Selected Music
Dream of Change
Saf'lini Music, 2021
Cover art: details from "Migration"
by Perky Edgerton
Produced by Emily Bindiger, the collection showcases Marcia as a singer-songwriter, drawing on her experience co-writing and recording with some of her favorite musicians.
Little Noises
Saf'lini Music, 2004
Marcia's first album, produced by Margaret Dorn, brings together 25 veteran musicians who set her poems to music. The resulting double CD offers an extraordinary range of musical styles and interpretations.
Poetry
A Crown of Hornets
Four Way Books, 2019
Cover art: "Untitled" by Jennifer Kaufman
In 2006, a car accident left Marcia with a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Several years into recovery she found that doing creative work was helping her to heal. This book and its related media are the result of those years.
Available from fourwaybooks.com,
bookshop.org, and other sellers.
Selected Praise for A Crown of Hornets:
"As the title turns sonnets into hornets, so these stunning poems brilliantly capture (and I believe for the first time) the interior experience of life and language ‘going Babel’ after the catastrophe of brain trauma. Somehow, ‘she listens /to the damage that she’s so long occupied,’ giving us the precious gift of insight into a soul once stranded in a broken world, her poetry an act of reclamation."
—ELEANOR WILNER (Ploughshares)
"Without self-pity, these poems chart the course of a wounded brain coming to life from injury."
—GRACE CAVALIERI (excerpted from Washington Independent Review of Books)
Miracle with Roasted Hens
Spit, Bite Press, 2011
Marcia's first poetry book:
Miracle With Roasted Hens takes its title from a fourteenth-century legend connected with the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in northern Spain. The book's final section was inspired by Marcia's Camino walk in the fall of 2001. Years later, acclaimed poet and translator Laure-Anne Bosselaar translated six of the poems into French, giving the poems new life in a second language.