LOIS MARIE HARROD
Lois Marie Harrod has won many awards for her poetry, including three fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and seven Pushcart Prize nominations. She has published six full-length collections and three chapbooks, the most recent of which, Furniture, won the Grayson Books 2008 Poetry Chapbook Competition. Wisdom, humor and compassion run through all of her poems, but most noteworthy, in our view, are those in Spelling the World Backwards, which, as she says, is “both a story of a family coping with Alzheimer’s disease and a meditation on the nature of memory and poetry.” The strikingly original Furniture deserves to be read in its entirety, but the sample below will give you an idea of how Lois Marie Harrod imbues even inanimate objects with soul.
The third poem, “Her kisses were more stone than licorice,” is published here for the first time.
Irene Willis
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