Sample Poems

"Mary Crow's poetry has a singular, austere form which lends her poems great clarity of vision and depth of emotion. Reviews have described her verse as extended haiku, where the language expresses a sentiment which haunts the reader long after the poem is read and the book closed."

—Michael Henry

"Mary Crow's search is unflinching—her eye sees 'lobotomized' culture 'sucked into' American TV serial romances."

—Charlotte Mendel

"Mary Crow's spare style lends authenticity to the journey we are asked to share and to the speaker's reliability as a reporter. What we get is an exotic realism that is all lean muscle and tension in a landscape of self-discovery."

—B.J. McGrath

• A Public Space
• American Poetry Review
• Beloit Poetry Journal
• Denver Quarterly
• Field
• Freshwater Review
• Hotel Amerika
• The Massachusetts Review
• Nimrod
• North American Review
• Poetry East
• Prairie Schooner
• Ploughshares
• Verse
• Willow Springs