Mary Szybist
Mary Szybist
Mary Szybist is an American poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
endlessly love poetry
Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.
chance poems spaces
Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
miracle doe can-do
There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.
believed consciousness devastated found heard missed outside poetry point reached turned unable
When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.