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Retired after thirty years working as a hospice nurse, Maryann Hurtt has also been a cook, museum guide, social worker, bus girl, and writer. She is especially passionate about environmental issues and spent twenty years researching her Once Upon a Tar Creek Mining for Voices book. Her poetry has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of Net awards. She savors stories of resilience as she hikes, bikes, reads, and writes in Wisconsin's Kettle Moraine, then wanders unfamiliar places.
Hurtt's poems are the work of a caregiver, a nurturer, a poet that sees in the world those same offerings of care and attentiveness brought to the senses in the common scenes of everyday life. -Aaron Abeyta, former Poet Laureate of Colorado's Western Slope This collection considers the ability to find wholeness from broken bits, solace in grief, and sincere joy in the wonderous blossoms offered to us each day, if only we take the time to notice. -Laura Pritchett, winner of the PEN USA Award in Fiction Plunge into Hurtt's mysteries, where pain and beauty are equally precious, as each needs the other to heal and be whole. The book proves again and again that the broken can still bloom. -Kim Stafford, Oregon Poet Laureate 2018-2020 Hurtt's poems become acts of faith that life, even at its end, is ""still full of promise."" -Margaret Rozga, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2019-2020 Beneath these minimalist poems are whole worlds of feelings. -Benjamin P. Myers, Oklahoma Poet Laureate 2015 Get a copy of Broken Blossoms for yourself, and another for someone who needs a little tenderness. -Donna Hilbert, author of Threnody Broken Blossoms is a tender walk through transformative experience. -Debra Magpie Earling, author of The Lost Journals of Sacajewea Hurtt finds the healing balm, the connection, and the knowledge that ""we carry on / even as we ghost away"" and gifts it to us in striking images that only the most observant of poets can conjure. -Brenda Cárdenas, Milwaukee Poet Laureate 2010-2012
