Millicent Borges Accardi

Millicent Borges Accardi^[1] is a Portuguese-American poet^[2] who lives in California. She has received literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Fulbright, CantoMundo,^[3] the California Arts Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Barbara Deming Foundation,^[4] and Formby Special Collections at Texas Tech University.

Accardi received degrees in English and literature from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), holds a master's in professional writing from the University of Southern California (USC).^{[citation needed]}

Her book, Through a Grainy Landscape, a collection of poetry based on contemporary Portuguese literature is with New Meridian Arts, 2021. Other poetry collections include QUarantine Highway, (FlowerSong Press), Only More So, (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), Injuring Eternity with World Nouveau^[5] She has a chapbook, Woman on a Shaky Bridge, with Finishing Line Press.^[6] Injuring Eternity and Quarantine Highway received Honorable Mentions at the Latino Book Awards.^{[citation needed]}

Her articles can be found at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and Another Chicago Magazine. Interview subjects have included Grammy Director Michael Greene; poets W.S. Merwin^[7] and Carl Dennis; writers Frank X. Gaspar, Sam Pereira,^[8] Jacinto Lucas Pires, Donna Freitas (Sex and the Soul), and Nuno Júdice;^[9] Paulette Rapp (daughter of The Bickersons writer), Stephen Rebello (Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho), playwright Bill Bozzone, CantoMundo founders, and Portuguese-American scholar Deolinda Adão.^[10]

Accardi's work has appeared in over 150 publications,^[11] including Nimrod, Tampa Review, New Letters and The Wallace Stevens Journal, as well as in Boomer Girls (Iowa Press) and The Experiment Will Not Be Bound: An Anthology, Peter Campion, ed. (Unbound 2023) anthologies. Artist residencies include Yaddo, Jentel, Vermont Studio, Fundación Valparaíso in Mojacar, Milkwood in Český Krumlov, CZ and Disquiet in Lisbon, Portugal.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012, Accardi started the "Kale Soup for the Soul" for the reading series featuring Portuguese-American writers. The first edition was in Chicago^[12][13] at the Chicago Cultural Center. Since then, "Kale Soup for the Soul" readings have featured over 25 different writers, in regional readings in cities such as San Francisco,^[14][15] Seattle,^[16] Iowa City, Providence, Rhode Island,^[17] Boston^[18] and San José^[19][20]—as part of a new wave of Portuguese-American Literature. In 2013, there were "Kale Soup for the Soul" readings at the Mass Poetry Festival in Salem, the Valente Library in Cambridge, and the Portuguese Consulate in Boston.^[21]

Poetry collections:

• Quarantine Highway (FlowerSong Press 2022)
• Through a Grainy Landscape (New Meridian Arts Press, 2021)
• Only More So (Salmon Poetry, 2016) ^[22]
• Injuring Eternity (Mischievous Muse Press, December, 2010)^[23]

Chapbooks:

• Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press, 2010)^[24]

• Author website
• Profile at Poetry Foundation

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• Woman on a Shaky Bridge - by Millicent Borges Accardi, Review by Robert Manaster, Rattle, June 5, 2010
• The Human Experience, Review by Georgia Ann Banks-Martin in Her Circle EZine, April, 2010
• Review in Onomotopoeia Magazine by Jara Jones, June 2010
• Review in Poets Quarterly by Joan Hana, Issue 4, winter 2010
• Review in Boston Literary Magazine Fall 2009
• Review in New York Journal of Books by David Cooper, Jan. 1, 2010
• To the Other Side and Back Again: Millicent Borges Accardi’s Woman on a Shaky Bridge, Review by Chris Crawford, June 2010
• Review of Injuring Eternity Gifts of Dawn, May 2011 Review by Linda Scott
• Review of Woman on a Shaky Bridge by Reinaldo Silva, Ph.D.Dept. Línguas e Culturas, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
• The Compulsive Reader, April 2011 by Sheri Fresonke Harper
• Blue Moon Northeast, June 2011 by Meg Harris
• New Mirage, July 2011 by Linda Benninghoff
• Review of Injuring Eternity in The Poetry Kit UK, by Lesley Burt, June 2011
• Portuguese-American Literature Bibliography