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Poet Bio: Marie Chambers received an MFA in Poetry from the Professional Writing Seminars at Bennington College. Her work has appeared in The LA Review of Books, The Atlanta Review, Talking Writing, The Quotable, The Ilanot Review, Printer's Devil Review, Ironhorse Literary Review (finalist Photofinish Contest), the California Poetry Society (Honorable Mention Annual Contest), Sentinel Literary Quarterly (Highest Commendation short prose) and Bookwoman, a publication of the National Women's Book Association (third place memoir / creative non-fiction). She was the 2014 winner of the Tallahassee Writers Association annual prize for creative non- fiction and was a winner of the 2015 ARTlines2 Ekphrastic Poetry Contest for work inspired by a piece of art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (judged by Robert Pinsky.) Her collaboration with Paris-based visual artist Daniela Bershon was featured in the online magazine 7 x 7. Most recently she was recognized as a finalist for the Lascaux Poetry Prize.

Author Statement: I am very interested in finding new ways of catching images and harnessing them to meaning. A narrative driven by association or by sound. A narrative that carves space inside notions of time and place. And oh how memory writes on the present and how I cannot stop its incessant interruption and how I yearn to make peace with it while I move on into the future. But how to make peace with a future that seems bathed by fire, by war-making drones, by explosive devices hidden in back packs and noise noise noise and chatter chatter chatter and never enough time.

At 2:53 AM I wake up and wonder if the birds really will sing tomorrow morning. Perhaps I should not have given my mother's hat with the pink flowers to the Salvation Army last week. The money is in the bank from the sale of my parents house but what to do with my father's notes on The Iliad?

Nothing for all this but to write it down then strip it to the bone and fling it out into the world. Maybe it will be a poem.

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