Goddess of Swizzle - Paperback

Brewer, Shirley J.: - "Shirley J. Brewer graduated from careers in bartending, palm-reading and speech therapy. She is a poet, educator, and workshop facilitator. Shirley serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for the Arts in Baltimore, and on the board of Passager, a nonprofit, independent publisher whose mission is to publish and present the work of older writers. Her award-winning poems garnish Smartish Pace, Poetry East, Slant, Gargoyle, Chiron Review, The Comstock Review, and many other journals/anthologies. Nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize, Shirley was a 2020 guest on The Poet and The Poem with Grace Cavalieri, former Maryland poet laureate, broadcast from the Library of Congress, where Shirley's poems are now archived and - as part of the Lunar Codex program - are currently on the moon! Her lifetime of poetic research includes (brief but memorable) conversations with Al Pacino, Bette Midler, Richard Chamberlain, and Robin Williams.Shirley received the first-ever Creativity Award from the University of Baltimore, where she earned her MA in Creative Writing/Publishing Arts. Her personal definition: I Am Shimmering Goddess Energy. Website: shirleyjbrewer.com"