Angela Rydell
photo by Shoshauna Shy

CONTACT

ajrydell@wisc.edu

angela.rydell.googlepages.com

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Angela Rydell
Madison, Wisconsin

BIO

Angela Rydell teaches poetry and creative writing workshops for the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies including the annual Writers' Institute conference, Write-by-the-Lake and Weekend with Your Novel. Her private craft class and poetry workshop, Craft & Critique, has been a popular favorite of Madison poets since 2004. As of 2008, she is planning a Mindfulness Journaling class for the UW-Madison Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program, and facilitates journaling classes through Lives Unlimited. She has also taught creative writing in the adult education program at Edgewood College, as poet-in-residence in elementary schools, and in programs for senior citizens. Her work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quartely, Beloit Poetry Journal, Barrow Street, Poets & Writers, Crab Orchard Review, The Sun Magazine and other journals. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson College and lives with her husband, science-fiction writer Brendan Day.

Angela Rydell’s website lists current and upcoming workshops, private critique details, and hosts the newsletter and anthology Second Wind. The Second Wind anthology features published poems by participants in Angela’s workshops, and the Second Wind newsletter offers online space for participants to share updates on their poetry news. Angela has plans for additions to the newsletter, including a column on publishing tips and one on craft tips. Second Wind is updated online, and emailed to students periodically.

Private Critiques - Angela is available for private critiques at a rate of $10.00/one-page poem. angela.rydell.googlepages.com/ privatecritiques

Website - angela.rydell.googlepages.com
Second Wind anthology - angela.rydell.googlepages.com/secondwind
Second Wind newsletter - angela.rydell. googlepages.com/newsletter
Craft & Critique - angela.rydell.googlepages.com/craftandcritique
UW-Madison Continuing Studies Division - dcs.wisc.edu/default. htm
UW-Madison Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program - apps.uwhealth.org/cse/detail.jsp?cse=479
Rhinelander School of the Arts - dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/soa/default.htm

PUBLICATIONS

On the Web:
thesunmagazine.org/issues/389/the_international_forgiveness_institute.html
barrowstreet.org/poems/ARydell01.html

madpoetry.org/madpoets/rydellan.html

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BOOKINGS

2010

June
Conducting a workshop at Write-by-the-Lake June 14th-18th called "Plumbing the Depths: The Art & and Craft of Emotion" on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus

    POEM

TWO MILLION FLOWERS MEAN ONE POUND OF HONEY

Bend your mind
     into the hollow of a tree, believe

in the ability of the body to be brainy,
     the brain to be what the body needs,

all hive alive, mining motion, while
     motion’s mining mind. Each cell,

each bubbly blurb, has a story
     to tell, is a gelatinous home to hone.

Nearness. Emptiness. Fullness. Blur and drone
     and work and shape the thought and

another’s born. Relax—there’s flow:
     wax wells

from the body, builds, blends
     easiest when warmer, softens

as heat heightens, then hardens into form.
     Hollowness helps: wallow in it,

fill it with business and melt until
     you’re hot enough—

start at hive’s top and inch by inch
     cinch downward, using your head

as a tool, a means of measure
     to help hold honey in,

keep it from running out.
     You are what you think, sweet talker.

Previously published in Crab Orchard Review

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