Millicent Borges Accardi

Injuring Eternity (World Nouveau)

Millicent Borges Accardi will read and sign her most recent poetry collection, Injuring Eternity. Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American poet, is the author of two books: Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press chapbook) and Injuring Eternity (World Nouveau). She has received literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, and was a Formby Fellow at Texas Tech, researching the work of writer-activist Kay Boyle.  Millicent’s work has appeared in Nimrod, Tampa Review, New Letters, and Wallace Stevens Journal, as well as in Boomer Girls (Iowa Press) and Chopin with Cherries (Moonrise Press) anthologies. Residencies include Yaddo, Jentel, Vermont Studio, Fundación Valparaíso in Mojacar, and Milkwood in Cesky Krumlov. She received degrees in English and writing from CSULB, holds an MPW (1993) from USC and works as a freelance writer (theater reviews, grants and instructional design). THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 10, 2011.