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Poetry Sunday: Lorna Knowles Blake

Lorna Knowles Blake reads her poem, "Bedtime Story."

Lorna Knowles Blake was born in Havana, Cuba and spent her childhood in Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela and Puerto Rico before coming to the United States. Her collection of poems, Permanent Address, won the Richard Snyder Memorial Award from Ashland University Press. Work from a new collection has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cortland ReviewLiterary ImaginationTampa Review and the Hudson Review. She serves on the editorial board at the journal Barrow Street and teaches creative writing at the Ladies Library in Brewster and at Castle Hill in Truro.