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Name:  Marie Summers	

Location:  Excelsior Springs, MO

Age:  32

Pets:  a dog named Molly

Favorite Poet:  R. Browning, E. Bishop, S. Plath, and J. Keats

Favorite Poem:  Meeting at Night, Sonnet, Winter Trees

How long have you been writing poetry?: I began writing poetry around the age of twelve, and then it blossomed from there.

What/Who inspires you to write?: My inspiration changes with my mood. I can be inspired by love, the moon, stars, nature, other poetry, etc. Some of my best poems are written before bedtime when I reflect upon the day. They just take shape on their own.

Favorite Quote or Motto: "He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise." - Oscar Wilde

Writing Awards, Publications, and other Achievements:

Awards: "Mayor of Ashiya Award" in the The Forth Ashiya International Haiku Festa (Japan), Editor's Choice Haiku in Moonset Journal 1, Issue 2, 1st Place in Poetry For Thought's December 2005 Haiku Sequence Challenge, 1st Place in Skyline's Humane Ethic Poetry Competition 2004, 1st Place in The Shiki Monthly Free Format Kukai (December 2004), 2nd Place in The Shiki Monthly Free Format Kukai (March 2006), 3rd Place in The Shiki Monthly Free Format Kukai (January 2005), 3rd Place in The Shiki Monthly Free Format Kukai (June 2005), 3rd Place in The Shiki Monthly Free Format Kukai (August 2005), Poetry for Thought - 9 Poet of the Week Awards, 5 Poet of the Month Awards, and 7 Monthly Challenge Writing Awards, The Zone – 2 1st places and 1 2nd place in their quarterly contests, SP Quill Top 10 Winner - Winter 2006, Volume 9 and Spring 2006, Volume 10, 2 White Lotus Readers' Choice Awards - Spring/Summer, Volume 2, Haiku Scotland's March 2006: Issue 6's Star Poem, Skyline Literary Arts Community August 2004 Poetry Winner, Brownlow Challenge Contest (10/03) – 1st Place, Poetry in a Cup Spring 2004 Poetry Contest - 2nd Place, Poem Train (Fast Track Contests, #1, #2, and December 2005) – 1st Place, 2nd Place and 2 Honorable Mentions, Buzz Contest held by Kookamonga Square – 2 1st Places, League of Minnesota Poets - 2nd place in the 2004 haiku contest, Heather's Teddy Bear Org., Inc. (4th Annual Winter Wood Poetry Award) - 3rd Place, Poets’ Rountable of Arkansas (10/03) – Honorable Mention in the haiku category, Honorable Mention in the 2006 Washington Poets Assossication Francine Porad Haiku Award, Honorable Mention in the 2006 Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest, Honorable Mention in the 2007 Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Competition, Poetic License - Honorable Mention in the 2002 Autumn Falls poetry contest, The Annual Harold G. Henderson Awards 2005 for best unpublished haiku - Honorable Mention, and Sky Blue Waters Poetry Contest – 4 Awards of Merit.

Publications: Books - "Out of the Shadows," "Emerging from Twilight," "Before the Last Shadow Fades," "An Array of Triolet- The Poets Respond," "Chapbooks for Charity: The 911 Tragedy...the artists respond," "Autumn Falls" put together by Poetic License, "loose change" - the Haiku Society of America 2005 Member's Anthology, "fish in love" - the Haiku Society of America 2006 Member's Anthology, "inside the mirror" - The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2005, "big sky" - The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2006, The Fourth Ashiya International Haiku Festa - The Booklet of the Awarded Haiku, and WPA (Washington Poets Association) adult contest winners 2006 chapbook. Newspapers - Solares Hill and the Town & Country Leader Newspaper. Magazines - Acorn, The Aurorean, Bells Letters Magazine Issues 106, 107, 108, 109, 111 and 112, bottle rockets, Dasoku, Frogpond, Haiku Harvest (print edition), Haiku Ireland, Haiku Scotland, Hermitage, Heron's Nest, Hummingbird, Kokako, Liliput Review, Mayfly, Modern English Tanka (print edition), Modern Haiku, Moonset, Nisqually Delta Review, Paper Wasp, Poetic Hours, Presence, Skyline, SP Quill Quarterly Magazine Vols. 1 - 9, The Storyteller, The Unrorean, White Lotus, Wisteria, Write On!!, and Yellow Moon. E-Zines - 'eye', clouds peak, Chrysanthemum, Full Moon Magazine, Haiku Harvest, Lynx, Modern English Tanka, Poetic Reflections e-zine, Roadrunner Haiku Journal, Simply Haiku, tinywords, and World Haiku Review.

Future Publications - repeat appearances in Acorn, Frogpond, bottle rockets, Hummingbird, and Wisteria.

Personal Publications: "Ivy's Garden," "Ivy Reflections," "Ivy Moon," "Best of the Ivy Collection," "Waking the Daisies," and "Herbal Hodgepodge." I'm also put out a hard back book in limited print in 2006 entitled "Fields of Clover" containing haiku, senryu and haiga.

	Best of the Ivy Collection by Marie Summers Item# IMS023CRC $10.00 + shipping		Waking the Daisies by Marie Summers Item# WDGS02B $10.00 + shipping
	Herbal Hodgepodge by Marie Summers Item# HHMSA05 $10.00 + shipping

Additional Poet Information: Happily married with 2 children, chief editor of the SP Quill Quarterly and White Lotus Biannual Magazines, webmistress and graphics designer for Shadow Poetry, and the editor of Shadows Ink Publications.