Mary A. Koncel has published two books of prose poetry—(Quale Press) and You Can Tell the Horse Anything (Tupelo Press). She was a recipient of a poetry fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a finalist for the Poetry Society of Americas Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Denver Review, Barrow Street, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, and No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 25 American Poets. She lives in Worthington, Massachusetts with her husband and many animals.

Books by Mary A. Koncel:

Other poems on the web by Mary A. Koncel:
"When the Babies Read The Book of the Dead"
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Psalm"
"After the Weather"
Four poems

About The Last Blonde:

"The Last Blonde is another virtuoso collection from Mary A. Koncel. Like Closer to Day and You Can Tell the Horse Anything, this book gathers together a stunning combination of wit, invention, and pathos into a series of moments that you won't soon forget... Buy this book!—you won't regret it"
—Robert Alexander

"One cannot praise The Last Blonde enough. Here's the prose poem at its luminous best: deft, magical, funny, and wistful. Here is a generous, tender, radiant voice—in love with this world. A voice we trust. The poet writes, 'I remember my hunger. It begins with a rustle in the grass, just after dusk, between fragrance and mildew.' This is a one-of-a-kind collection—a book I'll return to again and again."
—Carol Potter