Lynne Viti

I am a poet. Besides sitting at my desk and writing every day, I am active in many writing-adjacent activities: teaching workshops and short courses in poetry and memoir writing in community settings, including libraries, schools, senior living facilities and centers, and workshops.

I served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of my town, Westwood, Massachusetts, from 2023 - 2025.

Awards & Honors:
Appointed Inaugural Poet Laureate of Westwood, Massachusetts, two-year term, 2023- 2025
2025 Fish Publishing Poetry Prize, longlisted, “Crazy Legs at St. Rita’s Fair”
2025 Highland Park Poetry Poetry Challenge, Honorable mention, “Crazy Legs at St. Rita’s Fair”
2025 WOMR/Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest, Second Prize, “Little Skate at Ballston Beach”
2025 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, Honorable mention, "Flaneur”
2025 nominated for the Nina Riggs Award , “Road Trip to Ocean City”
2024 Hale Education Poem of the Year, "No Registration Required"
2023 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, Third Prize,“Westwood Lodge, the Summer Hotel”
2023, Miriam Chaikin Award for Poetry, Westbeth Artists Housing, New York, NY
2023 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, Third Prize, “Westwood Lodge, the Summer Hotel”
2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 Honorable Mentions, WOMR/Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest
2022 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, finalist
2021 Fish Publishing Poetry Contest, longlisted, "Meditations at Newcomb Hollow"
Mass. Center for the Book nominations for Baltimore Girls 2017, The Glamorganshire Bible,
Dancing at Lake Montebello 2020, The Walk to Cefalù 2022
2017, 2018 Pushcart Prize nominations
2017 Finalist, Concrete Wolf Louis Chapbook competition
2017 Finalist, Grey Borders Poetry Chapbook Contest
2016 Best of the Net Nomination
2015 Honorable Mention, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, for "Patissiere"
2014 Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest

Books:
The Walk to Cefalù, Cornerstone Press/Portage Poetry Series, 2022
Dancing at Lake Montebello: Poems, Apprentice House Press, 2020
Going Too Fast: Stories, Finishing Line, 2020
The Glamorganshire Bible, Finishing Line, 2018
Baltimore Girls, Finishing Line, 2017

Complete list of my recent publications

You can find my blog at: https://lynneviti.wordpress.com
Instagram: @lynne_viti