Michelle Reale
Michelle Reale is an Italian-American poet, academic and ethnographer.
Reale is a full professor at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She uses poetic inquiry to present her research among African refugees in Sicily and her poetry is mainly concerned with Italian-American life, ethnic identity, histories, family dynamics and remembrance and forgetting. Among master's degrees in English and library and information science, she has an MFA in creative writing with a concentration in poetry. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Books
Poetry- Season of Subtraction
- All These Things Were Real: Poems of Delirium Tremens
- Birds of Sicily
- The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance: Elegies
- Natural Habitat
- Like Lungfish Getting Through the Dry Season
- If All They Had Were Their Bodies
- This is Not a Situation in Which You Should Remain Calm
- Mentoring and Managing Students in the Academic Library
- Becoming an Embedded Librarian