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New Poem in Strange Horizons

Posted on November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 by Mary McMyne

My poem, “The Mother Searches for Her Own Story,” appears in this week’s issue of Strange Horizons.  This one is from the full-length poetry collection I’m working on, and I’m so honored to have it appear alongside a story by Rivqa Rafael and a poem by Ugonna-Ora Owoh. Check out the poetry podcast!

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“Der Froschkönig” and “The Frog Princess [Remix]” in Cimarron Review

Posted on May 16, 2017March 30, 2019 by Mary McMyne

I received my contributors’ copies of Cimarron Review in this afternoon’s mail. It’s an honor to have two poems from the full-length poetry manuscript I’m working on appear alongside work by Karen Skolfield, Sidney Wade, and Edmund White.  Highlights for me, in addition to work by the above-mentioned poets, included Katherine Kaufman’s prose poem, “The Foxes,” and Miriam Cohen’s wonderfully…

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Wolf Skin at Baltimore Composers Forum

Posted on November 21, 2016June 1, 2018 by Mary McMyne

My prose poem, “Wolf Skin,” had its musical debut this week at the Baltimore Composers Forum concert with the original score by composer Elizabeth Skola Davis.  Watch the video below to see the performance by Joseph Regan, tenor, and Tim McReynolds, piano! The lyrics originally appeared as a prose poem in the Los Angeles Review and as…

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Frostburg, Jackalope-Girl, and Rose Red Review

Posted on November 5, 2016March 8, 2018 by Mary McMyne

I’ve been remiss in not writing about my wonderful experience at Frostburg Indie Lit Festival in October, where I was invited to be part of a panel on Fairy Tales Reimagined by Sarah Ann Winn. I stayed with a fabulous group of writers at a beautiful cabin in the mountains outside town, where the view on my morning runs…

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The Gossamer Pleasures of Faerie Magazine

Posted on November 25, 2015May 22, 2017 by Mary McMyne

Last summer, I started editing poetry for Faerie Magazine, the lush quarterly edited by Carolyn Turgeon, which was just profiled in the Style section of the New York Times. If you haven’t heard about Faerie yet, you should check out this article, which examines the magazine’s “gossamer pleasures” and calls it “wonderfully curious and deeply weird.” I have to say, it’s been a delight to read all…

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Wolf Skin Wins 2015 Elgin Chapbook Award

Posted on September 22, 2015November 25, 2015 by Mary McMyne

I received news yesterday that my debut poetry chapbook, Wolf Skin, won the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2015 Elgin Chapbook Award! The award honors the best speculative poetry chapbook published in 2013-2014. I was honored to be nominated, and I’m just plain thrilled to win! I’ve been writing speculative poetry since I was a kid, and I’m amazed to have…

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New Review of Wolf Skin in American Book Review

Posted on June 22, 2015March 8, 2018 by Mary McMyne

I have been traveling on and off, since early May, so I only just got the chance to be amazed by this wonderful new review of Wolf Skin in the latest issue of American Book Review!  Huge thanks are in order to Saara Myrene Raappana for her insightful close  reading. Here’s an excerpt: Reaching beyond the simple retelling or recasting…

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Two Poems in Ninth Letter

Posted on June 21, 2015April 26, 2017 by Mary McMyne

The latest issue of Ninth Letter features two of my poems, “The Sleagh Maith: A Nocturne,” part of my series on folklorist Robert Kirk, and “Open Letter to the Frog Princess,” a poem retelling the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, The Frog King or Iron Heinrich, popularly known as The Princess and the Frog. Also in the issue…

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