Discipline: Literature – poetry

Mary Higgins

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Albuquerque, NM
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004
Mary Rising Higgins (1944-2007) taught public school in Albuquerque 25 years, earned both a B.S. degree in 1970 and an M.A. in English (with distinction) in 1988 at the University of New Mexico, becoming a master teacher in 1993. After retiring from teaching in 1995, she focused on a second career as a poet. In less than a decade she published six books of poems, including red tables (La Alameda Press, 1999), OCLOCK (Potes & Poets Press, 2000), locus Tides (Potes & Poets Press, 2002), and Cliff Tides (Singing Horse Press, 2005). According to Jennifer Bartlett, she should be considered a major innovator. Her work is taught in classes at the University of New Mexico, University of Indiana in Fort Wayne, Columbia University, and at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Studios

Schelling

Mary Higgins worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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