Poetry Month with Mary Morris and Mike Burwell

Mary Morris is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Lanterns in the Night Market (2025). Her poems are published in North American Review, Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and North American Review. Morris has received several awards, including the National Federation Press Women’s Book Prize, the Rita Dove Award, Wheelbarrow Book Prize (selected by Leila Chatti), and the New Mexico Book Award.

Mike Burwell’s poems have appeared in Abiko Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cloudbank, Ice-Floe, Pacific Review, Poems & Plays, and Sin Fronteras. He has poems in the recent poetry anthologies Notes of Light and Dark: Southwestern Aubades and Nocturnes (Dos Gatos Press) and Alaska Literary Field Guide (Mountaineers Books).