Description
Postcards from the Lilac City
by Mary Ellen Talley
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-317-4
2020
Mary Ellen Talley was born and raised in Spokane, Washington, the Lilac City, and then migrated to Seattle where she and her husband raised their two children. She earned degrees at the University of Washington and worked for many years as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) in Seattle area public schools.
Her poems have been published in numerous journals including Raven Chronicles, Banshee, What Rough Beast, Flatbush Review and Ekphrastic Review, as well as in six anthologies, among which are All We Can Hold and Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workplace. Her poetry has received two Pushcart Nominations. She reviews for several journals including Compulsive Reader and Asheville Poetry Review.
Esther Helfgott (verified owner) –
Postcards made me laugh and cry. You will strike gold if you open it. In Lilac City, the poet teaches and sings. Her story resonates
with anyone who drove her teacher-mom to work in a car with the butterfly out of place, and with those of us who didn’t. This book of twenty-six poems is a love story to the author’s family and to the city she grew up in, Spokane, Washington.