Corrine De Winter

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Corrine De Winter is a Bram Stoker Award winning Poet and author who has won numerous awards for her writing from the New York Quarterly, Triton College of Arts & Sciences, & The Rhysling Science Fiction Award. Her work has been applauded by such luminaries as William Peter Blatty (“The Excorcist” author) Tom Monteleone, Thomas Ligotti, Nick Cave, Stanley Wiater, James Sclavunos, Heather Graham, Harry O. Morris, and others. Her latest book of fiction “Valentines For The Dead, ” was published this year, and has garnered many lively reviews. WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING: 'Corrine De Winter is a virtuoso of forlorn Romanticism. Her poems are those of one who is perpetually aware that all must end and, in many cases, the sooner the better. In others, a mortal ending is insufficient and others may be required. Admirers of Nico may hear in De Winter's work echoes of the morbid chanteuse's voice accompanied by a harmonium breathing its last.' -Thomas Ligotti “De Winter's stories are a strange mix of ethereal worlds, yet vivid and raw, with a timeless wisdom- reminds me of our beloved Rainer Maria.' -Jutta Rilke 'De Winter's stories have a great quality to them- Saki's creepy succinctness mixed with the epiphonic resonance of Dubliners-era Joyce. Quite unique.' -James Sclavunos (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) 'A beautiful, exotic dream world exists in De Winter's writing..' - William Peter Blatty (author of 'The Excorcist') William Packard, former editor of the New York Quarterly, was a mentor, publishing De Winter’s work early on and inviting her to write “The Present State of American Poetry, ” a regular feature in the journal. At Packard’s invitation she read her poetry at the New School in NYC, and continued a rapport with Packard until his passing. Packard was a big supporter of Charles Bukowski and De Winter was published with him several times in his last years. De Winter won the Bram Stoker Award in 2005 for her collection “The Women At The Funeral.” Five of her collections have been Stoker Nominated. A Naturalist, Philanthropist, Paranormal expert, Artist and the founder of “Small World Fund For Children, ” Radio Host for SUPER NATURAL RADIO, on the Blogtalkradio.com website, De Winter lives between this world and the next.)

The Best Poem Of Corrine De Winter

As If The Angels

As If The Angels

As if the angels were listening
When we least suspected they would spy on us-
As if God did not have a sense of humor,
Or be given to mood swings.

I do not live in the beehive: I AM the beehive,
Buzzing in circles, twirling about
The layout in search of sweetness,
But also in a shadowed knowing
That no matter what I would find,
It was all the same.

In the womb of life here, we may drown-
And our drowning no less a statement
Than coming up for air,
Or toiling to survive the river
Which rushes against us.

The dragonfly, our universal Mother
With wings veined like fine leaves
Alights in all of our lives with a message:
You must fly. You must rise above the cages
Of humanity, though you are among the swamplands,
And below is a tangle of black
You cannot fathom.

You must fly.

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