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"In Molly Rice's Forever Eighty-Eights there are ""no crystal stairs"" in her southern mill hill childhood. Yet, the poet pushes onward following an urgent pulse, while unflinchingly calling forth ghosts, wounds, and secrets of the past. She bids them to come out of their hiding places, while she battles both hardships and heartbreaks. In this work, Molly reckons, but she also fathoms, beauty and pays homage by uplifting people, places, and moments deeply rooted in North Carolina."

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"In Molly Rice's Forever Eighty-Eights there are ""no crystal stairs"" in her southern mill hill childhood. Yet, the poet pushes onward following an urgent pulse, while unflinchingly calling forth ghosts, wounds, and secrets of the past. She bids them to come out of their hiding places, while she battles both hardships and heartbreaks. In this work, Molly reckons, but she also fathoms, beauty and pays homage by uplifting people, places, and moments deeply rooted in North Carolina. With her forging she creates a throughway--each poem a stair to ""reach landings and turn corners."" Rice ultimately casts her own light and in the glow we see her heart's imprint on every page, which makes Forever Eighty-Eights a gift, a well-crafted offering resonating with a poet's hard-won love. -Glenis Redmond, author of The Listening Skin"

In Molly Rice's Forever Eighty-Eights there are no crystal stairs in her southern mill hill childhood. Yet, the poet pushes onward following an urgent pulse, while unflinchingly calling forth ghosts, wounds, and secrets of the past. She bids them to come out of their hiding places, while she battles both hardships and heartbreaks. In this work, Molly reckons, but she also fathoms, beauty and pays homage by uplifting people, places, and moments deeply rooted in North Carolina. With her forging she creates a throughway--each poem a stair to reach landings and turn corners. Rice ultimately casts her own light and in the glow we see her heart's imprint on every page, which makes Forever Eighty-Eights a gift, a well-crafted offering resonating with a poet's hard-won love. -Glenis Redmond, author of The Listening Skin

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Molly Rice has held several residencies teaching poetry, storytelling, theatre, film, and English as a Second Language in hundreds of schools, colleges, and organizations in North Carolina, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Russia, and Hungary. She has taught for seventeen years at St. Stephens High School where she is director of the Tractor Shed Theatre. She is an award-winning theatre educator and her theatre program's civic engagement work with those who live on the margin has earned much praise. She has been published in various webzines and magazines including Fortnight Magazine, The Stinging Fly, Iodine Poetry Journal, and Bloodshot: Journal of Contemporary Culture. She was a contributor to a major anthology of poetry and art entitled, A Conversation Piece: Poetry & Art. She was published in Voices and Vision: A Collection of Writings By and About Empowered Women. Her chapbook Mill Hill was published by Finishing Line Press, Kentucky, in 2012. She resides with her husband and son, Adrian & Micah, in Hickory, North Carolina.

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