Poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Many Mountains Moving, Poetry Kanto, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Zocalo Public Square, and elsewhere. Individual poems have also been included in the anthologies Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry by Sage Cohen (Writer's Digest Books) and When the Muse Calls: Poems for the Creative Life, edited by Kathryn Ridall (Pomegranate Press).


Following are some links to poems that appear online:

"The Gate"
at Zocalo Public Square

http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/08/01/the-gate/read/poems/

 

"One Day It Appeared On the Horizon and, After a While, It Was Here"
at Zocalo Public Square

http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/08/08/one-day-it-appeared-on-the-horizon-and-after-a-while-it-was-here/read/poems/

 

Nic Sebastian reads "The Poppy Field" at Whale Sound:
http://whalesound.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/the-poppy-field-by-mari-lesperance/

 

Three poems at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact
http://connotationpress.com/poetry/564-mari-lesperance-poetry

 

"Finding My Mother"
at Dave Jarecki.com (blog)
http://davejarecki.com/blog/tag/mari-lesperance/

 

"Happiness and Happenstance Share the Same Root"
at How a Poem Happens (blog)
http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2009/05/mari-lesperance.html

 

"The Bush Warbler Laments to the Woodcutter"
at Yomimono (online journal)
http://yomimonomagazine.blogspot.com/

 

Video

Mari L'Esperance reading "The Bush Warbler Laments to the Woodcutter" at the Sacramento Poetry Center on August 24, 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPCxVZSiFsI

 

 



 

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