Linda McCauley Freeman

POET, TEACHER, AUTHOR, WRITER, CREATOR
Available for Readings & Workshops

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS 2025

April 8 & April 16 (ZOOM)

 6-8pm POETRY CRAFT & PUBLISHING WORKSHOP

Sponsored by ArtsMidhudson MORE INFO AND REGISTER

April 10, 6-8pm THE ART & CRAFT OF POETRY WORKSHOP (IN PERSON)

Poughkeepsie Library, 93 Market Street

May 16, 3:30-5pm WRITING FROM LIFE WRITING WORKSHOP (IN PERSON)

Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, Milton

June 5, 7-8:30pm POETRY AS MEMOIR, MEMOIR AS POETRY (IN PERSON)

Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, Milton

 

UPCOMING READINGS 2025

February 7 @ 7pm (ZOOM) Register for the link 

Featured reader, Calling All Poets

April 2 @7pm (IN PERSON)

Featured reader with Kate Hymes and Raphael Kosek, followed by open mic. Arts MidHudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie

MORE INFO AND REGISTER 

April 17 @ 7pm (IN PERSON)

Featured reader @the Poughkeepsie Library, 93 Market Street

Sept 11 @ 7pm (IN PERSON & ON ZOOM)

Featured reader @ Bright Hill Literary Press, Treadwill NY

November 8 @ 2pm (IN PERSON & ON ZOOM)

Featured reader Woodstock Poetry Society 

 

BOOKS

The Marriage Manual 

(Backroom Window Press, 2024)

“Read the Marriage Manual and enter love in all its incarnations.”

–Darcy Smith, River Skin

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The Family Plot

(Backroom Window Press, 2022)

“Honest and brave these poems chonicale a family’s wounds and a child’s survival.”

–Beth Copeland, Blue Honey

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Linda McCauley Freeman Reads Poems From the Marriage Manual on her Book Launch Tour at the Poetry Barn in West Hurley, NY

READ MY WORK!
RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Featured USA Poet in THE POET MAGAZINE

THREE POEMS FOR A NEW WORLD in New World Writing Quarterly

IMAGINE SEEING in Headlight Review

THE THINGS I WOULD SAVE in Wordpeace

PAJAMA in Lightwood Press

THE QUEEN TALKS TO HER MIRROR in Sunlight Press

ANCIENT in Sylvia Magazine

IN PRINT:

“Blondie” and “Dagwood” and Dick Tracy” and Nancy Drew” and “Peanuts” all published in MOSS PIGLET

“STILL LIFE” in Tomorrow & Tomorrow Birth Issue, 2022

“Witness” in Popshot Quarterly

IN THE NEWS

JUST IN! My poem “Simmering” received honorable mention in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest 2024!

Check out an excerpt from my book featured on BLOOM

Reader Review:

“Linda McCauley Freeman has given us a poetic journey filled with intimate moments, sharp observations, and unforgettable imagery. Warm, wise, sometimes funny, often poignant, her narrative poems deftly marry craft and accessibility, as she chronicles both the bright and dark places of family life from youth to adulthood, never losing the thread of tenderness and compassion. A wonderful, satisfying read, and a truly impressive debut.”

THE FAMILY PLOT: Poems

Backroom Window Press, 2022

In this, her first full-length collection of poems, Linda McCauley Freeman tells the story of an American girlhood spent in a large and boisterous family that is sometimes dysfunctional, sometimes dangerous. The Family Plot is part memoir, part survival history, with plenty of space for a heroic portrait of the materfamilias, described in the title of one poem as “My Italian Catholic Human Rights Commissioner Mother” who even as she descends into dementia rises mightily from her chair. Rises mightily, one might add, in these poems as one focus of meaning amidst this rich complexity of personality over which the poet’s keen intelligence broods with an objectivity not devoid of kindness and deep affection. “I will remind her who she is/every time she forgets,” McCauley Freeman writes, and again, “It’s not that I can’t remember/her face, a kaleidoscope/of pictures. . . .”

BIO

Linda McCauley Freeman is the author of the full-length poetry collections The Marriage Manual (BWP, 2024) and The Family Plot (Backroom Window Press, 2022) and has been widely published in international journals, including in a Chinese translation. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2022. Recently she was the featured poet in The Poet Magazine, and appeared in Delta Poetry Review, Amsterdam Quarterly, and won Grand Prize in StoriArts’Maya Angelou poetry contest, and honorable mention in the 2024 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. Lines from one of her poems were selected by Kwame Alexander to use in his Civil Community Poem and are on display at the Civil Rights Memorial Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. She received a grant from Arts MidHudson and was selected for Poets Respond to Art 2020, 2021 2022 and 2024 shows. She was a three-time winner in the Talespinners Short Story contest judged by Michael Korda. 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 also a swing dance teacher (www.got2lindy.com) and yoga instructor (www.blissbodyoga.com)

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