The New Chickens

Marjorie Power grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. She graduated from San Francisco State College in 1969 and did graduate work in the Oral Interpretation of Literature at the University of Washington.

Her first full length collection was Living With It, Wampeter Press, 1983. Others include Seven Parts Woman, WordTech Editions, 2016 and Oncoming Halos, Kelsay Books, 2018. Her chapbooks are Birds On Discovery Island, Main Street Rag Publishing Company; Faith In The Color Turquoise, Pudding House; The Complete Tishku, Lone Willow Press; Refuses To Suffocate, Blue Lyra Press, and three others from small presses. Many journals and anthologies have used her work.

Marjorie lives with her husband, Max, in Rochester, New York, after many years in the Northwest and five in Colorado. They have two sons and six grandchildren, ages 14 - 22.

She can be found at www.marjoriepowerpoet.com.

Thanks to the editors of the following publications in which these poems were published, some in slightly different versions.

Artemis Journal, “Shallow Place” Blue Unicorn, “End of the Line”, “The Ferry” Blueline, “Ornamental” Caesura, “Interview Attire” Commonweal, “Coexistence”, “There and Here” The Comstock Review, “As the Sound of Rain Increases” Former People, “The Tour Guide Decides Not to Retire After All” Ginosko, “The Maple Watch”, “Poem without Color”, “Remembering Leonard Cirino”, “Street Scene in Early “March”, “Two Photos Arrive” The Hawai’i Review, “Season Tickets” Mudfish, “The Novel”, “The Story” The North Dakota Quarterly, “Apartment Windows in January” Selah, “Oil Portrait with Added Rust” Slant, “Before”, “Dream Exploration” Southern Poetry Review, “Although”, “Walk Signal” Sugar House Review, “As You Are Not Within” Turtle Island Quarterly, “The New Chickens” Whistling Shade, “At Least a Start” Willawaw Journal, “Delicately”, “It’s Pronounced Yah-hots”, “Poem with No Clouds”, “Puccini”, “To Larry”

“To An Atheist In a Spiritual Crisis” appeared in Odd Angles of Heaven, Harold Shaw Publishers, 1995.

“My Husband’s Birth Father” appeared in Show Us Your Papers, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2020

The poems in Section III appeared in a chapbook, Refuses to Suffocate, Blue Lyra Press, Delphi Series Vol. VII, 2019