Poems by Lynne Potts have appeared
in Paris Review, Southern Humanities Review, Oxford Magazine,
Cumberland Review, Art Times, River Oak Review, Green Hills
Literary Review, Drumvoices, AGNI, and many
other journals -- 35 poems in all.
She has an MFA from Columbia University where she was Poetry
Editor of the Columbia Journal of Literature and Art in
2003-2005. She has read at Poets House, Columbia University
Gallery, Ear Shot, 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, and Cornelia Street
Café – and was a featured poet on WKCR, New York. In
2004 she was awarded the HD Prize by the Poets Project in New
York.
As a fellow for the 2006 Ludington Poetry Festival in Ludington,
MI, Lynne read for public audiences and taught workshops.
Lynne was selected to be a participant in the Bread Loaf
Writer’s Conference of August 2006 and has been awarded a full
fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in
2007. She has taught poetry at the Globe Institute in New York
and the American School of Marrakech, and has written a text
called "Eating Poetry" which teaches the elements of poetry
though imitation of accomplished masters of the craft.