Available now - Marcia's new poetry collection

Miracle with Roasted Hens

Marcia Pelletiere

About the book:

“What I’d had to undergo/ had been undergone”: above all, these are poems of what comes after, of release from “the night [that] had declined to let me go”—something akin to the last movement of the Pastoral Symphony, when there is a quality to the air that only comes after storm. What follows the hard-won exodus from self-enclosure, unburdened of that “immense archive of discontent,” is lightness of spirit and touch, and, for the reader, such pleasure in poems whose candor, wise and playful intelligence, and taut lyricism convey an ease-of-being that is of all things most rare.

—Eleanor Wilner

some disturbance, some smudge

had traveled my friend's being so intensely

that it showed in her outermost layer,

had garbled her suddenly into random

charges, impulses, and pixels,

leaving only a haze where she had been,

a residue of panic, desire, exhaustion, and loneliness—

I could name all of its qualities—

but whatever had fashioned some of itself into my friend

had right then failed to be believably her,

and because what I am made and bound inside of is the same,

I understood that I would never know her.

-- From "My Friend in Herself"

WRITING BIO

Marcia's poetry collection, "Miracle with Roasted Hens," has just been released through Spit, Bite Press. She has received four Individual Writer's Grants from Poets & Writers, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has taught creative writing privately and with several NYC schools and arts organizations.

Selected Journals and Anthologies:

Ploughshares; Alaska Quarterly; Southern Poetry Review; Prairie Schooner; Painted Bride Quarterly; Calliope; Outsiders (Milkweed Anthology); Footwork: The Paterson Literary Review; Many Mountains Moving; The Marlboro Review; Barrow Street; Bucks County Review; Quarry West; Mediphors; Coastal Forest Review; Gulf Coast; Quarterly West.

Collaborations (with painter Donna Maria deCreeft:

P.S. 1 Museum, "China: June 4"

Blue Mountain Gallery, "Painters & Poets

Teaching Experience (Writing)

Private Instruction; Brooklyn Bound Writing Workshops (Co-director, Instructor); ESTA (Elders Share the Arts, Teaching Artist); Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Women (Instructor); La Guardia Community College (Adjunct Faculty)

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