A conversation with Mary Simmons
Schedule
Sat Apr 25 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
1876 South Green Road, South Euclid, OH 44121 | South Euclid, OH
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Join us for a conversation with poet Mary Simmons, who will discuss her debut collection of poetry, "Mother, Daughter, Augur."Register: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/15182490
Simmons is a queer poet from Cleveland, Ohio. She earned her MFA from Bowling Green State University, where she also served as the managing editor for Mid-American Review. Her work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, ONE ART, trampset, Moon City Review, Variant Lit, The Shore, and elsewhere. She lives with her cat, Suki, at the edge of the woods.
Mary Simmons’s debut, "Mother, Daughter, Augur," is a world unto itself: a dark storybook realm, lush and full of eerie possibility, a place outside of time where women move in different forms and pass on warnings and wisdom. In the spirit of a Victorian naturalist’s collection, this book brings together found elements from nature, folklore, mythology, ballet, and oral tradition, crafting a strange, kaleidoscopic beauty and complicating inherited definitions of femininity. As these poems blur dichotomies—maiden and witch, mother and daughter, friend and lover—they reach for a new vision of womanhood beyond the bounds of roles and expectations, one that is mystical, ethereal, a little dangerous, and inherently queer. In the process, they tap into deep currents of yearning, grapple with corporeality, raise larger questions about love and what lasts, and find meaning in the uncanny and the macabre. In these pages are insects and omens, wolves and birds and weird apparitions, Odile and Ophelia, even a seventeenth-century professional poisoner. Original, atmospheric, and immersive, this is a work like no other: a tour through an enchanted forest, a darkness that’s illuminating.
📕 Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.
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