{{short description|American poet}}
'''Michelle (Messina) Reale'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ja_uxjYAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Michelle Reale - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2016-07-26}}</ref> (January 31, Ambler, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American poet, academic and ethnographer.
Reale is a full professor<ref>{{Cite web |title=Faculty & Staff - Dr. Michelle A. Reale |url=https://www.arcadia.edu/faculty-and-staff/dr-michelle-a-reale/ |website=Arcadia University |access-date=2016-07-26 }}</ref> at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She uses poetic inquiry to present her research among African refugees in Sicily and her poetry is mainly concerned with Italian-American life, ethnic identity, histories, family dynamics and remembrance and forgetting. Among master's degrees in English and library and information science, she has an MFA in creative writing with a concentration in poetry. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
== Books == '''Poetry'''
*Season of Subtraction (Bordighera Press, 2019) *All These Things Were Real: Poems of Delirium Tremens (West Philly Press, 2017) *Birds of Sicily<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofsicily.com/dark-aviary-mark-spano-book-review-podcast-format-birds-sicily-may-27-2016-michelle-reale/|title=Book Review: "Birds of Sicily", Poems by Michelle Reale - Times of Sicily|date=2016-06-12|language=en-US|access-date=2016-07-26}}</ref> (Aldrich Press, 2016) *The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance: Elegies (Aldrich Press, 2014) *Natural Habitat (Burning River, 2011) *Like Lungfish Getting Through the Dry Season (Thunderclap Press, 2012) *If All They Had Were Their Bodies (Burning River, 2013) *This is Not a Situation in Which You Should Remain Calm (Cervena Barva Press, 2014)
'''Academic'''
* Mentoring and Managing Students in the Academic Library<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2013/08/mentoring-and-managing-students-academic-library|title=Mentoring and managing students in the academic library|last=RCHRISTOPHER|date=2013-08-01|access-date=2016-07-26}}</ref> (ALA Editions, 2012) * Becoming an Embedded Librarian <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11597|title=Becoming an Embedded Librarian: Making Connections in the Classroom—print/e-book Bundle - Books / Professional Development - Books for Academic Librarians - Bundles & Bulk Items - New Products - ALA Store|website=www.alastore.ala.org|access-date=2016-07-26}}</ref>(ALA Editions, 2015)
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==External links== * http://www.sempresiclia.wordpress.com Blog * http://www.michellmessinareale.com Official website
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