Poets Laureate of Lawrence with Featured Guest Mary Sexson

Mary Sexson is the author of the newly released Her Addiction, An Empty Place at the Table (Finishing Line Press). Her other books include the award-winning 103 in the Light, Selected Poems 1996-2000 (Restoration Press), and she is co-author of Company of Women, New and Selected Poems (Chatter House Press). She also co-authored the upcoming book Marriage Maps and Driven Destinies, to be published by Chatter House Press in the Fall of 2023.  Sexson’s poetry has appeared in Tipton Poetry Journal, Flying Island, New Verse News, The Indianapolis Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, and Of Rust and Glass, among others. Sexson’s poetry has been a part of several public poetry projects, including Shared Spaces/Shared Voices, two Arts Kaleidoscope projects that collaborated with Gallery 308 in Muncie, Indiana, and two Spirit and Place projects with the Indiana Writers Center. Sexson’s work is part of the Inverse Poetry Archives for Hoosier Poets. One of her poems is in the Polaris Trilogy, part of the Lunar Codex Project heading for the moon in 2024. Find her at masexson.wordpress.com, and at Poetry Sisters on Facebook.

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