Maureen A. Sherbondy received a B.A. degree from Rutgers University. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including European Judaism, Calyx, Feminist Studies, 13th Moon, Cairn, Comstock Review, Crucible, The Roanoke Review and the Raleigh News & Observer. Her poems have won first place in: The Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize, The Lyricist Statewide Poetry Contest, and the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award from Kent State University. A short story was selected as a runner-up in the William Faulkner—William Wisdom Contest. Her fiction was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Main Street Rag published her first book, After the Fairy Tale, in 2007. Praying at Coffee Shops was published in 2008. Her short story collection, The Slow Vanishing, was released in 2009. Visit her at www.maureensherbondy.com.
Reviews
“Maureen A. Sherbondy‘s Weary Blues resonates and haunts like any lyrical piece you can’t get out of your head. This is a musical poet who compellingly voices the complex strains of love, grief and survival. Her intimate and darkly memorable poems echo with regret for what breaks our hearts and spirits, but these brave poems also reverberate with stubborn hope. In her latest collection she reminds us with graceful insights and unforgettable images of the restorative power of letting go, of honoring the present in order to move more strongly forward.”
Linda Lee Harper, Toward Desire and Kiss Kiss
"Maureen A. Sherbondy's poems are straightforward, honest, and
intuitive. While reading, one cannot help but pause and reflect upon life's many choices and consequences. Weary Blues, despite its melancholy, does not drag the reader into depression. Rather, each struggle has an underlying tone of salvation that leaves one wondering."
Alexis Czencz Belluzzi, Practicing Distance
"These private poems, made public, reveal our private selves. Whether we experience— experience rather than "read about"—a parent who must watch her son encounter the darkness of depression, or a girl accompanying her mother to a disappointing reading from a fortune teller, we intimately encounter not the author or even the characters, but ourselves, the self for which we thought there were no words. Sherbondy intercedes for us in the great battle we all face, the one far off, down deep, thereby showing us the victory we had begun to believe was too far off, too deep down, to achieve."
Paul Allen, Ground Forces
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