Delmarva Today: 9-11-20

On today’s Delmarva Today, my guest is poet Nancy Mitchell. Nancy is the Poet Laureate of the City of Salisbury, Maryland and is also a former professor at Salisbury University.  She has published extensively, and is a 2012 Pushcart Prize winner. Nancy is also Associate Editor of Special Features for Plume, an online poetry magazine. Nancy was on the program a few months back and we discussed the excellent poetry in her book, The Out-of-Body Shop. There were a number of prose poems, personal portraits really, we didn’t get a chance to talk about.  So I invited Nancy back to discuss these poems, and one in particular, “The One I Called.”

This prose poem, almost a fable, is about a woman who comes to the Eastern Shore of Maryland with her three children to escape an abusive marriage and construct a new life for herself. “The one she called” for help offers an unexpected surprise.

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