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Collection of Irish American culture in poetry. From Irish Tea to dancing and rustic family life, Catholic guilt and tradition, fellowship in community. Poetry celebrating one family over a forty-year time span.

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In Legs All Shining Down Mary Lou Mahoney revels in the specifics of an Irish girlhood deeply felt and keenly remembered. These poems have a ring of authority in their anecdotes, their settings, their diction: I dig my rosaries out of my pocket/touch my forehead/In the name of the father/my aching belly/And of the Son/my left shoulder/And of the Holy/right shoulder/Ghost/Palms together/Amen. Funny, serious (or both at once), irreverent, wise--these beautifully-crafted poems make my heart rejoice. Grey Held author of WORKaDAY (FutureCycle Press, 2019)

In Legs All Shining Down Mary Lou Mahoney revels in the specifics of an Irish girlhood deeply felt and keenly remembered. These poems have a ring of authority in their anecdotes, their settings, their diction: I dig my rosaries out of my pocket/touch my forehead/In the name of the father/my aching belly/And of the Son/my left shoulder/And of the Holy/right shoulder/Ghost/Palms together/Amen. Funny, serious (or both at once), irreverent, wise--these beautifully-crafted poems make my heart rejoice. Grey Held author of WORKaDAY (FutureCycle Press, 2019)

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Mary Lou Maloney is a poet and former lobbyist for the Arc of Massachusetts, an organization that represents people who are developmentally delayed. She received her undergraduate degree from Regis College and her Master's Degree from Boston College. Maloney is a member of Poemworks: The Workshop for Publishing Poets, founded by her poetry teacher and mentor, Barbara Helfgott Hyett. Maloney's poems can be found in Third Wednesday. Lily Poetry Review, Constellations, Lit Break and other journals. Eileen Cleary is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books. She holds two MFA's in poetry. Recent work is published in The Sugar House Review, JAMA, West Texas Literary Review and Solstice: A Magazine for Diverse Voices, among others. Her work is included in a Rainworks poetry installation in Newton, Massachusetts. Cleary's debut full-length collection 'Child Ward of the Commonwealth' was published by Main Street Rag Press in June 2019. Her second, ' 2 A.M. With Keats' is slated for Fall 2020 by Nixes Mate. Martha McCollough is a writer and video artist living in Chelsea, Massachusetts. She has an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Baffler, Cream City Review, Crab Creek Review, and Salamander, among others. Her video poems have appeared in Triquarterly, Datableed, and Atticus Review.

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