Mary Meriam studied poetry at Columbia University (MFA) and Bennington College (BA). She works as an editor and publisher of lesbian poetry and art, and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas. Her most recent poetry collection is Pools of June (Exot Books, 2022). Her poems have appeared in Literary Imagination, Literary Matters, Poetry, Post Road, Prelude, Rattle, Subtropics, and The Poetry Review.

Other poems by Mary Meriam in Verse Daily:
November 29, 2018:   "Attack of the Fanatics" "Breathe, darling, breathe. I cannot..."
January 20, 2017:   "Who leaves me rootless" "You! all rich now? man at your cozy table..."

Other poems on the web by Mary Meriam:
"Ars Poetica"
"The Romance of Middle Age"
"Alone in Love"
"in memoriam"
"The stricken deer,"
"Country Western Singer"
Three poems
"Homemaker"
"Dinner"
"Who are you?"

Mary Meriam's Website.

About Pools of June:

"In this collection, filled with linguistic surprises and narrative leaps, Meriam upends the charm, ghazal, pantoum and sonnet to deliver poems of extraordinary originality. The erotic and a passionate connection to the natural world inform Meriam's agile, imaginative poems."
—Robin Becker

"The quality of freshness is not strained in Mary Meriam's work. Vision, hearing and form interact in these poems to convey a sense of beauty and purpose. It takes a deft touch to kindle a new wick. How far this poet's candle casts its light in a dark world."
—Alfred Corn

"The translucent materials of the natural world that frequent Meriam's ontological homes, owl-call her rich wisdom on the nature of life and existence to return to its queenly throne."
—Vi Khi Nao

"Possessed of a voice both starkly candid and utterly otherworldly, Mary Meriam inhabits the varied forms of these extraordinary poems as naturally as a tree wears its leaves."
—Mark McDonnell