Mary Ellen Redmond: “I write to stay sane, to understand and be understood. These poems are about my students. After 27 years of teaching, they populate my psyche. They ride with me on the way home from school, sometimes appear in my dreams, and are there in the morning when I wake.”
Mary Ellen Redmond: “I write poems to stay sane, saving thousands of dollars in therapy. I support this habit by teaching twelve-year-olds to read critically and write well, dot their i’s and cross their t’s. Along with two fat and happy cats, I live on Cape Cod, a glacial afterthought that juts into the Atlantic off the coast of Massachusetts.”