Mary-Sherman Willis’ poems and reviews have appeared in the New Republic, The Plum Review, the Hudson Review, the Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Archipelago.org, Poet Lore, Beltway, Gargoyle, and the Southern Poetry Review. In July 2008 her poem “The Laughter of Women” appeared in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry syndicated newspaper column. Her poems have been anthologized in Family Pictures (CapitalFest 2007) and Not What I Expected, the Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood (Paycock Press 2007). A short story appeared in Electric Grace (Paycock Press 2007). An essay on revising a sonnet appeared in Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press, 2008). She has spent residencies at the VCCA and MacDowell; in 2008, she was Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference and a fellow at Bread Loaf in 2012.
Mary-Sherman Willis
Studios
Wood
Mary-Sherman Willis worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…