Dear Friend,

Thanks for visiting my new website for poetry.

After 40 years successfully writing children's books I decided to take on a new challenge. And writing poetry for adults is challenging, frustrating -- and very satisfying.

I read poems every day. I write and rewrite many, many times. I try to find a poem in  everything I do, see or think.

My first chapbook: Bribing The Fortune Teller is in its third printing. My second chapbook, Insomnia's Shadows won first prize in Artella’s Poetry Contest. My third chapbook, Drawing outside the Lines is making the round of publishers.  Recently, I finished my first collection, a manuscript  of 60 poems, River of Glass. It’s circulating now to contests and publishers. I’ll keep you posted.

Excitedly,

Ann McGovern