Maryann Corbett

Maryann Corbett lives in Saint Paul and spent thirty-five years working for the Minnesota Legislature. She’s the author of five books of poetry, most recently In Code. Her work appears in journals on both sides of the Atlantic and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2018. New work appears in LIGHT, Mezzo Cammin, Modern Age, and the Raintown Review and is forthcoming in SWWIMM Every Day and THINK.

Poetry – Issue 29

Pavement

Asphalt, bituminous, concrete, cement—
the whole place is case-hardened, carapaced.
The air shimmers with heat; tree roots can’t breathe. . .

Teach Ecotone

•Nonstandard Sonnets

I enjoy Jenna Le’s sonnet “Byerly’s — Fine Foods — 24 Hours” not only because I know the grocery store she writes about, but because the poem breaks out of the standard sonnet pattern in two directions at once.

Teach Ecotone – Issue 28

•Love Begets Love

A series of poetry-writing prompts, based on poems in the Love Issue

Poetry – Issue 28

Maryann Corbett

Pavement

•Nonstandard Sonnets

•Love Begets Love

•Postlude for Four Hands at the Great Organ

•Granite Countertop

How Does A Smokestack Mean

What They Told Me

Teardown