PoemAlley welcomes teacher and poet/poet advocate Christina M. Rau to Curley’s this
Tuesday, author of the chapbooks WakeBreatheMove (Finishing Line Press,
2015) and For The Girls, I (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). 
An energetic
presence in the greater public appreciation and pursuit of the craft, Christina
is the founder of the Long Island reading circuit, Poets In Nassau and is
editor of the Nassau Community College’s The Nassau Review (where she
also teaches English).
Christina is a
member of the Creative Writing Project and has overseen poetry workshops across
Long Island. As monthly guest-blogger for Poetry Has Value, she helps
demonstrate the practicality of how writers can track both the creative and
monetary worth of their efforts and where it can be placed accordingly. Her own work has graced
gallery walls in The Ekphrastic Poster Show and car magnets for The Living Poetry Project (Nicelle
Davis’ Yes Men-style program to make
poetry more prevalent in daily life via secreting bits of verse on slips of
paper into clothing in retail settings and other cultural guerrilla tactics). More of her work can be found on
Queen Mob’s Tea House and the Australasian
Association of Writing Program’s Meniscus online literary magazine.
A recipient of an MFA
in Creative Writing from Long Island University-Southampton and an MA in
English and Creative Writing from Hofstra, Christina maintains a dynamic online
presence through Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr and, of course, Facebook, while
also managing to post book reviews on Goodreads. Recent posts on her blog, “A
Life Of We” cover personal
appearances, live concerts and exercise—enthusiastically peppered with stills
and videos.
Check out everything else she does at www.christinamrau.com.
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