Lynn Fitzgerald has met some famous people but regrets to disclose that the ones mentioned here are not part of the catalogue. In fact, it might all be a psychedelic dream on the way to the next whiskey bar, and Virgil and Dante need no persuading. She has not crawled out of a film canister bur has found herself in tight spots, as Alice knows. As for love, oh, what a cunning weaver of fantasy, as Sappho instructs. And, just what is American shab?
She is the author of Closer to the Earth, a book of poems, selected for a Chicago Area Artists Program award and published by Moon Journal Press. Her poem, The Stendhal Syndrome received a Joanne Hirschfield award and the poem, Houseplant, received second place from the Tallgrass Writers poetry contest. She has served as Poet-in -Residence for the Chicago Public Library, as a writer and researcher for River Oaks Arts magazine, and has lived overseas, where she served as an adviser and writer for the International Baccalaureate Program. Her poems have been published in various literary journals and have been selected for inclusion in exhibits. She has been a featured reader at venues in Chicago and elsewhere. She is a professor of writing, literature, and ESL classes for Chicago City Colleges.
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“Lynn Fitzgerald’s Of Bourbon and Kids is largely about the complex relationships we keep with lovers, family, heritage, and writing, and how we negotiate their dynamics. These sensuous poems, like paintings, pull us directly into their scenes while still conjuring the mystery that makes poems resonate, the mystery of “that night” when you pulled with your eyes/the whole prairie into your sleeve.”
~Brenda Cardenas
“Lynn Fitzgerald’s Of Bourbon and Kids is a deeply felt exploration into mysteries that attract and pull us apart—often at the same time. Using a keen eye and surprising language, she guides us on this treacherous path as if balanced “on the bottom of an overturned boat.” She is not interested in arriving at conclusions but prefers instead to deepen our engagement with the difficulties of love and desire.”
~Mike Puican
“In Lynn Fitzgerald’s Over Bourbon and Kids, Greek myth merges with genealogy against a tableau of cherry red Cadillacs, apple trees, and the skirts of Catholic girls. In these poems, we encounter iconic figures from Virgil to Penelope to Marilyn Monroe, while Fitzgerald entwines us in the technicolor splendor of films and art “’with words that sounded like a song.’”
~Simone Muench