Maria Terrone
Maria Terrone is a poet and essayist who has published in the nation’s most prestigious media (Poetry, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review), including more than 30 anthologies from publishers such as Knopf and Beacon Press. Her work has been described as “simultaneously sensuous and spiritual, earthy and intellectual” (Dana Gioia). Nicole Cooley cites her “stunning” poems “that bear witness” in “vivid, musical language.” Says Rachel Hadas: “Terrone’s lights and darks encompass fragility and toughness, trauma and wonder.”
Latest Release
No Known Coordinates
“In her stunning new collection, No Known Coordinates, Maria Terrone explores reversals —‘the world outside this window/like a photo’s negative.’ An urban street becomes a painting. A subway speeds from underground to an elevated track. A girl becomes a woman. A daughter cares for a mother. I love the way these poems bear witness to “the long, slow erasure” of so much in our lives. With vivid, musical language, Terrone takes us to ‘that last waiting room: /land of no known coordinates,’ a place of hope and transformation.”
In the Spotlight
New York’s renowned Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) featured Maria on Instagram reading her poem “In the Sculpture Garden” in that location. She also appeared in the MoMA online journal in a piece entitled “The Poetry of Presence.”
