Autor/-in: Irene Mitchell

In addition to the present collection, Chronicles of an Antediluvian, Irene Mitchell is the author of nine other poetry books including An Overdose of Meditation (Dos Madres Press, 2024), and My Report from the Uwharries (Dos Madres Press, 2022). Mitchell's Selected Poems, was published by FutureCycle Press in 2021. Dos Madres Press has published two other recent collections, Clerestory (2020), and Fever (2019). Mitchell taught Writing, English, and English to Speakers of Other Languages in inner city and rural New York. She has conducted poetry workshops and served as judge in poetry competitions. Formerly poetry editor of Hudson River Art Magazine, Mitchell is known for her collaborations with visual artists and composers. Her poems were set to music for piano and voice in an art-song cycle entitled Past All Doors, which debuted in Stuyvesant, New York. Several of her poems have been executed as broadsides and exhibited ad hoc at regional galleries and libraries. Mitchell's early correspondence with poetry editors and scholars is included in the final collection of The Aylesford Mss. archived at Indiana University's Lilly Library. Mitchell was a recent Associate Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.