About
Margaret McCarthy’s poetry collection NOTEBOOKS FROM MYSTERY SCHOOL (Finishing Line Press, 2015) was a New Women’s Voices Award finalist.
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Celtic myth and spirituality are a continual source of inspiration for her work.
www.margaretmccarthy.com
Her poems have appeared in: The Pagan Muse: Poems of Ritual and Inspiration, Working Papers in Irish Studies, Cyphers Magazine (Ireland), The Albero Project (Italy) Poetry New Zealand, Gargoyle Magazine, HIV HERE AND NOW ON-LINE POETRY PROJECT, Braided Way Magazine, Home Planet News, Shaking Like A Mountain: On line Literature about Contemporary Music, California State Poetry Society Quarterly and Poets and Peace International.
Her heightened language plays and monologues has been performed in programs at La Mama Theatre, Poetic Theatre Productions, NYC, The English Speaking Union of New York, The Hudson Valley Writers Association, and Irish American Writers and Artists (IAW&A) monthly salons at The Cell Theatre, NYC.
McCarthy works as a professional photographer in New York City; her photographs have been widely exhibited. www.margaretmccarthy.com
She publishes a web broadside, A VISION AND A VERSE, www.avisionandaverse.com
combining her imagery and poetry.
Featured Work
NOTEBOOKS FROM MYSTERY SCHOOL
A coming of age journey told through poems; a gem-like collection that brings us from shadow to light, recognizing nature as our greatest classroom.
"Mesmerizing. Margaret McCarthy's poems leap off the page and hold us close, whispering secrets; then suddenly letting us go-- knowing this-- we are changed forever. Her work is nothing less than dazzling."
- Jamie Callan, author of Ooh La La!, Bonjour, Happiness! and French Women Don’t Sleep Alone
” McCarthy’s photographic eye captures the remarkable beauty and resilience that carry us through the sorrows and mysteries of our days."
-Michele Wolf, author of Immersion and Conversations During Sleep
"With the eye of a feminist, she asks what if, instead, it had been Icarus's sister? Would she know how far to go? In her first collection, NOTEBOOKS FROM MYSTERY SCHOOL, McCarthy shows us that yes, she knows."
- Susana H. Case, author of 4 Rms w Vu
"Margaret McCarthy’s poems are steeped in visions--part Shirley Jackson, part Rumi. When she sails off in search of “the ache buried in the heart of everything” you yearn to follow into the labyrinthine mystic depths of these luxurious poems. "
– Richard Peabody, editor, Gargoyle Magazine
