Millicent Borges Accardi^[1] is aPortuguese-American poet^[2] who lives in California. She has received literary fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Fulbright,CantoMundo,^[3] theCalifornia Arts Council,Foundation for Contemporary Arts,Barbara Deming Foundation,^[4] and Formby Special Collections atTexas Tech University.

Accardi received degrees in English and literature fromCalifornia State University, Long Beach (CSULB), holds a master's in professional writing from theUniversity of Southern California (USC).^[5] She also studied at theVermont College of Fine Arts in 1993.^[6]

Her book,Through a Grainy Landscape, a collection of poetry based on contemporary Portuguese literature is withNew Meridian Arts, 2021. Other poetry collections includeQUarantine Highway, (FlowerSong Press),Only More So, (Salmon Poetry, Ireland),Injuring Eternity with World Nouveau^[7] She has achapbook,Woman on a Shaky Bridge, with Finishing Line Press.^[8]

Her articles can be found at theAssociation of Writers & Writing Programs, andAnother Chicago Magazine.Interview subjects have included Grammy DirectorMichael Greene; poetsW.S. Merwin^[9] andCarl Dennis; writersFrank X. Gaspar,Sam Pereira,^[10] Jacinto Lucas Pires, Donna Freitas (Sex and the Soul), andNuno Júdice;^[11] Paulette Rapp (daughter of The Bickersons writer),Stephen Rebello (Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho), playwright Bill Bozzone, CantoMundo founders, and Portuguese-American scholar Deolinda Adão.^[12]

Accardi's work has appeared in over 150 publications,^[13] includingNimrod,Tampa Review,New Letters andThe Wallace Stevens Journal, as well as inBoomer Girls (Iowa Press) and The Experiment Will Not Be Bound: An Anthology, Peter Campion, ed. (Unbound 2023) anthologies.Artist residencies includeYaddo, Jentel, Vermont Studio, Fundación Valparaíso inMojacar, Milkwood inČeský Krumlov, CZ and Disquiet in Lisbon, Portugal.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012, Accardi started the "Kale Soup for the Soul" for the reading series featuring Portuguese-American writers. The first edition was in Chicago^[14][15] at theChicago Cultural Center. Since then, "Kale Soup for the Soul" readings have featured over 25 different writers, in regional readings in cities such as San Francisco,^[16][17] Seattle,^[18] Iowa City, Providence, Rhode Island,^[19] Boston^[20] and San José^[21][22]—as part of a new wave of Portuguese-American Literature. In 2013, there were "Kale Soup for the Soul" readings at the Mass Poetry Festival in Salem, the Valente Library in Cambridge, and the Portuguese Consulate in Boston.^[23]

Poetry collections:

• Quarantine Highway (FlowerSong Press 2022)
• Through a Grainy Landscape (New Meridian Arts Press, 2021)
• Only More So (Salmon Poetry, 2016)^[24]
• Injuring Eternity (Mischievous Muse Press, December, 2010)^[25]

Chapbooks:

• Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press, 2010)^[26]

Source:^[27]

• Author website
• Profile at Poetry Foundation

• American women poets
• Living people
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
• Poets from California
• People from Topanga, California
• Portuguese-language American writers
• Writers from Long Beach, California
• American people of Portuguese descent
• California State University, Long Beach alumni
• University of Southern California alumni
• 20th-century American poets
• 21st-century American poets
• 20th-century American women writers
• 21st-century American women writers
• Wilson Classical High School alumni

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