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JoAnn Balingit
Guest Editor
Delaware Poetry Review • Fall, 2012
Delaware Poet Laureate JoAnn Balingit is the editor for the 2012 edition of Delaware Poetry Review.

Balingit is the author of Your Heart and How It Works (Spire Press, 2009); and Forage (Wings Press, 2011), winner of the Whitebird Chapbook Prize. Her manuscript, Fish I Swallow Whole, was a finalist in the 2012 Crab Orchard Series open competition in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, DIAGRAM, Gargoyle, Smartish Pace, PoetsArtists, Salt Hill Journal and on Verse Daily.

Appointed Delaware's poet laureate in 2008, JoAnn teaches poetry for schools and non-profit organizations, and coordinates the Delaware Scholastic Writing Awards for grades 7 through 12 statewide. Her awards include fellowships from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Delaware Division of the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. joannbalingit.org

A statement from JoAnn Balingit about this edition of Delaware Poetry Review

"I'm delighted to share poems by poets with ties to the mid-Atlantic region, poets who have enriched their communities with their work on and off the page. In choosing work for this issue of the Delaware Poetry Review, I looked for words "excited as wetted yeast"--to borrow a line from Josiah Bancroft's "Bath Time." I looked for riveting geographies--internal geographies of love, regret, disdain, or meditative wonder; and physical geographies that take a reader from Mt. Kilimanjaro to the horse farms of the Eastern Shore to a coveted Sunday ride on Father's bicycle crossbar. For all of these poets, as Abby Millager says, "there are Worlds at stake."
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