Maureen Thorson is the author of Share the Wealth (Veliz Books, 2022), On Dreams (Bloof Books 2021), My Resignation (Shearsman 2014), and Applies to Oranges (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), as well as the chapbook Mayport, which won the Poetry Society of America's national chapbook fellowship for 2006. She lives in Falmouth, Maine.

Other poems by Maureen Thorson in Verse Daily:
November 11, 2014:   "So We Began to Kick the Tires" "This unit not for sale. This bicycle built for two...."

Books by Maureen Thorson:

Other poems on the web by Maureen Thorson:
"Time Traveler’s Haibun: 1989"
Three poems
"Meditation at Five Thirty"
Three poems
"In the Pink"
"A Personality Test"

Maureen Thorson's Website.

Maureen Thorson on Twitter.

About Share the Wealth:

"I'd call Maureen Thorson's Share the Wealth quietly captivating, if it didn't truthtell so insistently and open the mind with bright images that make familiarities like January, for example, more permanently real than they've ever been: 'And last year's flowerpots drift in the snowpack // burnt sugar dusk persistent non-roar / of the highway over the river /that uses the thick light like pomade.' Other moments skate by like Olympians, and you only recognize their power when they've left you behind, marveling, like this one tucked into an encounter with some skittish wild turkeys: 'This world is chockablock / with death and joy and hazard, / and it would be right for a woman alone / to be its scariest thing.' These poems comfort and discomfit, coaxing weirdness out of the familiar, deep emotion out of the natural world, acceptance out of tragedy. You'll find this book's unique perceptions—for a moment, for good—will locate themselves somewhere in you."
—Kathleen Ossip