News, Arts and Culture from WFIU Public Radio and WTIU Public Television
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

The Fire Gathering of Girls

Silhouette of a group of women who reach for the light in a dark forest with smoke
yuriy
/
Adobe Stock

Mary Dezember reads her poems " Wild Conviction Epigraph: Poem 1," and "Poetry within the story: Poems 2-4" from her novel, Wild Conviction.

“To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, …” — Walt Whitman, from the poem “Miracles”

Mary is an award-winning author of stories and poetry as portals to possibilities. While earning her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Indiana University, she directed the Runcible Spoon Poetry Series. Professor Emeritus of English at New Mexico Tech, Mary was awarded a writer’s residency at the Historic Santa Fe Foundation in 2025.

Her books include Earth-Marked Like You (Published by Sunstone Press), Still Howling (CreateSpace Independent Publishing), and Wild Conviction, (Brilliant Moon Press).

The poems Mary reads on this edition of the Poets Weave are from her novel, Wild Conviction. Gold Winner of the 2024 Human Relations Indie Book Awards, Historical Realistic Fiction.