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Mary-Sherman Willis

Rappahannock County, Virginia

Mary-Sherman Willis earned an MA science writing from the University of Maryland, and an MFA in Poetry from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Her poems and reviews have appeared in the New RepublicThe Plum Review, the Hudson Review, the Iowa ReviewShenandoahArchipelago.org and Poet LoreBeltway, Gargoyle and the Southern Poetry Review. Her poetry has been published in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry." She lives in Virginia.

Column 168

The Laughter of Women