Helen Marie Casey

Selected Works

History
Portland’s Compromise: The Colored School 1867-1872
The author visits post-Civil War racial history in the school system in Portland, Oregon.
Poetry
Inconsiderate Madness
Casey’s poems are compelling. Throughout, Casey’s lyrical voice resonates.
--Vivian Shipley
Fragrance Upon His Lips
Deft. Real, honest, terse, sinewy, searing, passionate poems of emotional and sensual immediacy
--Brian Doyle

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Helen was one of four poets reading in Bermuda with the Early Americanists.

14th National Poet Hunt Winner

First Place:

Helen Marie Casey, "Sprung Rhythm"

Poet Hunt Judge: Thomas Lynch


Black Lawrence Press authors Jason Tandon, Helen Marie Casey, and Norman Waksler at the publications table of Dzanc/Black Lawrence Press at the Somerville News Writers Festival, November 14, 2009.s

Helen Marie Casey reads from "Inconsiderate Madness" at the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Award ceremonies.

Stranger than Fiction: Contemporary Creative Writers and Historical Inspiration, one of several panels of the Sixth Biennial conference of the Society of Early Americanists, consisted of : Salita Bryant, Randy Koch, Lynnell Edwards, and Helen Marie Casey