What I Ask

Marjorie Moorhead writes from a river valley, surrounded by mountains and four season change, at the border of NH/VT. She found a voice in poetry after surviving AIDS in its early years, and becoming a mother. Much of her work addresses survival, environment, relationship, and appreciation of the everyday.

She is author of Every Small Breeze (Kelsay Books 2023), the chapbooks Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (Finishing Line Press, 2019), Survival Part 2: Trees, Birds, Ocean, Bees (Duck Lake Books, 2020), and In My Locket (Finishing Line Press 2024). Her poems have appeared in journals including Amethyst Review, Tiny Seed Literary, Moist Poetry Journal, Bloodroot Literary, Sheila-Na-Gig, Porter House Review, Poeming Pigeon, Verse-Virtual, What Rough Beast, A River Sings, The Poet’s Touchstone, and others. Her poems are included in a large number of anthologies, including those that benefit environmental, women’s, Covid first-responder, and refugee aid organizations. She is proud to have a poem included in The Wonder of Small Things, Poems of Peace & Renewal (James Crews, ed. 2023). She has had poems nominated for Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net.

Marjorie’s local poetry group is 4^th Friday Poets, a small group that has been meeting twice a month for years. In summer of 2019 Marjorie enjoyed a workshop at Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown MA, during their poetry week, thanks to a tuition scholarship from Indolent Books. She has attended many readings and workshops online with some amazing and inspiring poets, thanks to zoom. Love of family, daily walks in each season, tai chi practice, and poetry community are the things that feed her.

Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (May 29, 2024)