Minding the Spectrum's Business (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781938853814)

Irene Mitchell taught English and Writing for many years in New York. She is the author of two previous collections, A Study of Extremes in Six Suites (Cherry Grove Collections, 2012) and Sea Wind on the White Pillow (Axes Mundi Press, 2009). Formerly poetry editor of Hudson River Art Journal in New York, Mitchell serves as poetry contest juror and ad hoc facilitator of poetry workshops. She is also known for her collaborations with visual artists and composers. Several of Mitchell's poems are "broadsides," poems combined with art by the Italian artist Daniela Bertol in a series entitled Seduction, displayed at art exhibitions A select group of her poems, published by Common Treasury, was set to music for piano and mezzo-soprano by composer Dallas Cline, in an art song cycle, Past All Doors, which had its recorded concert debut in Stuyvesant, New York. Mezzo-soprano Marion Hunter also set to music some of Mitchell's poems, calling them "concrete, unsentimental, and full of surprising, pregnant connections, some of which may be your own as hers go soaring by."