Background
Judith Pordon was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her mother Eleanor Haggett Pordon left an administrative and scientific career in chemistry to raise her children and was Judith"s principal muse.
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Education
Her high school career was completed in Concord, Massachusetts, a few blocks from Thoreau"s Walden Pond. She graduated from New College Of California in 1978.
Career
The central themes in her poetry are: the multicultural experience, celebration of various types of love, and contemporary social issues. Some of her more well known works include, How Will You Kiss?, Expiration, and At The Top Of The Food Chain But The Bottom Of The Lincolnshire. At age five her family moved from Georgia to suburban Boston. anthologies such as Many Mountains Moving (on Spirituality), Comrades Anthology, The Austin International Festival Anthology (both in 1999 and in 2001) and Uno have published her poems.
She has also been published in dozens of poetry e-zines including The 2River View, Agnieska"s Dowry, Stirring, Super Highway, Poetic Voices, Recursive Angel, ZeroZine, Facets Magazine, Southern Ocean Review, and Verse Libre.
In 2001 she was commissioned by Andrew Levin of Clemson University Music Department to write lyrics for an operatic composition, "Flourishing True" which was performed in the winter of 2002 at the 10th anniversary of the Brooks Center at Clemson University. She is listed in The Who"s Who of American Women, and The Who"s Who of the World. editor Since 2001 she has been the editor of an is a widely read website on anti-war poems, nature poetry, poems of loss and grieving, spiritual poetry, women poets, and poems in Spanish.
She has helped popularize many contemporary poets including David Shumate, Lola Haskins, Quentin Huff, Susan Dane, Bill Mohr, Scott Wiggerman, Gaston Ng, and Marilyn Krysl.
