I have decided to experiment with my writing via this provocative marathon of one poem/day.

Bio:Catalina Florina Florescu was born in Romania. She earned her Bachelor's Degree from University of Bucharest, Romanian Literature (major), American Literature (minor). She holds a Master's Degree and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Purdue University. She teaches Introduction to Cultural Studies, 21st century Theater for Social Change, American Drama, Critical Writing, The Individual and Society, Romanticism & the Modern World, and Cinema at Pace University in New York City. Her books are in permanent libraries worldwide as well as at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. She is the author: Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces (literary criticism; narrative medicine; human body); Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood (mothers in literature & motion picture; feminist criticism); Inventing Me/Exerciţii de retrăit (memoir); and Plays. Her fifth book, Transnational Narratives of Englishes in Exile, will be published in 2017 and will be exhibited at the MLA convention. Her collection of two plays will be republished trilingually (Romanian; English; French). She delivered papers at Harvard, Sorbonne, New York University, etc. Her Scrabble Cancer Poster was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and at Boston University. She is also working on a collection of short/flash stories and poems, The Night I Burned My Origami Skin. For more info about her, visit her LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drflorescu/

Note on her 30/30 Project: She likes to experiment and provoke herself. Writing requires discipline. By drafting a poem a day, she has discovered a voice whose inflections she has not had time to explore in depth. She does it now and she learns how to listen to this somewhat new voice.

Caveat: I almost never post writing pieces w/o revising them several times. What you will read and encounter are undone sketches. Be, then, kind. I almost never expose myself in public. I do it here via words. I have accepted it b/c I like challenges, would like to help this indie press, and b/c I too "must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy" me, Ray Bradbury.