest is from a series which is a meditation on and a conversation with gender.
Desrosiers edits and publishes a journal of narrative poetry, Naugatuck River Review as well as Wordpeace.co, a multi-genre online literary journal dedicated to peace and social justice. They have three full-length collections of poetry. The latest is Keeping Planes in the Air (2020) from Salmon Poetry. Two chapbooks, Inner Sky and Typing with e.e. cummings, are from Glass Lyre Press. Lee teaches Poetry in the Lesley University MFA graduate program, and English Composition at Westfield State University. They are previously published as "Lori Desrosiers".
Photo by Adrianne Mathiowetz
Website: http://loridesrosierspoetry.com
Winning Entry: my gender
Contest Won: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2023, Honorable Mention
