WORLD VOICES

SATYR'S WIFE
  BY RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS


Contents

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Introduction

About the Author
Arachne
Beautiful Girl Café
Satyr's Wife
I Run into Count Ugolino
Folktale
Riding with Keats
Petunias
Moths
Venice
Semele
Apollo and Daphne
Basket of Oranges
The Road to Sènanque
Mushrooms
Dreamlife of a Mime
Ariadne in Verona
Parmigianino Thinking
On the Appian Way
Pythia: The Process
Mind Clearing in a
    Chinese Landscape

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About the Author


ritapappas

Rita Signorelli-Pappas has been writing and publishing poetry for over twenty years. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, Southwest Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Chelsea, The Literary Review, and Poet Lore, among other journals. Her poetry has also appeared on the websites Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she was a finalist for the 2008 May Swenson Award, and she received the 2008 Italian Americana Award in Fiction.

She has taught courses in writing and literature at Valparaiso University and Purdue University. Her degrees include a B.A. from Douglass College and an M.A. in Italian literature from Rutgers University. She has been a regular reviewer for Small Press Review and The Women's Review of Books, and she currently reviews poetry for World Literature Today.

The poems from this chapbook are from her manuscript Satyr's Wife.