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Jeannette Drake
Jeannette
Drake, born in Newport News, Virginia is a poet and psychotherapist
who incorporates poetry, music, visual art and writing as healing techniqus
in her private practice. She holds a Masters Degree in Social Work and
a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth
University.
Her poetry has been published in Honey Hush! An Anthology of Afican
American Women's Humor, Obsidian, Callaloo: A Journal of African and
African American Arts & Letters, The Southern Review, Xavier Review,
New Virginia Review and other journals and magazines. Three chapbooks,
Bulletin!, Daughter of Abraham and Pods and Peas: Summer Meditations
were published in 1996.
A recipient of Individual Artist Project Grants from The Virginia
Commission for the Arts in 1992 and 1993, Drake won a scholarship award
for drawings exhibited in "Emerging Talent" (Leonard E.B.
Andrews) Foundation in 1999. Drake worked as a writer in the classroom
for more than 20 years and in the fall of 2000 served as poetry instructor
for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation's Saturday
Academy in Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond,
Virginia.
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