Marilyn McCabe
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Artist Statement: Talking & Listening to Plants
A-bunch-of-cells-in-the-world, a biological entity with all the attendant zaps and spurts and gurgles, a member of a species we (mistakenly?) call sapiens, from a long line of tree swingers, scavengers, wanderers: That is the starting perspective of much of my writing. My earliest memory is irises. It all follows from that.
Marilyn McCabe’s poetry has won awards through A Room of Her Own Foundation, The Word Works, Grayson Books, the NYS Council on the Arts, and Adirondack Center for Writing. Her books of poems include Perpetual Motion and Glass Factory, and chapbooks Rugged Means of Grace and Being Many Seeds. Poems and videopoetry have been published in print and online, and videopoems have appeared in festivals and galleries. She blogs about writing and reading at O Write: marilynonaroll.wordpress.com.