Marsha Howland has been writing poems since she was in elementary school. She’s fond of saying we’re all lucky that none of those verses survived. (One has lasted since high school.)
She graduated from Wellesley College in 1973, having majored in English literature with a concentration in the seventeenth century. Not long after, she became a sports reporter at a newspaper on the North Shore of Boston.
After a career in writing, editing, and communications, Marsha returned to her first love, poetry. Her poems have been published in Beyond Queer Words, 11th Edition; Fathers, In Fragments (Beyond Words Press); Half and One; The Gramercy Review; The Bluebird Word; The Ravens Perch; the moon issue of The Black and White poetry series; The American Journal of Nursing; and Waves, the online anthology of A Room of Her Own (AROHO).
As a senior at Wellesley, Marsha won the college’s Academy of American Poets prize. Also at Wellesley, she had the privilege and joy of studying with award-winning poets David Ferry and Frank Bidart.
Her responsibilities in life’s journey include instantly meeting the needs of two elder cats, Jem and Scout. And occasionally writing poems about birds.
Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (October 5, 2026)