Cynthia
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Location | Gilbert, AZ - Arizona, United States |
| Introduction | Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow is the author of the poetry collections Horn Section All Day Every Day, and The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor, (Salmon Poetry, 2018, and 2012, respectively) as well as a chapbook Old School Superhero Loves a Good Wristwatch (Dancing Girl Press (2014). Horn Section All Day Every Day has been awarded a 2020 Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award Finalist. Further honors include the Red Hen Press Poetry Award, the Tusculum Review Poetry Prize, Willow Review Prize for Poetry, a Beullah Rose/Smartish Pace Poetry Prize, and three Pushcart Prize nominations, two of which were nominations from the Pushcart Prize Board of Contributing Editors. Her poems have also been featured in numerous anthologies, including: The Plume Anthology of Poetry 5, and 7, Drawn to Marvel: Poems From the Comic Books, Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry, and The Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology. Her poetry has appeared widely, including The American Journal of Poetry, American Literary Review, American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Forklift, Ohio, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Live Encounters Poetry & Writing and The Los Angeles Review. |
| Favorite movies | Svengali -- [1931, with John Barrymore and Marion Marsh] |
| Favorite music | Van Morrison! Otis Redding! Junior Wells! Big Joe Turner, James Brown, Albert King, Guy Clark, Ella Fitzgerald, Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Cash, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Aretha, Graham Parker, Howlin' Wolf, Eddie Shaw and the Wolfgang, Fine Young Cannibals, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Issac Hayes ('I Stand Accused') Johnny Otis ('The Signifyin' Monkey') Laura Nyro, Joe Cocker, Lou Reed, Waylon Jennings, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir, Roy Buchanan, The Reverend J.M. Gates, The Young Rascals, Mink Deville, James Carr, The Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Early Springsteen, Jonathan Blake, Duke Ellington, Chuck Berry, The Great Solomon Burke,Ongoing....33,202 songs in the "RayPod" alone. |
| Favorite books | Far too many to name. It would be less time-consuming to name least favorite. |