While You Blue-step

Still Available on Amazon Contemporary poet, published internationally, Mary Belardi Erickson has been partial to reading and writing poetry since her childhood in Concord Township, Dodge County, Minnesota. She received a vigorous education in literature and composition at Augsburg College, Drake University, and Purdue University. These were the nomadic years for her: living and working in cities, studying and teaching in universities. The 1990s found her returning to a country setting, Hayes Township, Swift County, Minnesota. Her poems are now available in online and print journals. She was nominated for Dancz Books Best of the Web 2010. For “As a leaf,” she received 2nd place in the 2009 Numinous Magazine Poetry Prize, New Zealand. Her work appears in Sephyrus Press No Fresh Cut Flowers: Afterlife Anthology and Silver Boomer Books’ From the Porch Swing: Memories of Our Grandparents. Her e-chapbook, Back-stepping Between Two Bridges, is at victorianvioletpress.com, and her website is marybelardierickson.com. Paperback: 48 pages Publisher: Kelsay Books/Aldrich Press (April 13, 2012)