Ann's third chapbook, published by Finishing Line Press  is now available.

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Praise for Drawing Outside the Lines

"The world, according to Ann McGovern, is a fog roamed by these crazy creatures who drink martinis, go on blind dates, mourn and tell jokes. Her poems are witty, wry, punchy, sexual and tough-minded. She has a fine-dashed tuned sense of the strange poetry of this life, its poignant, catastrophic and ribald comedy, and she makes tight, dark, fun poems out of it, featuring us, 'smiling/like we knew what was coming' "--Tony Hoagland, author of Sweet Ruin, Donkey Gospel, What Narcissism Means to Me.

"A passionate urgency runs through McGovern's poems like a river hurrying to its destination. Reaching port begins her wondrous journey into the interior of her life. These are magical poems not only of discovery but something more--a never-ending quest--and zest--for fulfilling mysteries."--Martin Tucker, author of While There is Time:Penultimate Poems, editor and publisher of Confrontation Magazine.

"Read these poems and know that Ann McGovern will never give up on love. In her elegant six-line poem "My Husband Died Six Months Ago" she is somewhere between earth and sky, always the seeker, always someplace, always sensuous, always in the flow of life."--Myra Shapiro, author of I'll See You Thursday; Four Sublets: Becoming a Poet in New York.

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Ann McGovern

30 East 62nd Street

New York, NY 10065