Maria’s Poetry

Profiles in Poetics, Interview with Women’s Quarterly Conversation

My interview with Jillian Mukavetz for Women’s Quarterly Conversation can be found HERE

The Blue Whale of Madness cinepoem

In The Blue Whale of Madness the Mermaid embraces the round, alluring, hair like dark water, scales glittering like a lure, archetype, while undercutting the romance with danger (“you’ll follow me… feel the crack of your bones”). The mythic seduction here is not passive but weaponized, binding beauty to power and power to risk. This…

Analysis of Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

The Sacrament of the Beans

Under my grandma’s collectionof salt-and-pepper shakers

“Pentimento”-Magdalena Magazine

I am honored to be included in Michelle Magdalena’s Magazine, Magdalena which features my poems, “The Swallows of America,” and “Pentimento.”

Psychogeographic Map Walking my Dog to the Lake and Back

{{Charlottenburg, Berlin Germany}}

Kite Experiment in D Minor chosen for Best of the Web!

How did my body become electric?When did I become a house key tangled in the apple tree