Ann-Marie Irwin's Fundraiser
A free press in not only newspapers, it is publishers too. We have a great need in our country right now to support the many voices that comprise our nation. Poetry is necessary.
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Poet Bio: Ann-Marie Madden Irwin, aka Ammi, has been learning to live in new skin and discovering the creativity in her mind did not die on the heels of chemo. She is known for saying she had ass cancer and when she does this live, everyone laughs. Because laughing in the face of genetic based cancer is the only way to cope. A 'generic' New Englander, Ammi has been living in Austin, Texas since 2003, where she completed an MFA in poetry at Texas State University where she studied with Cyrus Cassells, and created the graduate student reading series.
Before she and her bass-player husband headed to heat and no snow, Ammi worked as a coordinator for the Wm Joiner Ctr. Writers Workshop where she got to know and learn from some of the many great voices from Vietnam, Ireland, El Salvador, and Vermont. Writers who taught that the act of writing in an act of hope. From there she explored poetry through running her own series of workshops, Ammi Collaborative. She studied a the Fine Arts Work Center in P-Town, MA. . .and most recently The San Miguel Poetry Week. Her first book, At Odds with Circumstance was published through Createspace in 2012. Poems from this book include, "Chest Journal," "Warwick Review" (England), and others. The only thing that brings Ammi home to her self after much coping is poetry.
Your support gives me vital inspiration as I write for thirty days this month.
Tupelo Press provides the canvas, I bring my words, accompanied by other fine poets, writing thirty poems in thirty days, all ours to edit and submit as we wish. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 90 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks, all so Tupelo Press can keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise.
Every dollar gives me confidence to write more, and helps the press place more poems in gorgeous books. Help me to help this distinguished press. Give today!