Paula BonnellWhile a practicing lawyer, Paula Bonnell began publishing her poems in such places as Southern Poetry Review, Manhattan Poetry Review, and Rattle. Her first collection, Message, includes -Eurydice,- a sequence chosen by Albert Goldbarth for a Poet Loe narrative-poetry award, and -Midwest,- broadcast on The Writer's Almanac. Her Airs & Voices was selected by poet and critic Mark Jarman for the Ciardi Prize and published by BkMk Press, a university-affiliated publisher at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, with quotes from Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, and X. J. Kennedy. Meanwhile she discontinued the practice of law, and now works primarily as a writer. Her chapbook Before the Alphabet is a story in free verse of a child's kindergarten year, with quotes from Megan Marshall, Nick Samaras, and Leah Maines. Bonnell's essays and book reviews have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston Review, and The New York Times Book Review, among others. Individual poems by Bonnell have received awards in competitions sponsored by the literary magazines Negative Capability and Kalliope as well as the Chester H. Jones Foundation, and her fiction has been recognized by an award from the NEA/PEN Syndicated Fiction project and publication in the Kansas City Star Sunday Magazine and the Chapel Hill Village Advocate. She is a PEN New England Discovery writer. Since 2007, poems by Bonnell have been published by a variety of print and online journals including The American Poetry Review, Gargoyle, The Hopkins Review, The Hudson Review, Oberon, Rattle, and Spillway. Sequences of her poems have also appeared: -Canoe Trip- in The Poetry Porch, and -A Spy at Large in the Printed Matter- in Slippery Elm Literary Journal, as well as a six-poem feature in The Fictional Cafe. Links to those available free online can be found at www.paulabonnell.net. Also some poems and her essay -The Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska- are at the website. Read More Read Less