"This
site is dedicated to the memory of Carrie Campbell Alston, 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 credits her Mom and Dad's love, guidance, and lessons in life for her first interest in poetry. But most especially, she knows that any successes she might find in the wide world of poetry, as well as publishing, can only be credited to the patient love and supportive assistance she always receives from her husband, the multi-talented Richard Schiff. Producer & Poet Mary Barnet "s husband Richard Schiff's paintings are in the Whitney Collection, as well as The Jerusalem Museum of Fine Art. Freeheld the film for which Mr. Schiff receives thanks : 'Freeheld' was honored in 2007 at The Sun Dance Film Festival and is nominated for an Academy Award. 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,"
Mary completed her degree at Pace University and did additional graduate work at The New School University (at that time known as The New School for Social Research), both in New York City. Mary Barnet has been published internationally since the 1960's. She has traveled the world extensively in pursuit of her muse. Mary first studied poetry with Barbara A. Holland in NYC. She attended a Master Class taught by Allan Ginsburg. She has also studied sculpture at The Art Students League of New York. She is the author of 5 books of poetry, among them Orchidia, Landscape, Dad's Shoes, and The New American. 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. Mary read her poetry at Grace Church in New York City, as well as at The Figaro Cafe, in Greenwich Village, NYC both in the 1970's. She has more recently read with "The Saturday Afternoon Poets," and in New York at the Baggott Inn, on West Third Street in Greenwich Village, as well as other spaces. 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.
Mary Barnet's most recent book, 'The New American
: Selected Poems by Mary Barnet, ' is
available now at
http://www.cyberwit.net/marybarnet.htm 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. Links to three of Mary's own children's stories, with illustrations by her husband Richard Schiff.
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