“Anatomy of a Lighthouse” by Rita Anderson
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Rita Anderson Artist Statement:
Rita Anderson, a member of Poets & Writers, and The Academy of American Poets, has a MFA
Creative Writing and a MA Playwriting. Rita was poetry editor of the literary journal at
University of New Orleans, and her debut chapbook, The Entropy of Rocketman, is published
with Finishing Line Press (2016). Rita won the Houston Poetry Festival, the Gerreighty Prize,
the Robert F. Gibbons Poetry Award, the Cheyney Award, and an award from the Academy of
American Poets. Her poems have been published in Spoon River Poetry Review, EVENT
Magazine, Blue Heron Review, Ellipsis, The Longleaf Pine (Midwood Press), DLC Literary
Journal, Cahoodaloodaling, The Blueshift Journal, Blotterature, Words Work, Transcendence,
PHIction, Persona (50th Anniversary Edition), The Artful Mind, Di-Verse-City: An Austin Poetry
Anthology, Inflight Magazine (Paper Plane Pilots Publishing), The Stardust Gazette,
METAPHOR magazine, and Explorations (University of Alaska Press). Contact Rita at
www.rita-anderson.com
