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Mare Heron Hake reads "Litany Ending with a Taste of Nectar" by Allen Braden

Poet Mare Heron Hake with her canine companion
Mare Heron Hake
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Mare Heron Hake
Poet Mare Heron Hake with her canine companion

"In the spirit abandoning the body, / wherever there is sorrow, lives what saves us."

Mare Heron Hake is a poet of the South Salish Sea region, also known as Puget Sound, in Washington State. Until recently, Hake was poetry editor, co-owner, and co-publisher for Tahoma Literary Review when her care-giving responsibilities took precedence. Recent work has appeared in Gyroscope Review's The Crone Issue, and as a finalist for Terrain.org's annual poetry contest judged by Ross Gay.

Her two books, published mid-pandemic and without a public celebration, are SurvivalEye (Arroyo Seco Press) and Passages (Xlibris). Both are available through Amazon.com. If you've made it this far and are still reading, she wants you to know that poetry matters because of people just like you. Cheers.