In the Present Tense: Portraits of My Father

Still Available on Amazon Myrna Stone is the author of three previous full-length books of poems, The Casanova Chronicles (Etruscan Press, 2010) which was a Finalist for the 2011 Ohioana Book of the Year Award in Poetry, How Else to Love the World (Browser Books Publishing, 2007) and The Art of Loss (Michigan State University Press, 2001) which earned for her the 2001 Ohio Poet of the Year Award. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Boulevard, River Styx, Crab Orchard Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Boston Review and Quarterly West, and in nine anthologies, including Beloved On the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow Press, 2009) and Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse (Chatto & Windus, Random House, London, 2001). Her poems have also been featured on both Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She is the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships in Poetry, a Full Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, and the 2002 Dr. O. Marvin Lewis Poetry