
Linda Buskey LeBlanc, Poet/Author
Barnstable/Yarmouth, Massachusetts Area

Linda Buskey LeBlanc, Poet/Author
Barnstable/Yarmouth, Massachusetts Area
*See my profile for past and present experience.
*Goals include completing two more volumes of poetry--one with Hawaii related poems and one with poems based on African issues.
*Another goal in a related area is to teach English as a second language after completing the TEFL course this year. I would like to work with adults in the corporate world who need English to succeed. Their first language doesn't matter.
* Strong communication skills including written, oral, interpersonal communication.
* Organizational, planning and editing skills with attention to detail.
* Experience in curriculum development
* Insight and intuitive skills.
* A photographic eye in writing, page design, and with a camera including 15 years in graphic arts work on school yearbooks and newspapers.
* A lyrical ear.
* Extensive travel experience throughout the world, skill in travel planning.
(Writing and Editing industry)
January 1999 — Present (10 years 11 months)
* Recently released poetry book.
* Working on two new poetry books.
* Readings at poetry venues and festivals
* Editing poetry and writing of all kinds including other literature and academic writing, as well as travel, business and professional writing.
* 1999-Present Writing Education: Vermont College Post-Graduate Writers' Workshop, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Workshops, University of Mass.-William Joiner Center Writers' Workshops, Santa Barbara Writers' Conference Workshops, Cape Cod Writers' Center Workshops, Virginia Piper-Arizona State Writers' Workshop, and others.
MA , English Literature, American Literature, Biology
Poetry, writing, reading, photography, travel for networking, relaxation, adventure and people are my passions, along with film, theater, museums, history, coffee shops, dining, good wines, mountains, the ocean, cities, college and professional sports, the diversity that is life.
New England Poetry Club, Cape Cod Writers' Center, Concord Poetry Center, National League of American Pen Women
* Selected as one of three first book authors to read at the Jeff Male Memorial Book Reading at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, the William Joiner Center Workshop in June 2008.
* Interviewed on "Books and the World" Cape Cod Cable Ch.17 on September 26,2008
* "On Trains: Poems" by Linda Buskey LeBlanc was one of 12 books by Cape Cod authors featured in the Book Section of the Sunday Cape Cod Times, 11/16/08