Discipline: Literature – poetry

Margaret Reges

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Oakland, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Margaret Reges is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and her honors include a “Discovery”/ Boston Review prize from the 92nd Street Y and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, MacDowell, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poems have appeared in The Boston Review, The Iowa Review, jubilat, B O D Y, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere.

Reges worked on her first collection of poems, Run, while at MacDowell.

Studios

MacDowell

Margaret Reges worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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