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Background
With years of college and career moves in the past, Denise Amodeo Miller renewed her childhood love of writing in Fall 2006.
She joined a local writers group about that time, and soon she became an organizer of that terrific and talented assembly.
Within a very short time after, her poem "The Richness of Beef" won the Second Place award in Sol Magazines Winter 2007 Poetry Contest: http://pages.prodigy.net/sol.magazine/sol07winter.htm
In June 2008, "Vittles and Tea" won First Place in the 2008 Gulf Coast Poets Poetry Competition. http://gulfcoastpoets.info/ found in the June 2008 Poetry Chronicles
The Write Now Project was a month and a half long daily poetry undertaking that Denise was invited to participate in September 2008. At the end of the duration, several of her poems were placed in competition against the other particapants. Her poem "Blood Boost Blood" was pronounced a First Place winner of the Volunteers Poem catagory. http://sol-magazine-projects.org/pww/WriteNow09-2008.pdf
Many of her poems also appear in the Trees of Surprise Anthology, Empty Shoes: An Anthology of Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless and Nickel City Nights, and will soon appear in the 2010 Buffalo Anthology (Check it out at http://www.buffaloanthology.blogspot.com/).
She has performed her poetry at Buffalo's Largest Live Poetry Event, Urban Epiphany, The Infringement Festival and many other area venues. Her live readings are available to be heard through a link on this site.
While her passions move her to poetry, she has also begun trying her hand at other forms of writing and has been published, also, in part of the best selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
Poetry
A small sample of her work is found on the Poetry Page.
In 2007, she became an active member of the Rooftop Poetry Club
http://www.buffalostate.edu/library/rooftop/members/miller.htm
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Live Reading
You can hear Denise's live reading at Urban Epiphany ~ Buffalo's Largest Live Poetry event and other venues, by clicking on the link to the left.
You can watch her reading at Urban Epiphany in 2008 on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QddUn1p0KzY
Schedule of Events
Featured Readings:
Denise will be featured at The Screening Room, Sheridan and Bailey, Amherst, NY, May 20th, 2009. She will be debuting her new book, Force Beyond Lace, published by Gary Earl Ross of The Writer's Den. http://www.angelfire.com/journal/garyearlross/
She will also be featured at the Stop Look and Listen Series, at the Impact Artist Gallery, 2495 Main Street, Suite 545, Buffalo, NY on Saturday, June 20, 2009
The Infringement Festival is set to run July 23rd thru Aug 2nd. Denise will be running a reading series at the festival this year entitled : The Creative Well: Well Spoken, featuring herself and other members of the Buffalo Writers Group.
Denise is a regular open reader at The Screening Room on the third Wednesday at 7:30 pm, and pops in at many other Buffalo, NY area readings.
Past Special Events:
Denise appeared on October 13, 2007 at the Trees of Surprise Poetry Anthology Debut Party at Karpele's Manuscript Museum, 453 Porter Ave. Buffalo, NY 14201 from 4-6pm. The anthology was a charitable project who's sale continues to help to benefit the replanting of Buffalo's Trees after the carnage of the October Storm of 2006. You may buy your own copy of this lovely book filled with local talent and help support our trees at Talking Leaves Books in Buffalo and at Amazon.com.