Linda McCauley Freeman is the author of two full-length poetry collections The Marriage Manual (Backroom Window Press, 2024) and The Family Plot (BWP, 2022) and has been widely published in international journals, including in a Chinese translation. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been the featured U.S. poet in The Poet Magazine and won Grand Prize in StoriArts' Maya Angelou poetry contest, and honorable mention in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards 2024. Lines from one of her poems are on display at the Civil Rights Memorial Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. She has an MFA from Bennington College and is the former poet-in-residence of the Putnam Arts Council. She lives in the Hudson Valley, NY, where she is a swing dance teacher and a yoga instructor. Follow her at www.LindaMcCauleyFreeman.com, Facebook@LindaMcCauleyFreeman
I'm excited to be one of CAP's Featured Poets on February 7, 2025
I'll also be doing a number of readings and poetry workshops throughout the Hudson Valley this year including at the Poughkeepsie Library and ArtsMidhudson.
April 8, 6-8pm POETRY CRAFT WORKSHOP & April 16, 6-8pm POETRY PUBLISHING WORKSHOP
ArtsMidhudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie
April 10, 6-8pm THE ART & CRAFT OF POETRY WORKSHOP
Poughkeepsie Library, 93 Market Street
May 16, 3:30-5pm WRITING FROM LIFE writing workshop
June 5, 7-8:30pm POETRY AS MEMOIR, MEMOIR AS POETRY, writing workshop
Sarah Hull Hallock Library, Milton, NY
UPCOMING READINGS 2025
February 7, 7-8pm
Featured reader, Calling All Poets
April 2, 7-8:30pm
Featured reader with Kate Hymes and Raphael Kosek, followed by open mic. Arts MidHudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie
April 17, 7-8pm
Featured reader @the Poughkeepsie Library, 93 Market Street
November 8, 2-3pm
Featured reader Woodstock Poetry Society
ABOUT ME: Linda McCauley Freeman is the author of two full-length poetry collections The Marriage Manual (Backroom Window Press, 2024) and The Family Plot (BWP, 2022) and has been widely published in international journals, including in a Chinese translation. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been the featured U.S. poet in The Poet Magazine and won Grand Prize in StoriArts' Maya Angelou poetry contest, and honorable mention in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards 2024. Lines from one of her poems are on display at the Civil Rights Memorial Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. She has an MFA from Bennington College and is the former poet-in-residence of the Putnam Arts Council. She lives in the Hudson Valley, NY, where she is a swing dance teacher and a yoga instructor. Follow her at www.LindaMcCauleyFreeman.com, Facebook@LindaMcCauleyFreeman