What I Ask

Marjorie Moorhead writes from a river valley, surrounded by mountains and four season change, at the border of NH/VT. She found a voice in poetry after surviving AIDS in its early years, and becoming a mother. Much of her work addresses survival, environment, relationship, and appreciation of the everyday. She is author of Every Small Breeze (Kelsay Books 2023), the chapbooks Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (Finishing Line Press, 2019), Survival Part 2: Trees, Birds, Ocean, Bees (Duck Lake Books, 2020), and In My Locket (Finishing Line Press 2024). Her poems have appeared in journals including Amethyst Review, Tiny Seed Literary, Moist Poetry Journal, Bloodroot Literary, Sheila-Na-Gig, Porter House Review, Poeming Pigeon, Verse-Virtual, What Rough Beast, A River Sings, The Poet’s Touchstone, and others. Her poems are included in a large number of anthologies, including those that benefit environmental, women’s, Covid first-responder, and refugee aid organizations. She is proud to have a p