Michelle Cameron, IMA’s VP and Creative Director, published her first volume of poetry this month with the release of In the Shadow of the Globe (The Lit Pot Poetry Series, $17.50, paperback).
In the Shadow of the Globe is actually a historical narrative written in verse and told from the point of view of both major and minor figures working in and around The Globe Theatre in London at the time of William Shakespeare. From the voices of characters you will recognize – such as Anne Hathaway and the bard, himself – and characters you will not, Ms. Cameron weaves the world of Elizabethean theatre in vivid and personal detail.
The work has been honored by critical notice, and was named The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s “Winter Book Selection” by the company’s acclaimed artistic director, Bonnie J. Monte.
In a blurb that will appear on the book’s back cover, Ms. Monte raves:
"In the Shadow of the Globe is an astonishing surprise. Michelle Cameron has conjured a world and spun a poetic tale that not only honors and exalts Shakespeare and his universe but brings it to vivid, visceral, and heartbreaking life. It is a unique and breathtaking work of art inspired by the man and the theatre that defined humanity in its totality."
Copies of the book are available direct from the publisher, and from Michelle's personal Web site, as well as on amazon.com.
Michelle has worked at IMA for three years, and is responsible for the design and content of many of our most noteworthy Web sites. Her poetry has appeared in The Paterson Literary Review, Literary Potpourri, Ink Pot, Midnight Mind, Lilith, Lips, Uno, Riding the Meridian, 2River View, Samsara Quarterly, Stirring, Electica, AtomicPetals, The Paumanok Review, and flashquake, among others. Her poems have been selected as Editor’s Choice in the 2002 Allen Ginsberg Contest, and as Best of the Stirring Year Three.
Michelle lives in Chatham, NJ, with her husband and two sons.
