About Mary Austin Speaker and New Orleans Review

Today's poem is "Ascent"

from New Orleans Review

Mary Austin Speaker is co-founder of the Triptych Readings poetry series in New York City, which pairs emerging and established writers. Her work has received awards from Seattle Review, Diner, Lumina, Iowa Review, and the Academy of American Poets, and has recently appeared in Boston Review, H_NGM_N, and elsewhere. She is the author of two chapbooks—In the End There Were Thousands of Cowboys and Abandoning the Firmament, and she currently works as an art director for Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Other poems on the web by Mary Austin Speaker:
Three poems
Two poems
"Ode to the Impossible Machine"
"The Leftovers"
"In the End There Were Thousands of Cowboys"
"The Taxidermist Sings Songs of Love"
Mary Austin Speaker's Website.
About New Orleans Review:

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Poetry Editor: Mark Yakich

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July 25, 2009: "Love After Lovely Leaves" by Andrew McCarron
July 24, 2009: "Then From Our Green Branch" by Oni Buchanan
October 14, 2008: "Nothing to It" by Chris Forhan
May 5, 2008: "Obey Gravity" by Cynthia Arrieu-King & Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
May 1, 2008: "In Support of Corporate Farms" by Cody Lumpkin
April 28, 2008: "Preemptive Elegy" by Paul Guest
January 3, 2008: "'King,' 'Queen,' etc." by Alison Powell
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August 27, 2005: "I Lived in the Forest" by Emmy Hunter
August 25, 2005: "from Crossed, Cross, Crossing" Esther Lee
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August 19, 2004: "Gacela of Animal Wisdom" by J. P. Dancing Bear
August 18, 2004: "Even So" by Susanne Kort
August 17, 2004: "His Dossier from Babel" by Andrew Miller
August 14, 2004: "Daedalus" by Hailey Leithauser
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