Mari Pack

Mari Pack is a poet, essayist, copywriter, and radio producer from the outskirts of Washington, D.C. She earned an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 2013, and promptly abandoned the ivory tower to work for a social justice nonprofit in Israel. Now the editor of Wavelength, her work has been published in Quail Bell Magazine, The Huffington Post, and The Establishment, among others.

“Caracas”, “The Milky Way as Path to the Otherworld” and “Mirrorland”

Figurative language is the essence of poetry, but its timbre is varied from poem to poem—“energetic,” “vital,” “arousing” are descriptors in Mari Pack’s poetry. See “The Milky Way As Path to the Other World”: “a life of too many sugar syrups/meat caught in a blender, coughing up/nothing but dust –/high pitched notes/ shattering in round, operatic soprano holes.”

Issue 10, February 2018

Mari Pack

Mari Pack is a poet, essayist, copywriter, and radio producer from the outskirts of Washington, D.C. She earned an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 2013, and promptly abandoned the ivory tower to work for a social justice nonprofit in Israel. Now the editor of Wavelength, her work has been published in Quail Bell Magazine, The Huffington Post, and The Establishment, among others.

“Caracas”, “The Milky Way as Path to the Otherworld” and “Mirrorland”

Figurative language is the essence of poetry, but its timbre is varied from poem to poem—“energetic,” “vital,” “arousing” are descriptors in Mari Pack’s poetry. See “The Milky Way As Path to the Other World”: “a life of too many sugar syrups/meat caught in a blender, coughing up/nothing but dust –/high pitched notes/ shattering in round, operatic soprano holes.”

Issue 10, February 2018

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