Pelletiere’s poems convey a visceral sense of the poet’s harrowing recovery from brain injury after a car – truck accident that altered her experience of both body and language.

Marcia Pelletiere is a poet, musician/composer, and interdisciplinary artist. Her most recent book is A Crown of Hornets, published by Four Way Books in 2019. Her first book, Miracle with Roasted Hens, was released in 2011, and she has also released a 2-CD set of her poems set to music by over 25 diverse musicians, Little Noises (Saf’lini Music, 2004). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Amygdala, DMQ Review, Alaska Quarterly, Outsiders (anthology), and Milkweed, among others.