Discipline: Literature – poetry

Frank Ortega

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Cold Spring, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993
Frank Ortega is a writer and poet whose work has been published by The Madison Review, Colorado Review, Ferro-Botanica, Seneca Review, Z Miscellaneous, Downtown, Amicus Journal, Paragraph, and most recently in the latest issue of Oberon, as well as by Lost Horse Press in I Go to the Ruined Place, an anthology of human rights poetry. He has been awarded writing residencies at MacDowell, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Karolyi Foundation (France), Dorland Mountain Colony, and Millay Colony for the Arts, and a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has read in New York City at the Poetry Society of America, The Knitting Factory, the New York Public Library, the Brecht Forum, CB's 313, and Barrow Street Poets. His most recent performance readings were Fifty States at Cornelia Street Café (NYC) and Louisiana Voices at Time & Space Limited (Hudson, NY). He was awarded a working scholarship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont and recently received a performance grant from Poets & Writers, Inc.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Frank Ortega worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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