Poems

Marilyn had her first poem published in 1980. Most recently she has been published in Kakalak, Kaleidoscope, The Healing Muse, Earth’s Daughters, Speckled Trout Review, Wordgathering, as well as several anthologies and other publications. She has read her poetry at Western Carolina University’s Literary Festival, the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival, Malaprop’s Bookstore, local community colleges, libraries, and other venues. You are invited to read or listen to some of Marilyn’s work.

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I Still Sing Your Lullabies:
A mother’s love & loss

Consider the Little Girls

What I Missed

I Have Lost My Three Daughters

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Long Field Hollow

Finer Things

Praise Song

October Full Moon

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As For Life:
A memoir in poetry exploring the isolation & loss of chronic illness

It Hurts

The Bucket List

No Technological Devices Will Assist

As For Life

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Some Shimmer of You

Stolen Children

The Garden

Some Shimmer of You

Books

Marilyn’s other published works approach changes in life, health and family, with the need to keep moving forward. Discover for yourself, the vivid accounts and informative perspectives portrayed in her books.

About

Get to know more about Marilyn. Learn more about her background, aspirations, accomplishments and quest to live a life full of meaning.

Beneath the powerful narrative, her poems simmer with longing and the universal experience of loss and trying to make sense of loss. These poems will call you back to them again and again with flashes of recognition of our shared struggles with love, loss, and longing.

– Malaika King Albrecht, founding editor of Redheaded Stepchild Magazine, author