Moving House - Tapa blanda

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell's Moving House is a book of dark, defiant memory: “We lived and died by stories in that house.” These spare, taut poems evoke their stories with powerful economy.

Angela O’Donnell teaches English, Creative Writing, and American Catholic Studies at Fordham University in New York City where she also serves as Associate Director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. A former resident of Baltimore, O’Donnell taught at Loyola College for 18 years before moving to New York. Her chapbook, MINE, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2007. A second chapbook, Waiting for Ecstasy, was published by Franciscan University in 2009. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including America, First Things, Christian Century, Comstock Poetry Review, Concho River Review, First Things, Die-Cast Garden.com, Hawaii Pacific Review, New Texas, Pedestal Magazine.com, RUNES: A Review of Poetry, Windhover, and Xavier Review. She has been selected as a finalist for the Foley Poetry Award, the Elixir First Book Award, and the Mulberry Poets & Writers Award. O’Donnell lives with her husband in Bronxville, NY and in some proximity to their three college-age sons.