Discipline: Literature – poetry

Michelle Burke

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Michelle Y. Burke worked on a poetry manuscript tentatively titled Northbound. Her poems have appeared in the Spoon River Poetry Review, Lake Effect, the New Orleans Review and elsewhere.

Studios

Veltin

Michelle Burke worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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