Trailblazing
poet, author and media artist Heather Haley pushes boundaries by creatively
integrating disciplines, genres and media. Her writing appears in numerous
journals and anthologies including the Antigonish Review, Geist
and The Verse Map of Vancouver. Haley was an editor for the LA Weekly
and publisher of the Edgewise Cafe, one of Canada’s first electronic
literary magazines. She is the author of poetry collections Sideways, Three
Blocks West of Wonderland, and debut novel, The Town Slut’s Daughter.
Haley’s videopoems are official selections at dozens of international film
festivals and she’s toured Canada, the U.S. and Europe in support of two
critically acclaimed AURAL Heather CDs of spoken word song.
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FIRST CAME MARY
Before
hate. In spite of war. A few years back I was fortunate to visit the Yucatan,
now referred to as the Mayan Riviera. An anthropology buff, I was thrilled to
tour the ruins of Tulum and Chichen Itza . It was Christmas and I was
astonished by the degree of Maryolotry, the inspiration for this poem from my
collection Three Blocks West of
Wonderland.
It
bears repeating, especially…continue reading
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