The Poet and the Poem
2024-25 Series

Featured Maria Terrone

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Maria Terrone was recently featured on the Museum of Modern Art's Instagram page, where she read her poem titled "In the Sculpture Garden" in that museum setting. She is the author of four full-length poetry collections: No Known Coordinates, recently published by The Word Works; Eye to Eye (Bordighera Press); A Secret Room in Fall, winner of the McGovern Prize (Ashland Poetry Press); The Bodies We Were Loaned (The Word Works); and two chapbooks: American Gothic, Take 2 and Life, Death & Cash. She is also author of At Home in the New World (Bordighera Press, 2018), creative nonfiction essays. Her poetry, which has been published in French and Farsi, has appeared in such media as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily, and read on National Public Radio. Her first-place awards include the Elinor Benedict Prize in Poetry, the Allen Tate Memorial Award, and the Mathiasen Award from a literary journal at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Her poems have also appeared in more than 30 anthologies from publishers including Alfred A. Knopf, The Feminist Press, and Beacon Press. In 2015, she became poetry editor of the scholarly and creative journal Italian Americana. As a long-time contributor to The Hudson Review, she participates in its Writers in the Schools program. A native New Yorker, she lives with her husband in Jackson Heights, Queens. Please visit mariaterrone.com.

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