Margaret “Boogie” Salassi was born on February 2, 1944. She enrolled at the University of Arkansas’s MFA Program in 1975, specializing in poetry. After graduating, Salassi and her husband, legendary Arkansas writer Otto Salassi, settled in Fayetteville, where she held a variety of positions, including at the Fayetteville Public Library and the Walton College of Business. A close friend of Ellen Gilchrist and a contemporary of Frank Stanford, Salassi’s poems have appeared in outlets including Poetry in the Schools (1976). She currently lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
#1: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Margaret Salassi at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#2: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Margaret Salassi at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
#3: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Margaret Salassi at the Laurie Merlee Ceramics Studio; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
