Mary Ann Samyn

Mary Ann Samyn is the author of six books of poetry, including My Life in Heaven, winner of the 2012 FIELD Prize, and the forthcoming Air, Light, Dust, Shadow, Distance, winner of the 2017 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize. She teaches in the MFA program at West Virginia University.

The thought that I should have some other life persists. And two dreams, very similar: someone […]

AN IDEAL SITUATION by Mary Ann Samyn

October 14, 2017 in Poetry tagged Mary Ann Samyn by Sarah Russell

For months, nothing need be written. Grief behaves how it wants. I take up embroidery. I […]

POETRY, OR ON STAYING PUT by Mary Ann Samyn

October 14, 2017 in Poetry tagged Mary Ann Samyn by Sarah Russell

It’s easy to dote on a son; a man is another story. I stop in the garden alcove […]

That’s One Way to Think of It by Mary Ann ...

January 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Mary Ann Samyn by Sarah Russell

The fear of not being wanted. And the shame of that fear. Children’s voices through the open […]

Shame by Mary Ann Samyn

January 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Mary Ann Samyn by Sarah Russell