{"id":8,"date":"2018-03-17T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deanieblank.com\/wp\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2023-02-01T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:11:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deanieblank.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Deanie Rowan Blank\u00a0is the recipient of a W. B. Yeats Pierce Loughran\u00a0Scholarship.\u00a0Her poetry has appeared widely in literary journals and was performed\u00a0by the East Haddam Stage Company.\u00a0She is a Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Tenth Anniversary Prize finalist.\u00a0Her poem,\u00a0\u201cSong for the Innocent Child,\u201d has been set to music for Piano and Choral by\u00a0conductor and composer Robert Strebendt, and performed. Her focus on writing follows her retirement as a state and national health program developer.<\/p>\n

Deanie\u2019s poetry appears in Prairie Schooner<\/em>, one of the oldest and most respected literary journals in the United States\u2014the special Ireland issue is devoted to contemporary Irish writing. An excerpt of her long rhyming poem, on the Irish mythic hero, Cuchulain, appears in another issue of\u00a0Prairie Schooner<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Her winning haiku appeared on products and publications of the ITO EN Oi Ocha, co-sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.<\/p>\n

Deanie\u2019s book, Walking Naked Under a Yellow Rain Slicker.<\/em> is presented here under the Books<\/strong> <\/a>Section.<\/p>\n

She is currently preparing a poetry collection titled \u201cDanger, Danger\u201d pertinent to the poetry and stories of myth, magic, morality, and\u00a0mischief. To be born is dangerous, to step off a curb, to lose a job opportunity, to have a handicap\u2014one that shows or one that doesn\u2019t, to be hit by a bullet, to be diagnosed with cancer, or Parkinson\u2019s, or depression\u2014it\u2019s all dangerous and risky. To live life fully is to know danger. Danger is a curve ball about to strike. Do you let it hit your head, do you duck, catch it, drop it, bury it, throw it back? Do you learn from it, do you become weaker, or more resilient on life\u2019s journey? The veracity, vinegar, and spice of Deanie\u2019s poems make them a compelling read to be relished even by those not ordinarily drawn to poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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