Marjorie Tesser's Books
Once upon a time, there was a fairy tale character who didn’t believe her story. So, she changed it...
The Magic Feather challenges the easy assumptions of fairy tales and other well-known stories. A witch may be a witch, but has she no heart, no hunger? In these poems, the characters may be fierce or funny, rebellious or rueful, but they refuse to be fictitious. They...
"Marjorie Tesser’s first book is a riot, a concept, a poem you can play and play with.
Beginning from comments solicited at a Suggestion Box at the Bowery Poetry Club,
using those metapoems to conceive both the book-as-card-game motif (roll over,
Surrealism!) and the fill-in-the-blanks of the cards themselves, she slowly builds a
breathing inner life through the cards’...
The Mom Egg is an annual collection of short fiction, prose, poetry, and drawings by cutting-edge mom-artists.
Featured in this edition are prize-winning poet Sharon Dolin's wry "To Worry, A Wallow"; the exuberant prose "Marry Yourself," by Joy Rose, pink-haired lead singer of Housewives on Prozac; Caribbean-American poet Cheryl Boyce Taylor's poignant "...
About Marjorie
Marjorie Tesser is the author of THE IMPORTANT THING IS...Card Game, a poetry chapbook in the form of a game (Firewheel Editions 2010); it was the winner of the 2009 Firewheel Chapbook Award, and of The Magic Feather, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in...
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Causes Marjorie Tesser Supports
Bowery Arts and Science
Four Way Books
World Food Program
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation