Description: Write from Abundance
Marie Kane ’s poetry has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review , U. S. 1 Worksheets, Wordgathering, The Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Delaware Valley Poets Anthology, The Poet’s Touchstone, The Meadowland Review , the Boston Literary Magazine, Adanna Journal , and many others. Her work has been anthologized, most notably in Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets, (Texture Press, 2013, 2019) edited by Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin, in The Liberal Med
Marie Kane was named Bucks County Poet Laureate in 2006; her work was judged by renown poets George Drew and Meg Kearney. Her poetry has won prizes in other competitions, including. the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, Inglis House, and the Robert Frasier contest. She has read her work at various locations, including Musehouse, the Manayunk Arts Center, and the International House, all in Philadelphia, the Princeton NJ Library, Bucks County Community College, the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA, and a
Diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in 1991, she is now living with secondary progressive MS. She has published three poetry collections: a chapbook, Survivors in the Garden (Big Table Publishing, 2012), which largely concerns living with multiple sclerosis, a full-length collection, Beauty, You Drive a Hard Bargain (Kelsay Books, 2017), and another chapbook, Persephone’s Truth (2018), which includes art by her husband, Stephen Millner.