Denison, Julia

Martha O. Adams studied cello from second grade through college, giving rise to the musicality of her writing. A teacher much of her life in schools, at home raising four children, or in churches, her poetry springs from roots in Ohio, Kansas, Illinois and Connecticut. Her tree of poems has flourished long in the North Carolina mountains, bearing winter fruit in the Florida Keys. She has two other collections of poems: "What Your Heart Needs to Know," 2008, and "Peeling the Rind," 2000, both published by House of Myrrth. Her Readers' Theater Play poem, "She Rises Through the Sickle Moon," has