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Diane DeCillis’ poetry collection, Strings Attached (Wayne State Univ. Press, 2014) has been honored as a Michigan Notable Book for 2015, won The 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry, and was a finalist for the Forward Indie Fab Book Award for poetry. Her poems have been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and Best American Poetry. Poems and essays have appeared in CALYX, Evansville Review, Minnesota Review, Nimrod International Journal, Connecticut Review, Gastronomica, Rattle and others. She’s currently working on a musical about a sugar addict.
Saudade is a Portuguese word that is almost undefinable in English. It refers to a deep emotional state of melancholic longing for a person or thing that is absent—the love that remains after someone is gone. It can also apply to something that has not … read more.
