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Mary Beth Hines

Mary Beth Hines is the author of Winter at a Summer House (Kelsay, 2021). Her poems appear widely in literary journals, with new work forthcoming in RockPaperPoem and Whale Road Review. She also reviews book for Lightwood Magazine and other journals, with her most recent piece up at Cider Press Review. A member of the Boiler House Poets Collective, she participates in an annual Assets for Artists workshop residency at the Studios at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).

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By Mary Beth Hines

I Forget About the Billionaires

by Mary Beth Hines

Briefly, while I watch Lion King with my son
for the billionth time until I finally snap
it off. Enough.

Summer 2025

Pro Deo et Patria

by Mary Beth Hines

after Edvard Munch’s “The Sun,” 1910-13 After a week of rain, the sudden, sodden sun bursts through, spurs the wet winter world into color, and I recall Munch’s famous fractal flares, violet steeping cliff-sides, emerald mosses cropping up in the thought-dead ground and that little army of blue-black backs breaking the surface of the mustardy

Summer 2024

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