Press

The Laureate Project: Episode 37 of The Laureate Project from Matt Hoisch: Pennsylvania (Bucks County) Lake Angela

Bucks County Beacon: “Bucks County’s 2024 Poet Laureate Uses Poetry and Dance to Destigmatize People with Schizophrenia”

News: Lake Angela Named 2024 Bucks County Poet Laureate

WHYY article: “Bucks County Community College names new poet laureate, continuing long literary tradition”, with Lake Angela and Ethel Rackin

REVIEWS

Crip News v.153–see Scivias Choreomaniae in “New Works”, 2024

“Scivias Choreomaniae, a poetry collection about madness and mystics, psychosis and prisons by Lake Angela” in intima: a journal of narrative medicine, 2024

Review of Words for the Dead in At the Inkwell

INTERVIEWS

Five Questions with Therapeutic Dance Instructor & Poet Lake Angela from Thimble Literary Magazine

Interview on collaboration with Lake Angela and Georg Amsel in Icebreakers Lit 

Esokapi Mystika : danza, lenguaje, movimiento y creación artística (by Jésica Cichero, introduction in Spanish and interview in English)

INFORMATION

Lake Angela in the Poets & Writers Directory

Profile for the Associació de Professionals de la dansa de Catalunya (APdC)

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, 2022 Poet Laureate of Bucks County Judge, comments on Lake Angela’s poetry that placed in the contest:

These poems show us the insights and violence of living with vulnerabilities through synesthesia, through visions, and stories lived simultaneously alongside the life handed. The poems invite the reader to a world where boundaries between plastic and bones are blurry, where the body is a hole and a whole season. One could suppose that the poems restore or reconcile how the world is to what imagined world is but that would be to presume that the world is compassionate or that the world is transformed by the storytellers in the poems. Like K in the poem “The Children,” the speaker in the poems describes the everday visions as though “there is nothing remarkable.” These poems are brave and honest and necessary.

Associate editor Sally Geiger of Northern Michigan University’s literary journal, Passages North, comments on Lake Angela and Georg Amsel’s poem:

In “Winter,” life itself is a series of double-edged swords. Language constrains, but also offers a continuity that we can reach back toward. The snow is crystalline, but clouds the night sky of its constellations. Winter marvels in the bleak beauty of the paradox.