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Name:  Lisa Adele Sargese

Location:  New Jersey

Age:  40

Pets:  4 cats: Bosie, Sebastian, Gabriel and Jacob

Favorite Poet:  Rumi

Favorite Poem:  Love Dogs

How long have you been writing poetry?: Since puberty.

What/Who inspires you to write?: The stirrings of the Divine within all aspects of nature.

Favorite Quote or Motto: "Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff..." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing Awards, Publications, and other Achievements: Writing Awards, Publications, and other Achievements: BA in Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude, Montclair State 2000; MTS in Theology, Drew University, 2003; MA in Counseling and Human Services, Montclair State University, 2006.

Additional Poet Information: Lisa is an Adjunct Professor of Religion at Montclair State, a DAILY blogger (http://theskinnyonline.blogspot.com) and certified hypnotist. Lisa's mission as a writer is to show how the act of philosophy drives us out of our everydayness and how the art of poetry illuminates what we see along the way.