Helen Marie Casey

Helen has two poems, "Remains," and "Then Lock the Door" in 34.1

This is a Louisiana Literature Press Publication.

Helen's ekphrastic poem, "My Lady Greensleeves", appears in this gorgeous publication of the Poetry Loft.

The PATERSON LITERARY REVIEW is available now.

This poem is one in a chapbook-sized series of family poems.

Helen was among the prize-winning poets to read in Worcester on September 22, 2013.

The Worcester Review celebrates the rich literary history of Central Massachusetts.

This issue of Adanna is dedicated to the spirit and work of poet and critic Adrienne Rich.

"Marche Funebre" appears in the current issue of ADANNA LITERARY JOURNAL: Women and War.

"About Heaven, My Father Was Always Unsure" is part of a series Helen is writing about her mother and father. It appears in the current issue (2013) of CADUCEUS.

A reading will occur at the Yale Bookstore on May 4th from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The CONNECTICUT REVIEW is one of New England's premier literary journals.

SPRUNG RHYTHM

Wind heaves through the oaks. Limbs on the lilac fret.
Pines lean, their canopies like sailors when waves crash,
the sails swing, and the man in the crow's nest considers
the depth of the long drop. "I never saw a naked woman,"
Gerard Manley Hopkins confessed. He said he wished he had.
What might that have done, his poems embers,
his God a bellows, the naked woman nothing but herself.

The MacGuffin Poet Hunt Winner, Winter 2010 SPRUNG RHYTHM

On the Day Your Leg Is Amputated


This is the season of compromise
wind contorts the trees
maples, oaks, and elms lift their limbs
they dance as if they are made for wind
grackles lift from the stubble,
cacophonous, a great black exit
as if they know what winds can do,
as if they know the meaning of the dance,
and you tell me, as I lean to you,
If it has to be, well then, it has to be,
the way you will tell me, years hence,
We all have to go up on the hill some time.

Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, Issue Eleven, 2009