Mary Jane Barenbaum

Love, Memories, Reflections Mary Jane Barenbaum

Mary Jane Barenbaum has led a life that emerges powerfully from the heart of America, and her poetry reflects a classic view of what it means to be an American thinker and poet. Her tales of American sensitivity and values are couched in a poetic form that gives emphasis to the feelings they evoke rather than an intellectual or political analysis. Easily accessible in form and meaning, Mary Jane's poetry leaves the reader thinking "yes, I've been there, I know what she is saying, I've felt what she is feeling." She has been writing poetry for over 20 years. This current volume contains poems written in the last seven years since publication of her first book, Seasons of My Life. She has been published in the Chicago journal based East on Central Poetry and Arts, and in in The Daily Herald, also located in Chicago. She has been published in numerous anthologies and belongs to The Poets Corner Writer's Group in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She is also a co-host of An Evening of Poetry, a monthly event staged at The Hub on Canal, an Art Gallery of renown in Central Florida.