Forgotten Ground Regained
Maryann Corbett is an American poet, winner of the Lyric Memorial Award and the Richard Wilbur Award, and of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize for her translation of the alliterative Old English poem, Deor, which was published in 2009 edition of The Evansville Review. She has published a series of collections featuring alliterative verse and many other forms, including Breath Control (2012), Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter (2013), Mid Evil (2015), Street View (2017), In Code (2020), and The O In the Air (2023).
Her alliterative poems include:
- The Birds of Ancient Battlefields Visit the Suburbs in Breath Control (first publshed in The Raintown Review)
- "Cold Case" in Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter
- "Riddle 40" and "Riddle 52" in In Code
- "Spoonspell" in First Things and Street View
- "Overture" in The O in the Air
- Suburban Samsara in the Alabama Literary Review
- From Third Storm Riddle Hurricane in Kin Poetry Journal
- To the Postal Carrier, about that Railing on Terrain.org