"This
site is dedicated to the memory of Carrie Campbell Alston, Mary Barnet’s first book, The New American/Selected
Poems followed four chapbooks, including Orchidia and Landscape. She was
the Featured Writer in a special edition of Poet magazine. Her poetry has
appeared in Crossroads, Gusto, New Worlds Unlimited, The New Jersey Poetry Society
Anthology, Funky Dog Publishing, Recursive Angel, The Greenwich Village
Gazette, The Poem Factory, Numbat, The Pittsburgh Review, and elsewhere. Mary has
read in Judson Church and Grace Church, and the Figaro Cafe, all in
Greenwich Village, and the Avanti Gallery in Manhattan, as well as with the Saturday
Afternoon Poets in libraries in New
Jersey . She read at and
directed a Seminar at a New Jersey Poetry Society Convention. She is
founder, and chief editor of PoetryMagazine.com and produces internet poetry
films with Richard Schiff, her husband. Mary’s work has been reviewed by Adam Donaldson Powell who says it “represents the tradition of Americana – both re-visited and updated.” Powell has also stated That “many of these poems are carefully tailored pearls that could only have been written by a mature artist.” JB Stillwater of Casa de Snapdragon publishers calls her work “intelligent and stunning poetry”. She comments that her poetry “weaves her own images of her beautiful homeland into her poetry as only a lover of life can do” and says her work conveys the“values that our country was founded upon”. Grace Cavalieri has said she “is a light to poets and the world...” All in all, Mary Barnet represents the “New American” writer. Always the free agent, she has never aligned herself with movements or groups, preferring to remain as uninfluenced by anything more than she is her own vision, and her muse as well as her own independently arrived at very positive philosophy. As a poet and patriot who traces her ancestry to early America, Mary Barnet, 56, believes in America as a nation whose very 'core' is built on Freedom of Speech, Assembly, and Religion. PoetryMagazine.com is a formal quarterly publication that harkens to the new electronic era and the huge audience now available to poets that did not exist when distribution of poetry relied on small paper pamphlets and a few elite magazines. Mary also founded www.The-Manhattanite.com on the Internet, a repository of short fiction, where such prominent international writers as Elisha Porat are presented, as well as American authors of note. Three of Mary's own children's stories, with illustrations by her husband Richard Schiff, are available on the Internet. Mary is the daughter of artist Mary Sinclair and painter Will Barnet. Grace Cavalieri, Named Poet of the Millennium Mary Barnet, who is Senior Editor and founder of http://www.PoetryMagazine.com and http://www.The-Manhattanite.com . Editorial by Dr. Krishna Srinivas from International Poets, March 1995 Mary Barnet , is a name to reckon with in the firmament of contemporary world poetry today. She has established a comfortable place as a shining star in the galaxy of world poets. The uniqueness about Mary is, she is a poet with a difference. She is a poet by inclination and artist by temperament. She is highly sensitive, pragmatic, philosophical and metaphysical in her poetic expression and highly meaningful in her social and humanitarian concerns. Her imagery is mindblowing. Her symbolism is baffling and multidimensional. She hails from a very distinguished family of artists, and she has given to the parnassian world very superb and pensive poems, worth remembering for generations to come. Hence the editorial board takes pride in bringing out this special number...There is an underlying honesty and integrity of language, of emotion, of form in her poetry. She has a natural feel for language. Her expression is lucid, facile and spontaneous. Editorial, 1995 Wife of artist, publisher, & puppeteer, social
activist & film-maker Richard
Schiff, "Mary Barnet's craftsmanship is perfect and her language is simple,
direct, lucid and lilting...with her facile, magical, eloquent and vibrating verses. Her
poetry is rich with verbal ecstasy, confessional exuberance, visual beauty and imagistic
delicacy.. She is contemplative and descriptive like Frost and Sylvia Plath.
Mary's
existential and surrealistic concerns are like - Auden and Baudelaire. In her
spontaneity
and symbolic beauty, she is like Keats, Yeats and Rimbaud. She celebrates man and his
inner psyche. She contemplates on human behavior, nature and [the] universe....Mary
Barnet, like
other significant poets, rises above the confines of a generation...Poetry lovers all over
the world will be overwhelmed by going through her fine, forceful and facile poems,"
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